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A pair of teams looking for their first win in Group A meet on Tuesday in Greece when AEK Athens hosts Brose Baskets Bamberg. AEK came up short 63-57 last week at Gran Canaria, while Brose Baskets were thrashed at home by SLUC Nancy 49-83. Bamberg hopes to have center Darren Fenn back in uniform for the game. Fenn missed last week's game due to illness. Without Fenn, Bamberg's only consistent performer was power forward K'Zell Wesson, who had 17 points – more than double the next closest contributor. Now Brose Baskets will be hungry not only to win, but to do it in a way that shows last week's performance was a fluke. AEK, which was led by 14 points each from forward Nestoras Kommatos and center Brent Scott, will also do all that it can to avoid an 0-2 start. Both teams had trouble keeping the ball in Week 1, as Brose Baskets turned the ball over 25 times and AEK did the same 22 times – the worst two performances of the entire ULEB Cup last week. Both teams will have to do more, as the responsibility falls upon point guards Sotirios Nikolaidis of AEK and De Juan Collins of Bamberg. Key for the visiting team will be the points it can get from its perimeter scorers, Adam Harrington and Vincent Yarborough. Nikos Vetoulas and Christos Tapoutis will need to match them for AEK. These two teams met each other twice last season in the Euroleague, with Bamberg winning both. Now this early-season European encounter carries just as much weight, if not more. Losing the first two games will put one of these teams behind the proverbial 8-ball in the race for a spot in the next round. That playoff mind-set should have a positive effect on the game, which promises to be a doozie.
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Roster
No. Player Country Pos. Height Age
4 ENSMINGER, CRISTOPHER United States Center 2.09 1973
5 HAUER, SAJMEN Germany Guard 1.93 1988
7 BETZ, SEBASTIAN Germany Forward 2.00 1985
9 ANDERSON, JERMAINE Canada Guard 1.89 1983
10 FENN, DARREN United States Center 2.08 1980
11 PAVIC, IVAN Germany Forward 2.00 1981
12 GARRETT, ROBERT Germany Guard 1.94 1977
14 OHLBRECHT, TIM Germany - 2.10 1988
15 COLLINS, DE JUAN United States Guard 1.88 1976
21 HARRINGTON, ADAM PHILIP United States Guard 1.93 1980
22 YARBROUGH, VINCENT United States Guard 2.04 1981
31 BEGLEY, TIMOTHY United States Guard 1.98 1983
44 WESSON, K´ZELL United States Forward 2.02 1977
Coach
BAUERMANN, DIRK Germany