An intractable Bonn receives the visiting threat of BAXI Manresa
The Germans are unbeaten since the second match of the BCL and the Bages team have won the last five matches as a visitor
-Telekom Baskets Bonn have won their last nine BCL games and will attempt to become the third team winning 10 games in a row in the competition (Monaco 14, Lenovo Tenerife 12); they have been trailing by more than two points in only one of their last five BCL games, it was in the reverse fixture against BAXI Manresa where they were trailing by six points.
-BAXI Manresa have won their last five away games in the BCL, including the four they played this season; four of those five wins ended up with margins of three points or fewer.
-Telekom Baskets Bonn have scored 42.7 points per game in the second half, more than any team in the BCL this term; they have a positive differential of 7.3 points per game in the second half, best in the league.
-Javontae Hawkins scored 20 points and made five assists in his first BCL game with Telekom Baskets Bonn last week against Rytas Vilnius; he never made 5+ assists and scored 20+ points only once in his 12 BCL games this season with Limoges CSP, but this game with 20+ points was precisely against BAXI Manresa in December 2022 (21pts).
-Among the players with more than three appearances in the BCL this season, Manresa’s Dani Pérez is the only one to have made 5+ assists in each of his games (9 games); however he failed to score in his last three BCL appearances after scoring in 28 of his previous 30 games.