New Year’s “party” with μένη guest Barcelona for Baskonia! Despite the fact that they lined up with a service coach (since Spahia is in quarantine), the Basques made an impressive appearance and crushed the Catalans (94-75).
Six home players -who went up to 7-11- had a double-digit number of points, leading Gendraitis (20 points), Inoc (13 points, 10 rebounds), Costello (13 points, 10 rebounds) and Baldwin (16 points, 8 assists).
On the other, the Yasikevitsios team suffered its first defeat after 9 consecutive victories in the tournament, but will make a change of time at the top (15-3). Mirotic (19 points) and Laprovitola (12 points, 7 assists) were saved from the wreck of the “blaugrana”.
The match
Barcelona started better and with pluralism in scoring, he took a small lead (6-9 in 3 ‘). Nevertheless, Basconia found a rhythm and went ahead (13-12 in 5 ‘). The derby continued in the next minutes of the first period, with the guests closing the ten minutes better (20-23).
The team of Yassikevitsios escaped even more at the start of the 2nd period (20-26), however somewhere there it short-circuited aggressively, as a result of which it accepted a 16-0 series and found itself at -10 (36-26 in 18 ‘). Mirotic took over “Blaugrana”, but Costello was unstoppable for the Basques, who finished the half with +6 (40-34).
It was the 3rd quarter performance for a role, with Basconia setting up… parties performing from everywhere. With Gendratis and Baldwin entering the equation, the hosts ran 14-4 and jumped to +18 (64-46 in 27 ‘), while the Barcelona players seemed to be in another stadium. The 3rd period ended with Hill’s team having “air” of 20 points (74-54).
The “feast” of the Basques continued in the first minutes of the 4th period, with Inok taking the baton from his teammates and bringing his team to +25 (82-57 in 32 ‘)! From there on, Yassikevitsius threw a white towel, throwing his “reserves” on the floor, as he accepted the fatality. The last minutes were procedural, with the hosts comfortably reaching the pink card (94-75).
The quarters: 20-23, 40-34, 74-54, 94-75.
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