• Real Madrid: Before Zalgiris, first defeat of the season

The only consolation that Baskonia had left on her visit to Istanbul was to attend a historic day, even if she was a victim. Nando de Colo starred before the Vitorian team one of the largest individual exhibitions in the history of the competition. 39 points (12/15 in T2, 3/6 in T3 and 6/7 in TL), practically half of the 87 that Fenerbahce achieved, that install the French base among the best scorers ever in this competition and that they left only two of the absolute record, set by Brown, Kambala, Myers and Ford at 41. Too much for a Baskonia that chains their fourth straight loss. [87-80: Narration and statistics]

Only seven men added more points in a Euroleague match (four in regular phase) and nobody scored so many since Bobby Brown's 41 years ago almost seven years ago , precisely against the Fenerbahce that Thursday saved his life. In total, 44 valuation credits, the highest record of the last decade in regular phase. Numbers that speak for themselves of the exhibition offered by De Colo, who left the parquet with his usual calm and moderation, as if this Thursday had been another game for him. Few murderers as silent as he is in Europe.

The entire game, evidently, was marked by De Colo's scoring waste. Baskonia can hardly be reproached, because despite everything he managed to hold on until the final minutes, confirming that his balance of this start of the season (two wins and five losses) is much worse than his game indicates. For the Catalans it could not be an obligation to win in Istanbul and even less before such a demon that came to the rescue of a Fenerbahce with much to improve for the future.

There was no more to see the beginning, with De Colo on the bench, and Baskonia dominating the stage. Only the low strength of Eric under the board prevented the points of Shields and Shengelia and the collective defense allowed him to build an interesting partial with which to fill the pantry in those first minutes. The departure of the French served to stop Baskonia and match the match. In the second quarter, Perasovic's were quite thick, with Polonara as the only offensive reference, but they benefited from the bad decisions of Fenerbahce in attack. Only De Colo added more than one field basket in the first half in the Turkish ranks.

After the break (39-36), which the Frenchman came with 22 points in 14 minutes, the film changed. Vesely and Sloukas emerged to enrich Obradovic's attack, while Henry assumed leadership in Baskonia's attack, with seven points in that set. They held the Barça until an 8-0 midway through the third quarter placed Fenerbahce forever ahead. The Perasovic, they are in the blood, did not give up and came to have the tie to a point (63-62) at the dawn of the last quarter. A threat that Kalinic and Muhammed resolved with two consecutive triples. From then on, everything went to De Colo balls so he could continue to gain weight on his historical statistics while buckling the local triumph.

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