Euroleague Barcelona scratches in extra time an agonizing victory against Unics Kazan
This time there was no place for another impossible comeback. The
Baskonia
hand a inspiradísimo
Rokas Giedaritis
(20 points, 25 valuation), perfectly accompanied by
Wade Baldwin, Matt Costello, Simone Fontecchio
and
Steven Enoch,
punished harshly the
club
and sentenced to a raw defeat and unmitigated (94-75). On the Barça side, only
Nikola Mirotic
(19 points, 20
PIR
),
Nicolás Laprovittola, Rokas Jokubaitis,
a little lurching, and
Sertac Sanli
lived up to the expectations of the ever demanding
Sarunas Jasikevicius.
Bad time to hesitate.
"Embarrassing," the Lithuanian snapped before the cameras as soon as the match ended.
Nothing foreshadowed the outcome at the start.
Baskonia, who entered the match as the third-to-last place in the
Euroleague,
and Barça, who did so as leader, starred in a very tight first quarter in which, in the end, only by three points, the victory was for the Catalans (20 -2. 3).
There
the inspiration of Laprovittola had a lot to do,
shielded in this case by Mirotic and Sanli.
On the local side, while, Giedraitis, Baldwin and Granger were the main responsible for the team that incidentally returned to lead David Gil to remain firmly in the game.
Things did not start well for Vitoria in the second quarter, but very soon the figure of Matt Costello, vital in this period, would emerge to strike the first blow on the local table. Baskonia, with a 16-0 run in which Michigan's team,
scoring 11 points in this second period,
had a lot to do with it
,
took advantage of the Barcelona players' apparent blackout in attack to go into halftime with a six-point advantage in the luminous (40-34). Those of Jasikevicius, capable of scoring only 11 points, could only respond timidly to the local barrage to minimize a distance that reached 10 points.
The worst for the Catalans,
however, would come after the break. Baskonia, absolutely
lethal in the triples in the third quarter,
hand in hand, above all, with a Giedraitis who met again with his best version and a Fontecchio who was also very plugged in, punished Barça harshly with an
incontestable 34-20 partial.
To the people of Vitoria, simply everything came out. The visitors, on the other hand, despite the fact that they recovered some sensations in attack, the tremendous level of energy exhibited by a rival was able to them, who, in addition, knew how to take advantage of the urgencies to score from those of Jasikevicius to add even more salt in the game. wound.
The duel reached the last quarter completely decided.
Baskonia, far from being carried away by complacency, maintained the level of demand to give up the final score by the minimum (20-21), despite the fact that they
came to leave by 26 on the scoreboard,
and finally take a revitalizing victory by 94-75 against a Barça that, in this way, has seen its winning streak broken in the worst possible way and thus says goodbye to the year with a bitter aftertaste.
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