Blossomgame and Monaco stopped Baskonia’s streak!

With Blossongheim grabbing the rebound and nailing the 2”, Monaco defeated Baskonia 77-75 at the “Buessa Arena” for the tenth game of the EuroLeague and “broke” their streak of four consecutive victories under Dusko Ivanovic , with the French rising to 6-4 and in fourth place along with Panathinaikos and Olympiakos and the Basques falling to 5-5 and marginally in the privileged eight.

With the lead swinging in the first half and Saša Obradović’s men leading +11 in the fourth period, the home side went on a run to level with Howard at 6′, but it was the last phase to hand the LNB runners-up victory .

Leading the winners was James with 28 points and 4/7 three-pointers, followed by Diallo with 13 points. For the Basques, Howard stood out with 18, Marinkovic with 15 and Sendekerskis with 13 points.

The match

The lead changed at the start of the match and James’ three-pointer made it 3-7 for the Monegasques. An 8-0 run by the Basques with back-to-back 3-pointers made it 11-7, but a 5-0 run by the French made it 11-12 and the new scoring rotation. Brown’s 3-pointer made it 19-19 at the end of the first quarter.

The derby and constant lead changes continued at the start of the second period, but a 4-0 run by Monaco made it 21-25 for Saša Obradović’s men. James’ three-pointer made it 28-31 and he maintained +1 to +3 for Monaco. With a personal 4-0 run, Miller-McIntyre made it 36-35 at the conclusion of the first half. The Basques had 5/6 shots and 18 rebounds and the French 4/4 shots and 20 rebounds.

The consecutive three-pointers and the individual actions of James at the beginning of the third period kept +1 to +4 for the Monegasques. Brown brought +7 for Monaco, but there Marinkovic responded with a personal run of 5-0 for -2 for Dusko Ivanovic’s men. James’ two consecutive 3-pointers made it 46-48 to 46-54, with the American guard making 4/6 of his 6.75. Chioza led an 8-0 run for the Basques to tie the game at 54-54. That’s where Diallo spoke with two consecutive three-pointers for Monaco and 57-62 and finally 59-62 at the end of the quarter.

James and Motejunas led a 9-0 run for the Germans at the start of the fourth quarter to make it 62-73. Baskonia answered with 5-0 for -6, but there the failure on both sides, despite the many rebounds back and forth, maintained the 67-73 for a long time. This was “broken” by Marinkovic’s three-pointer for 70-73 at 2’18”. Blossongame made it 70-75 at 1’40”. James’ unsportsmanlike layup on Miller-McIntyre made it 72-75 at 56” and he missed a three-pointer in the next phase to be followed by Diallo at 22”.

The latter fouled Howard and the American guard equalized with a three-pointer in the 6th minute. On the last drive, James missed a 3-pointer, but Blossomgame grabbed the rebound and nailed it to make it 75-77, with Moneke’s long 3-pointer never finding the target afterward.

The quarters: 19-16, 36-35, 59-62, 75-77

The statistics

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