Valencia believes and fights for it.
The “bats” prevailed 82-73 against Bayern Munich in the 22nd game of the Euroleague and reached their 5th consecutive victory in the competition, remaining in the orbit of the eight.
Despite the odds not being on their side at the moment, and the fact that they continue to face serious absences, Moubru’s side are fighting to pull off a turnaround.
THE Rendezvous with 14 points he was the leading scorer of the winners, while Jones had 11, with Arostegi and Prepelic scoring 10. On the losing side, Winston scored 22, had 5 rebounds and as many assists plus 3 turnovers. Gifai scored 14, both of which were the only double figures for the visitors.
The match
Hand in hand from the beginning the two teams, with the biggest difference being 10-6 with Kyle making an indirect three-pointer, with a basket and complementary rain, but also 12-8 with Jones at 04:11 before the end of the period. Gifai’s basket cut Bayern to 12-11 at 02:14, but Pradija and Webb kept the lead for Valencia (16-14) after Hunter’s basket.
The visitors took the lead at 06:04 before half time with Winston’s basket, while the same player brought it to +3 at 04:24 and Weiler-Bubb to +5 right after with free throws. With 1/2 shots and a triple on Jones’ caps, Valencia made it 25-25. Bayern had the lead for much of the 2nd period, but the Arostegi in exhalation with a three-pointer he wrote 33-32 in favor of the home team.
Better start for Trinchieri’s team in the 3rd period, with Winston starting hot, making it 33-37 with five straight points. Radebo with a basket put Valencia in the lead at 07:06, but Walden and Bonga put Bayern up +4 (47-51) at 02:56. Valencia made it 52-51 with Arosteghi putting the “bats” ahead again, while after an hour Valencia went to +5 with the same player scoring (58-53).
With Prepelic reaching 7 points with a basket from outside the 6.75 m. Valencia made it 64-56 and 66-58 at 07:59. His team Moubru having “hot” Evans, escaped to +15 at 07:28. Bayern began to lose touch on the score there, while Kyle made it 75-58 at 06:11.
From then on there was no looking back for Valencia or otherwise there was no comeback for Bayern, who were consistently trailing by double digits. Only in the last two minutes did it fall to single digits, with Winston cutting it to single digits (79-70), reaching 19 points. He did the same with an indirect three-pointer for 82-73 with a minute left, and that was the final score.
The quarters: 16-14, 33-32, 61-56, 82-73
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