Virtus Bologna 75 – Bara 92
A brilliant Abrines in the second quarter and a Mirotic with much better feelings than in the last duels were decisive for a team that was a gale until the last period.
Bara, after some last few very rushed games, finally met again with its neatest version in Europe. And he did it at the expense of a Virtus that he practically ran over in the second and third quarters to finally let him get some air and make things up a bit in the last period. In the victory of the group that he directs Saruns Jasikevicius What stood out, above all, was an imperial lex Abrines in the second 10 minutes, who finished the match with 16 points and a valuation of 18 on his locker, and a Nikola Mirotic which without a doubt also transmitted much better sensations than in its last European appearances. His 17 points and his 21 rating points attest to this.
The more or less even first quarter (17-22) between Virtus and Bara, with Laprovittola and Mirotic as the brightest Catalans and Ismael Bako and Mam Jateh standing out a little above the rest on the Italian side gave way to a second devastating period for the Barcelona fans. Perhaps stung in their pride by the fact that the locals went a step further with respect to the first 10 minutes in their desire to close the gap, placing themselves in this case one away (23-24), Jasikevicius’s team he caused a blackout of his rival in attack and completed it by assaulting the rival basket with the knife between his teeth.
Perfectly supported by more than remarkable defensive work, just as the Lithuanian likes, heThe Barcelona fans had no mercy on the rival basket. After a few minutes of transition, in which no one seemed to see the ring clearly, Bara, with the 13 points achieved by a hyperactive Lex Abrines as their main argument, signed a 0-21 partial that allowed them to leave with a maximum advantage of 22 points (23-45) to end up standing at halftime 20 points above the light (27-47).
The Bara, far from resting on his laurels, continued to make blood in a third room in which Virtus It cost him God and help to get into the game. With an outstanding success in the triples and with Jokubaitis, in this case, shining a little more than the rest of his teammates, also well accompanied by occasional appearances by Kalinic, Higgins and Mirotic, the Catalans managed to accumulate a maximum difference of 37 points (31 -68) with a 4-21 run that got Scariolo on his nerves. In the final stretch, that’s right, the locals would cut the gap just a little thanks to a rush from Jaiteh as apparent as ultimately sterile.
The 35-point advantage with which the Catalans managed to stand in the last and final period (39-74) meant that, whether they wanted to or not, they ended up lifting the accelerator to a great extent. Above all, in the defensive facet. With this scenario, Virtus, finding success in the triples that they had missed a lot throughout the game, scored in the last half almost the same points that they had achieved throughout the rest of the duel. A luck in which he stood out very especially Marco Belinelli. Despite their apparent disconnection, which allowed the locals to finish the game by cutting Barcelona’s maximum advantage to 17 points (75-92), Jasikevicius’s team manages to reconcile with their neatest version in Europe just one week after storming the Cup.
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