Incredible Baskonia in Kaunas! Pablo Lasso’s team went to Lithuania from 5 losses in a row in Euroleague and managed to get a great “double”, defeating her Zalgiris 83-70 for the 12th game. In fact, this was the first away pink card of the Basques in this year’s tournament, in one of the most difficult fields!
Somehow, the guests took a significant “breather” in terms of scores and went up to 5-7. On the other hand, his team Andrea Trinchieri fell to 7-5 and is still in a good position, but he has 4 defeats in the last 5 games in the Euroleague and seems to have lost its impressive initial pace.
OR Baskonia came on strong and got away with +8 (11-19) early, but from that point until midway through the third quarter…it disappeared from the floor, leaving Zalgiris at +16 (57-41). Somewhere in there, the Basques ran one improbable partial score of 16-0 and tied the match (57-57), while overall they did impressive fourth quarter (13-31) resulting not only in winning, but also with a triumphant score.
It is characteristic that from the 57-41 with which his team took the lead Andrea Trinchieri 3:58 before the end of the third period, h Baskonia ran a 13-42 individual scorewith the hosts suffering an improbable black-out in the final stretch and losing a match that looked to be in their control.
THE Donda Hall who had a double-double with 14 points, 11 rebounds, o Chima Moneke who had 17 points, 5 rebounds and o Trent Forrest with 14 points they were the top three winners. Very influential and Nikos Rogavopoulos with 10 points (2/4 3-pointers), 4 rebounds, 2 assists. Of the losers, 19 points were scored by Lonnie Walker (but with 2/8 three-pointers), while 14 had o David Sirvidis and 11 o Allen Smilagic.
In the devil’s week that follows the Zalgris will play in Belgrade against Partizan (3/12, 21:30) and then host Efes in Kaunas (5/12, 20:00). OR Baskonia will face at its headquarters with Fenerbahce (3/12, 21:30), before going to Munich for the match with Bayern (5/12, 21:30).
The quarters: 17-19, 42-35, 57-52, 70-83
Detailed match statistics here
Source: Sport Fm
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