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Euroleague working day 30
Baskonia couldn’t win on Partizan’s torrid field in Belgrade. Always in tow, not too far away, but almost never very close, the Vitorian team took a step back in its aspirations to be among the best. Furthermore, in the last minutes they lost Sedekerskis, who after being injured in the first half, reappeared with five minutes remaining, and on a layup that he scored, after a counterattack, he fell on his left leg and suffered from the injury. previous illness with obvious signs of pain.
Ivanovic’s team is balancing its efforts to be among the best when the regular phase ends, and it has to look out of the corner of its eye at what happens on other fields when its results are not good. Nobody wants to repeat the bitter experience of the previous season, when after occupying positions of play off throughout the Euroleague, they lost that privilege with the defeat on the last day, so the plan is to win everything they can, and in Belgrade it didn’t happen. The final ovation from the Serbian field, after a competitive match, but always behind, does not score.
In fact, after a first half in which the Vitorian team lacked calmness to think about the best options, the approach to Partizan only occurred when Howard put his prodigious wrist in motion and scored, with twelve seconds remaining, a triple house brand that narrowed the differences to only two points (44-42). Partizan came onto the field much more in tune, and although Kaminsky, who started scoring eight points, was unplugged for a while, his team, under the baton of Punter and the scoring success of Caboclo (18 points), increased the distance as soon as it began. (58-48), and maintained it when Kaminsky got back on track (78-66).
Only in the last minutes did Baskonia get excited, when Howard, who had already shown his scoring genius throughout the game, chained two incredible baskets to get within just two points (85-83) with 39 seconds remaining. The aggressive defense of the Vitorians resulted in two Partizan turnovers and, for a moment, the Stark Arena stands fell silent.
“Here the atmosphere has a lot to do with it,” Ivanovic said at half-time while asking his men for restraint, and that was the case, as always, so the discouragement in the stands and on the field lasted very little, right until the last Serbian basket that It put the final figures on the scoreboard, and it complicates things somewhat for Baskonia, who will have to wake up in the remaining games of the regular phase.
Euroleague working day 30
In Germany, Real Madrid, leader, completed the procedure against Alba, bottom, in a less than brilliant match. The white team rested throughout the first half, went into half-time with a four-point deficit (40-36), and then reacted, little by little, without trying too hard, just due to the inertia of their figures’ drive. When Hezonja (22 points) started scoring, with Yabusele (17) following in his footsteps, and Campazzo distributing (6 assists), the game was fading for Alba. It is difficult for him to be able to cough against Madrid, even if Chus Mateo’s men play at half speed.
Datasheet
Stark Arena.
Partisan: Punter (18), Dozier (6), Ponitka (6), Kaminsky (20), Caboclo (18) –equipo inicial–, Avramovic (9), Koprivica (0), Smailagic (0), Nunnally (3), Trifunovic (2), Andjusic (3), Jaramaz (2).
Baskonia: Miller-Macintyre (4), Howard (26), Marinkovic (11), Sedekerskis (6), Kotsar (2), Raieste (0), Chiozza (2), Ten (0), Costello (13). , Theodore (4), Moneke (13), Rogkavopoulos (2).
Partials: 23-16, 21-26, 25-18, 18-23.
Referees: Lottermoser, Vilius y Vyklicky.