2024-01-26 20:58:00
He Barça He woke up too late and lost this Friday on the court of the EA7 Emporio Armani Milan (74-70), burdened by a bad first half (45-25, m. 19) that could not even amend the recital by Jan Vesely, who scored 28 points and he was too alone in attack.
Under the watchful eye of the injured Nikola Miroticpresent in the front row, the Catalan team reacted in the third quarter after a first half in which he was denied in attack and ineffective in defense, but he lacked aim to certify the comeback (5 of 20 in triples) against a successful Shavon Shields (23 points).
Controversial arbitration
Likewise, the Barça team finished upset with refereeing in a match without excessive friction in which Nico Laprovittola was eliminated with five fouls and Dario Brizuela ejected for two consecutive technicals, both actions in the fourth quarter. The block of Roger Grimau suffered its seventh defeat in the last nine away games.
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Barça led with minimal advantages in a thick start thanks to the baskets of vesely, Kalinic y Parker (7-8, m. 5), until it got stuck. Failed in the interior shot (5 of 13) and hasty in the execution, he allowed easy baskets on layups and rebounds, which fueled Armani Milan’s escape (23-12) as much as the free throws (8 of 11).
Willy Hernangomez He opened the second quarter with a couple of baskets, which ended a drought of more than five minutes without scoring, but the Barça rush did not continue. Denied in attack, with the insufficient exception of Vesely (11 points at halftime), Grimau’s men were unable to tighten up the defense.
Shields and Napier, lethal
Poythress did damage to the paint and Hall exploded his change of pace in repeated penetrations, although those in charge of breaking the match were Shields y Napier, that with successive actions of individual talent skyrocketed local income.
Parker scored a few seconds before the break Barça’s first triple, who went to the locker room with 8 losses and some poor shooting figures (9 of 25 and 1 of 4), which contrasted with Armani Milan’s ability to score near the rim (14 of 22) despite its poor exterior accuracy (3 of 12).
Mutation after the break
The Barça reaction came in third quarterspurred by the puntos de Jokubaitis y Parker. More solid in defense and confident in rebounding, the Catalan team tightened the score with eight points in a row from Vesely (51-44, m. 25), but lacked success to complete the comeback before half an hour of play (57- 49).
Los errors in triples released undermined the morale of Barça, which lost Laprovittola with five fouls (m. 34) and Brizuela for two consecutive techniques (m. 37), but still recovered with four points from Vesely and two triples from Satoransky and Parker (69 -64, m. 38).
Despite the referees, who punished a technical foul against grimacethe Barça team pushed until the end and Kalinic, with five points in a row, reduced the deficit to two points with seven seconds left, but Shields certified Barcelona’s defeat from the free throw line (74-70).
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74 – EA7 Emporio Armani Milan (23+24+10+17): Napier (9), Hall (8), Shields (23), Melli (5), Poythress (10) -equipo inicial-, McGruder (11), Voigtmann (6), Flaccadori (2), Hines (-), Ricci (-), Lo (-).
70 – Barça (12+16+21+21): Satoransky (6), Brizuela (2), Kalinic, (9), Parker (11), Vesely (28) -starting team-, Da Silva (-), Laprovittola (-), Hernangómez (10), Jokubaitis (4) and Parra (-).
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