{"id":1058,"date":"2014-06-21T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2014-06-21T23:28:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T21:28:21","slug":"project-44-stun-hosts-with-amazing-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/2014\/06\/21\/project-44-stun-hosts-with-amazing-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 44 Stun Hosts With Amazing Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">The Saturday evening game between the Latvian side <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Kraukli<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\"> and Russian side <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Project 44<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\"> got the ball rolling in the ESBA Promo Championship in Liepaja, as the visitors from Moscow marked the opening game with a remarkable comeback win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Despite trailing by as many as 20 points in the first half, the guests turned the game upside down to triumph <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><b>73-61<\/b><\/span> in the opening game of the M40\/45 category and the whole tournament as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Kraukli<\/strong> <\/span>were led by <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Armands Alksnis<\/span> <\/strong>in the early going, who had collected a double-double already midway through the second quarter. Leading 39-19, the Latvian team seemed well in control of the game, but an 8-0 run for <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Project 44<\/span><\/strong> saw the gap melt to 12 points by the halftime break.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An inspired Russian side continued their comeback in the third quarter, going on an impressive 16-0 run to turn a 45-34 deficit into a 50-45 advantage in a matter of six minutes. During the stretch, <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Sergey Ivanov<\/strong> <\/span>scored nine points, while <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Alexander Kuznetsov<\/strong><\/span> added seven.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Having gained the control of the game, <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Project 44<\/strong><\/span> continued to punish their opponents with outside shooting and good hustle inside, sailing home with the win relatively comfortably after <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Kraukli<\/strong><\/span> experienced an unthinkable collapse in the second half.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Kuznetsov<\/strong> <\/span>led all scorers with 31 points, while <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Ivanov<\/strong><\/span> added a very solid double-double of 21 points and 10 rebounds. The only other player in double-digits for <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Project 44<\/strong><\/span> was <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Vladimir Gaikovich<\/strong><\/span> with 10 points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Kraukli<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Viktors Kulackovskis<\/strong><\/span> had 25 points, <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Alksnis<\/strong> <\/span>scored 18 points and grabbed 23 rebounds, with <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Armands Cernevskis<\/strong><\/span> adding seven points for the losing side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Highlights from the game:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ESBA Promo Championship Opening Game Highlights\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zAsn9xxcOJc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saturday evening game between the Latvian side Kraukli and Russian side Project 44 got the ball rolling in the ESBA Promo Championship in Liepaja, as the visitors from Moscow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}