Zoran Dragic, KRKA win EuroChallenge

KRKA Novo Mesto launched a stirring comeback late in the fourth quarter and beat Lokomotiv Kuban to win the EuroChallenge in Ostend, Belgium, on Sunday.

Trailing by eight with 4:14 remaining, the Slovenian club reeled off 16 unanswered points and ended up winning 83-77.

Christopher Booker, who ignited the run with a three-ball, finished with a team-high 20 points while Goran Ikonic was named MVP of the EuroChallenge Final Four.

Ikonic had scored 24 of his 26 points in the fourth quarter to lead KRKA to a come-from-behind triumph over hosts BC Telenet Oostende on Friday and he had 12 points, five assists and three rebounds against Lokomotiv.

KRKA led for much of the contest against Lokomotiv on Sunday but faced their biggest deficit after Alexey Surovtsev hit a shot from the arc to give the Russian side a 75-67 lead with 4:14 to play.

Booker, who had been his team’s star performer in the game, went immediately to the other end and hit a three-ball.

After Jeremiah Massey took a quick attempt from behind the three-point line and missed, KRKA hit them with a counter-attack that saw a closely-guarded Ikonic pass up a three and instead drive in for a lay-up.

Even when KRKA missed shots, they fought like lions to get the ball back in the game-winning run.

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