He had to wait four matches and a total of three weeks to get the first pink card of the season in the Euroleague Virtus Bologna!
In the end, Luka Banki’s team managed on Wednesday night (23/10) to beat the “Beogradska Arena” in Belgrade, winning in a thriller match with a score 70-69 of Partizan for the 5th matchday of the competition!
It was the Serbians who had the upper hand on the scoreboard for most of the match, however, some mistakes and some poor attacking in the final allowed the Italians to escape with a great double thanks to his brace Clyburn at 12” before the finale. Of course, the hosts had the opportunity with both Lundberg (5”) and Dilikina in the exhalation to take the match, but both did not find a goal for the hosts.
Leading for the winners was Clyburn with 27 points, with Cordinier to perform very well with 12 points and 10 rebounds. For Zelimir Obradovic’s team, which fell to 2-3, stood out Tyreek Jones with 20 points and 6 rebounds.
The match:
With the power of headquarters, the They were partisans got into the game very well and thanks to an excellent start by Brown and Marinkovic, they led 13-5 at 4′. A short time later, Tyreek Jones’ foul shot went up at +9 (16-7) the difference, with the Virtus Bologna to answer with the three-pointers of Clyburn and Morgan, but also the two-pointer of the former, reducing the difference to the minimum value (16-15) at 8′. In the last two minutes, the Serbians played good defense and kept the Italians to zero, with Tyreek Jones writing 20-15 of the period with four personal points.
Tyrique Jones rises high for a put-back slam!??@PartizanBC #FlightTime I @TurkishAirlines pic.twitter.com/1Hdai6zrVi
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Despite the fact that the hosts found a score with his three-pointer Pokushevsky and Karlik Jones’ two-pointer, Virtus was able to tie the match for 25-25 at 15′thanks to baskets by Tucker and Clyburn. In the last half of the second period, o Lundberg came out ahead for the Serbs and with 7 personal points in the last period of the quarter, he helped his team go to the locker room ahead with score 37-32.
From Lundberg’s goal-foul, Partizan escaped again at +8 (40-32) at its beginnings third period. However, once again Luca Bunchi’s side had the answer and with six successive points from Cordiniere, it was reduced to 2 (40-38) at 22′. With Tyreek Jones and Marinkovic on fire, one on the Italian racket and the other behind 6.75m, the Serbs went back to +9 (52-43) in the 25th minute, before Clyburn and Cordine responded for Virtus and close the quarter with the score at 61-57.
He just can’t stop attacking the rim??
Back2back BIG dunks from Tyrique Jones????#MotorolaMagicMoments I @Moto pic.twitter.com/XOR1quJeHb
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Somehow, the fourth and final period turned into a state of… blood and sand! Thanks to her excellent and dynamic defense, as well as the six shots on target – from the 9 points to that point – the Virtues took the lead after an hour for 66-65 in the 36th minute! With Lundberg’s three-pointer, Partizan made it 68-66, only for Clyburn to come with two big shots to make it 70-69 with 12 seconds before the final. In the last attack Lundberg sent the ball out, with Partizan however stealing the rebound and Dilikina in stoppage time marking the iron, with Virtus leaving with great double (69-70).
The quarters: 20-15, 37-32, 61-57, 69-70.
See here the statistics of the match.
Source: Sport Fm
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