Summary clip of today's events in sports, 5.1 (Sport1)
The 17th round of the Euroleague continues tonight (Friday) with three games in addition to the match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Real Madrid.
European champions Anadolu Eps narrowly defeated the weak Villerban.
The improving Milan will host Olympiakos.
The Red Star with a difficult game at Valencia.
Drag Anadolu to a difficult victory (Photo: Reuters)
Anadolu Eps - Villerban 72:78
After the painful loss to Maccabi Tel Aviv, Anadolu returned to its home for a comfortable game on paper.
But the European champions have almost no easy games this season, certainly without Shane Larkin who did not play again after returning against Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Anadolu trailed throughout this game and opened the fourth quarter trailing 58:51.
But the host bit into the deficit and got as close as 66:65 thanks to a 3-pointer by Micic.
Clyburn completed a turnaround with two consecutive baskets.
Villerban lost her head, Micic buried another three-pointer and Clyburn's points from the line closed the matter and ensured that Eps would rise to a positive balance of 8:9.
Micic shined above everyone else with 22 points.
Will Clyburn added 15, most of them in the last quarter and Rodrigue Beauvois contributed 13 for the Turks who won but again did not impress.
Nando De Colo and David Lighty led the way with 12 not enough.
Olympiakos - Milan 66:82
In their previous EuroLeague match against arch-rivals Panathinaikos, Olympiakos was missing their best player and perhaps the entire plant this season - Sasha Wezenkov.
This did not prevent Mena from trampling the greens 71:95 with a tremendous show.
Tonight the Bulgarian returned to play and with him the Greeks looked great against a team that had very good momentum but collapsed against the murderous defense of the hosts who exploded with 15:27 already in the first quarter and stopped the Italians at only 6 points in the third quarter.
Olympiakos equaled Baskonia, Monaco and Barcelona with a record of 6:11 in the crowded top of the Euroleague.
The Italians far undersigned with a negative balance.
Alec Peters led the Greeks with 16 points, but it was the wonderful Kostas Sloukas who dished out 9 assists to go along with 8 points, as well as Wezenkov who had a solid game in his comeback.
Billy Barron led the way with just 12 points and was also 0-for-4 from beyond the arc.
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Valencia - Red Star Belgrade (21:30)
Even an early injury to Luca Valdosa, the best player, did not prevent the star from giving a show against Barcelona and being in the winning position in the previous round.
But a subsequent 3-pointer turned out to be illegal forcing overtime in which the Catalans scraped a victory.
The Serbs will try to come back to win in a critical game for them in the battle for the top 8 against a team that currently seems to have little chance of qualifying.
Valdosa is expected to be absent again as well as Facundo Campasu who did not receive permission to register and the one who will try to cover their absence is the excellent Nemanja Nadovic who is in good form.
Chris Jones returns to the hosts' squad, who have won their previous two home games in the factory, including Barcelona.
Euroleague 2022/23
Group
games
victories
draw
losses
baskets
points
1
Olympiakos Piraeus
17
11
0
6
1312-1473
28
2
in Ascona
17
11
0
6
1372-1460
28
3
Barcelona
17
11
0
6
1315-1365
28
4
Monaco
17
11
0
6
1395-1402
28
5
Real Madrid
16
10
0
6
1263-1344
26
6
Fenerbahce/Olkar
17
10
0
7
1335-1407
27
7
Maccabi Tel Aviv
16
9
0
7
1290-1304
25
8
Anadolu Zero
17
9
0
8
1317-1399
26
9
the red star
16
8
0
8
1258-1214
24
10
Partisan Belgrade
17
8
0
9
1444-1436
25
11
Zalgiris Kovna
17
8
0
9
1336-1292
25
12
Virtus Bologna
17
8
0
9
1373-1313
25
13
Valencia
16
7
0
9
1357-1300
23
14
Villerban
17
7
0
10
1337-1276
24
15
Bayern Munich
17
6
0
11
1329-1276
23
16
Panathenaic Athens
17
6
0
11
1411-1331
23
17
Milan
17
6
0
11
1296-1199
23
18
Alba Berlin
17
5
0
12
1434-1383
22
sport
basketball
Euroleague and European basketball
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