Humiliation in Milan for the tragic Real!

The descent continues for the Realafter it became dust and crumbled in Milan from the Armani with 85-76 and fell to 3-5 with their 3rd consecutive loss (lost during last week to Olympiacos and Maccabi) and remained for the 5th game this year without a win away from home in as many matches!

Yes, his team Chus Mateo found himself losing in the 35th minute with a 22-point difference (80-58). Great protagonist for the Italians, the Nenad Dimitrievichwho had 22 points (4/6 2-pointers, 4/8 3-pointers, 2/2 shots), while Jacques LeDaywho was responsible for launching the difference even to +22 (80-58 at 35′), had 17 points and 8 rebounds. For Real, who had a tragic three-point percentage with 8/30 and 17 assists with 15 errors, the pretenses lasted Ibaka and Hezonia with 13 points each.

The match

The game started with both teams tied for the score and with 2:16 left in the first quarter, they were tied at 14-14. The Italians with a burst, which brought a partial score of 10-2, starring Kozer, who had 5 points in this period, managed to open the gap and take an eight-point lead at the end of the first part of the match with 24- 16.

H Armani will send the difference to +15 with a new 7-0 run this time in the 13th minute of the match. Real responded with a 9-0 run to cut it to 33-27 with two of his shots Enyayejust before the halfway mark of the second quarter. Armani, however, led by Dimitrijevic, who was the absolute star of the first half, managed to keep the difference at a price, ranging from 5 to 12 points, to come with its own basket of 47-40 , which was also the score in the first half, in favor of Italians.

Real would cut it to 47-45 at the start of the third period, but again with tough defense and with Mirotic and LeDay to find solutions from the free throw line, to open with a 6-0 run the difference again to +6. Real continued to be misguided and unable to get easy points, o Dimitrievich they were there in the crucial moments and Armani maintained the difference in the price it closed in the 2nd period as well, with 62-55.

With two three-pointers by LeDay and one shot by Mirotic, the Armani increases the difference to +14 at 32′ (69-55). THE Brooks extends the streak to 10-0 in the 4th quarter. Essentially, the match ends there, after Ibaka makes it 71-58, for another 7-0 to come for the Italians who, with another three-pointer by LeDay, make it 78-58. 5 :59 before the end. The difference reached +22 with 80-58, so that in the final the “queen” reduced the extent of the defeat and lowered the difference to twelve before the final was written 85-76 with a three-pointer by Campacho.

The quarters: 24-16, 47-40, 62-55, 85-76

Detailed match statistics here