An exhibition of Pierria Henry was decisive so that Baskonia, with more suspense than promised the start of the match, inflicted Barça with his fourth defeat in the Euroleague. Those of Pesic were not enough with the awakening of Mirotic in the second part to end up taking the win, however much they came to overcome a difference of 21 points against and had a last triple, in the hands of Pierre Oriola , to take a triumph of which, seen the seen, was much more deserving the set that directs Dusko Ivanovic .

Barça met for many minutes with a perfect Baskonia storm in the Buesa Arena. The locals, tremendously motivated by the return home of Ivanovic, dominated the Catalans throughout a first part in which Mirotic, the great argument of the Barcelona players, was virtually unknown. He tried again and again, but his level of success was far from his best afternoons. The Vitorian team, hand in hand with a very involved Shengelia in the first 10 minutes and a brutal success from beyond the three-point line made it clear very soon that he was not going to allow the game to escape . The visitors, meanwhile, could only slightly make up things with triples from Delaney and Kuric , both in compromised positions, to take the game to a nevertheless clear 21-15 at the end of the first quarter.

Things, moreover, would get even worse for the Pesic team in the second period. The azulgrana, able to impose on Real Madrid by 20 points difference last Sunday at the Palau Blaugrana, saw how Baskonia came to score a maximum difference of 19 points in the final stretch of the first part. Again, his great success in the shot, especially in the triples, together with a Barca that tried to survive based on the blows of Davies and Delaney, allowed the Ivanovic team to send an iron fist over the parquet. Henry, in this case, was responsible for taking over from Shengelia as the most prominent player, while Mirotic woke up only occasionally from a lethargy that further condemned his options. Tampoc helped, of course, that the Montenegrin Hispanic was pointed to an unsportsmanlike one that contributed a little more to materialize the take-off of a Baskonia that would leave for rest with an even clearer advantage than in the first quarter (47-31).

The locals also returned from the break in style. To such an extent, they were able to leave by a difference of 21 points on the scoreboard at the start of the third quarter. Barça, however, coinciding largely with the awakening of Mirotic, managed to stop the bleeding and plant in the last and final period 11 points away from the premises (65-54). The great architect of the new arreón of those of Ivanovic would continue to be a Henry capable of stealing the ball from the Montenegrin Hispanic after a rebound and scoring a triple practically in their noses. Mirotic, at last, had gotten into a game in which Davies and Delaney, with Higgins absent from a flu, had taken care of rowing in a beautiful way to prevent Baskonia's differences from being completely decisive with many minutes to go .

Baskonia was of little use to begin the last and definitive period with Henry maintaining his particular exhibition on the track. He was going to have to suffer everything he had not suffered in the first three to win the victory. Gradually, Barça was able to cut the distances on the scoreboard until it was placed three points away at just less than four minutes to the end of the game (68-65) thanks to a 0-11 run for Barcelona players . Shengelia, with a new triple, however, would be responsible for putting back land in between for theirs to take the game to a final take and take in which Shields would complicate their lives by facilitating the Catalans to be placed two points away to finish saving the situation immediately with a new triple. Nothing could prevent, despite everything, that the Catalans were planted at the last minute with a tie on the scoreboard (74-74) only to see how Shengelia sentenced to practice the duel with a spectacular mate that killed the Barcelona reaction in the shore (76-74) no matter how much Ivanovic's had in a triple Oriola last the option to take the victory.

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