2024-01-05 22:56:46
With 23 points, 11 of them in the final five minutes, the center Jan Vesely led Barça’s comeback this Friday against a combative Baskonia (89-85)who led by eleven points at the beginning of the last quarter (62-73, min.33).
As already happened in Wednesday’s victory against Real Madrid (83-78)the Czech grew bigger in the decisive moment to ratify the reaction of the Catalan team, which had not had two wins in more than a month.
Parra and Parker, in tune
Despite Vesely’s final display, Barcelona’s reaction was spurred by Joel Parra (13 points and 5 rebounds) and Jabari Parker (17 and 6), that lifted a disoriented Barça after a bad third quarter. Despite the defeat, Baskonia stood up to the end, guided in attack by Markus Howard (21).
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If the first act ended with a choral exchange of baskets (24-23), the Barça team took advantage of Howard’s break at the beginning of the second round to open the gap thanks to defense, rebounding and offensive fluidity, under the direction of Laprovittola and with un Willy Hernangómez intractable in painting (34-25, min.15).
When the Baskonia was thickest, Sedekerskis and Moneke They kept the disadvantage below double digits, a margin with which the rest (47-42) after Miller-McIntyre ended the first half with a dunk at the buzzer. Hernangómez (14) and Howard (11), the top scorers.
More intensity
The Vitorian team returned more intense from the locker room and soon came back through penetrations and counterattacks, a drift that caused the Grimau timeout (51-55, min.24). Aggressive in their assists, marking and dividing balls, Baskonia dried up a Barça that unsuccessfully insisted on searching for Kalinic in the post.
The Catalan team entered the final quarter in tow, with no answers to the talent of Howard and Miller-McIntyre in one-on-one, and the verticality of Moneke. Two triples in a row Parker and Parra woke up the Palau Blaugrana and changed the momentum of the match, which between them and Vesely, differential at both ends of the court, returned to the starting box (78-78, min.36).
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Con eight consecutive points, The Czech completed Barça’s comeback (84-82, min.38), which due to lack of aim, tightened the defense on Howard and Miller-McIntyre. Vesely seemed to score from the free throw line, but after Howard scored a three-pointer and Parra added two more points, Baskonia had a last attack with 11 seconds on the clock. Moneke crashed his triple attempt onto the board and Vesely, after capturing the rebound, made it 89-85.
Datasheet:
89. Barça (24+23+15+27): Satoransky (10), Brizuela (2), Kalinic (8), Parker (17), Vesely (23) -starting team-, Laprovittola (-), Hernangómez (16), Parra (13) and Paulí (-).
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85. Baskonia (23+19+26+17): Howard (21), Miller-McIntyre (10), Raieste (-), Sedekerskis (14), Costello (11), Ten (2), Moneke (9). , Marinkovic (7), Diop (2), Chiozza (2) and Kotsar (7).
Partials: 24-23, 23-19, 15-26, 27-17.
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