Serge Ibaka from the old days and Bayern’s triumph over Virtus!

Serge Ibaka produced a performance taken from his best years in the NBA and Bayern, despite the fact that the match did not start well, came to a comfortable victory against Virtus. The Spanish center had 24 points and 11 rebounds, having worthy supporters Francisco (13 points), Edwards and Booker from 12 points. Virtus surrendered in the last quarter, leading scorer Belinelli with 19. The Italian team surrendered in the last quarter, not scoring a single point in the last 5:23

With Belinelli first and Sengelia taking the baton later, having nine and eight points respectively, Virtus took the lead in the first quarter, to reach the difference, even +8 in their favor, a difference they maintained until the end of the first period, even giving a very high score, after scoring 28 points in the first quarter. On the German side, it was Bonga, who with five points of his own, kept the difference from going into double figures.

At 12′ Virtus will increase the difference to +12 with Miki to reach 20-32, while at 14′ the Italian team increased its distance to +14 with a basket by Dunston who had also reached eight points , relatively fast. However, with Ibaka as the leader, in the second half of the quarter and Bonga, a worthy supporter, they will collect the difference, to close the first part with a basket by the former ace of the Raptors at the minimum price of -2 with the experienced center, reaching them 15 points (44-46).

Now the match turned into a battle, between two ex-NBAers since Ibaka from May and Belinelli from the other, were the ones dragging the score for their teams in the 3rd period and it had many changes in the score, without anyone being able to get significant difference. Virtus will take the lead in the 29th minute with a basket and a foul by Belinelli with two (64-66), but there a short run by the Germans, who made it 6-0, found them closing for the first time in the match, leading for a period with 70-66, with Ibaka now reaching 22 points.

Ife Lundberg, will cut to the minimum price in the 32′, to 72-71, but somewhere in there, Bayern goes on a 9-0 run with Francisco and Gifai scoring five and four points respectively in this run, which gave air ten points to the German team, to lead now at 35′ with 81-71, while exactly halfway through the last period, Brankovic with a three-pointer will send the difference to +11, for 84-73. In essence, the match ended there, since from the 32nd minute onwards Bayern made a 16-2 run, to end the match without the Italians scoring a point in the last 5:23.

The quarters: 20-28, 44-46, 70-66, 90-76