• Classification 15th day

A tremendously effective Barça in defense, especially in the second quarter, found this time his best man in Adam Hanga to take a hard win against Bayern (67-77). The victory allows him to climb back on top of the Euroleague. He did not achieve the margin of 20 points or more that he needed to unseat Real Madrid from the first place, after the defeat of Anadolu Efes in Istanbul against CSKA (80-81). Nikola Mirotic, again, did not have his best afternoon in the scoring facet. Neither does Cory Higgins. But both, also again, would also be absolutely decisive to add a new triumph.

The Bayen tried and managed, in large part, to hold Barça's face in the first quarter. The men of Svetislav Pesic, however, managed to avoid at all times that the German team climbed their beards. Thanks, above all, to the good start of Higgins and Adam Hanga.

The Hungarian, precisely, would become the most prominent player with 10 points, 10 assists and five rebounds (23 valuation). Mirotic, meanwhile, starred in the first gray minutes, chaining several failures in seemingly candid shots. His awakening, already in the second period, would instead be decisive for takeoff (22-37).

The visitors, to the delight of Pesic, redoubled their efforts in defense and managed to ensure that Bayern failed to score even 10 points in a room in which Greg Monroe remained very disappeared. The former Barca Dedovic, meanwhile, had the dubious honor of standing as the worst of the first 20 minutes, closely followed by a Kyle Kuric completely denied in the triples.

Bayern managed to stop the bleeding from the perimeter. To such an extent, that he came to cut the differences to nine in the final stretch of the third quarter only to see how Higgins, less effective than in the first minutes, pushed his men to a 45-56 with which to face the last period.

Barça was not on this occasion the machine to make points that has ended up overwhelming so many rivals in Europe, but exhibited a very serious defensive capacity that would allow them a quiet outcome. A seriousness back that the Serbian technician, surely, would celebrate with vehemence in the locker room, no matter how much that meant the final defeat of the group that has his son Marko as general manager.

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