After starting yesterday, the 14th round of the Euroleague continues tonight (Friday) with four more games, with in focus – the intriguing meeting between Barcelona and Real Madrid, and also: Yuval Sussman and Tamir Blatt with Alba Berlin went on a visit to Panathinaikos. All the evening games in front of you:
Barcelona (2:12) – Real Madrid (3:11) 80:93
The (true) “classic” of basketball has been decided, unequivocally. Of the last ten meetings between the teams, the Catalans have achieved their seventh victory – and proved that unlike football, here their hand is still on the big top. By the way, Sharonas Jasikevicus’ team maintained the top spot in the Euroleague, remained undefeated at home and still with only two losses all season in the Euroleague.
The main game of the Euroleague evening brought together the first against the second in the table, but in this case – the advantage was never in doubt, and was on the side of Barcelona (almost) all the way. Already in the second quarter, Nikola Mirotic (tonight’s hero) opened a gap of 12 points – 35:47, and from there the gap also increased forward – Barça dominated the game unquestionably, leaving no room for doubt.
Mirotic finished the game with a great performance – 31 points, 10 rebounds (all on defense) and also squeezed out 9 fouls. Beside him, Brandon Davis excelled with an evening of one hundred percent from the field and 16 points, Nicola Laprobitola also contributed 16 of his own and Rokas Yukobaitis scored 12. On the side of Real? 11 by Fabian Kozer and Thomas Hartl (21), with 10 recorded for Nigel Williams-Goss, Walter Tavares and Sergio Yul.
Zalgiris (11: 3) – CSKA Moscow (5: 9) 73:51
In the game that opened the evening, the Russians did not pity the Lithuanians with a convincing victory, which is also the fourth in the last five games for the team of Dimitris Itudis. Zalgiris remained in last place, failing to continue the momentum from the win over Basconia in the previous round.
The game was decided, in fact, in the third quarter – which the guest finished with an advantage of 18 points, 37:59 – and has not looked back since. Zalgiris surrendered unconditionally, and CSKA traveled to an easy victory.
Nikola Milutinov led the visitors with 19 points and 12 rebounds, Alexei Sheved scored 17, Will Claiborne added 9. Josh Nibo finished as Zelgiris’ leading scorer with 11 points and 7 rebounds, Arthuras Milaknis and Tyler Cabano added 9 each. one.
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Monaco (9: 5) – Milan (5: 9) 71:65
The collapse in Etura Messina’s team stopped: After four consecutive losses in the Euroleague, the Italians returned from the island with an important victory and clung to Olympiacos and CSKA in third place with a balance of 9 wins and five losses. The host again did not receive a contribution from Mike James, From the floor after two minutes and losing a ball – when on the way out he again faced coach Zevzdan Mitrovic.
The Italians took the lead already in the first quarter, which they finished with a 12-point advantage – 14:26, and did not lose the gap to the end. Monaco are facing a fifth straight loss in the Euroleague, and are lagging behind in the table, 14th out of 18 teams. Sergio Rodriguez finished as the outstanding scorer with 13 points, Kyle Haynes scored 11 and Malcolm Delaney with 10. For the French, Paris Lee scored 19 points, 12 for Danilo Andjosic, Dwayne Bacon finished with 10.
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