Trailing early on, Peristeri bwin lost to Unicaja Malaga at Martin Carpena 64-81 in matchday three of the BCL’s first group to drop their record to 1-2, while the Spaniards went 3-0. and they maintained the absolute.
The Andalusians led by +18 in the second quarter and by +22 in the third, the “blue and yellow” reduced to -9, but they could not hold on and the difference reached the final +17.
Leading the winners were Jedovic, Sima with 11 and Ejim with 10 points. For the Greek team, Williams stood out with 12 and Ragland with 10 points.
The match
Peristeri bwin led 2-0 and 4-2, Malaga equalized with their right choices inside the Greek basket and the lead began to change for a couple of minutes. Etzim kept a small lead for the Andalusians then, where Perry with correct moves in the basket of Peristeri bwin made it 13-9 and Sima kept +2 with +4 then for the “greens”. Taylor’s three-pointer made it 20-13, Osetkovski took advantage of the mistakes of Vassilis Spanoulis’ players and Sima finished the first quarter at 26-15.
Diath brought +14 for Malaga at the start of the second quarter and Barreiro +15 for the hosts. The bad defense of the “blue and yellow” made it 37-19 for the Spaniards with Kalinoski’s three-pointer and Kravis made it 41-23. Down 44-26, Peristeri took advantage of Malaga’s lax defense and went on a 7-0 run to make it 44-33 at halftime. The hosts had 9/10 shots and 14 rebounds, while the visitors had 4/10 three-pointers and 22 rebounds.
Peristeri bwin went on a 5-0 run to start the third quarter and went down 44-38. Jedovic maintained +9 for the Andalusians, despite the three-pointers and most rebounds of the “blue and yellow”. Malaga responded with a 12-0 run with the polyphony of the regionals and reached 61-43 and Perry’s three-pointer made it 64-45 at the end of the quarter.
Barreiro led 67-48 at the start of the fourth period and Kravitz led 69-52 in Peristeri’s bwin attempt to reduce the score. At 73-55, a 5-0 run by Vassilis Spanoulis’ team cut it to 73-60 and Renfro’s shots to 74-62, so the difference went up and down to +12 to +14 for the home team, despite better percentages in shots and the three most rebounds, but the low percentages inside the field for the Greek team. Diath brought it 79-64 and Osetkowski’s shots made the final 81-64.
The quarters: 26-15, 44-33, 64-45, 81-64
The statistics
Source: Sport Fm
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