Erickson returned and Alba Berlin found her … health! The 27-year-old German guard / forward returned to action after a month and the game of the premiere with Barcelona leading Jure Zdovτς’s team to the very important away victory 79-71 against Zalgiris in Lithuania.
A result with which Alba ended a negative series of two defeats, rising at 3-5 and 14th place. On the other hand, the Lithuanians failed for another match to get the first victory of the season, remaining in last position of the scoreboard with 0-8.
Top for the winners was Erickson with 16 points and 4 rebounds, while closely followed Da Silva and Lo with 15 and 9 points respectively. For Zalgiris, Cavanaugh and Strelnieks stood out, having 17 and 16 points, respectively.
The match
Explosive first ten minutes for the Germans who built solid foundations for the pink card from an early age. After a balanced first five minutes (6-7), Gonzalez’s team stepped on the “gas” and with an impressive series 12-0 shot the difference at +13 and 6-19 at 8 ‘, with the first period being completed with 10-22.
Alba continued to maintain the double-digit difference until in 17 ‘(26-37), mainly with the executive skill of Erickson and the creations of Lo. In the last part of the first half, however, the Caravan he took Zalgiris by the hand and with me 9 collected points gnawed the difference, closing at halftime at -4 and 37-41.
In fact, the whole of Jure Zdovch reduced the difference to its minimum price at the beginning of the third quarter (40-41). Alba’s reaction was not long in coming and with Da Silva taking his side off the attack, the visitors raised the difference again more than ten (43-54 in 27 ‘). Despite Strelnieks’s five points, the difference remained “high” at the end of ten minutes (52-62).
In the last period, Zalgiris tried to get back in the game, he reduced at 6 (58-64), however, some effortless mistakes on her part, but also the accuracy shown by the Germans at critical points of the match did not allow her to reduce further, with the end of the match finding the winner Alba Berlin with 79-71.
The quarters: 10-22, 37-41, 52-62, 71-79
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