Euroleague
day 18
Red Star
59 79
Finalized
Real Madrid
Real Madrid found the way in time against Red Star and won a victory that confirmed Chus Mateo's team on one of the most difficult pitches in Europe.
The 59-79 final score hides the hard time the Whites had at Pionir against Dusko Ivanovic's team, who were ahead in the third quarter (42-38), but ended up giving up with a 8-22 run. in the last 10 minutes.
The triumph places Madrid as the leader of the Euroleague along with Monaco, waiting for what Barcelona does this Wednesday.
Baskonia lost the opportunity to join the whites at the top of the table after conceding their second consecutive defeat in the Euroleague, something unusual this season, against Bayern in Munich (92-79).
Real Madrid had time for everything during their visit to Pionir Belgrade.
He began determined to hit the table.
Then he lost his pulse and nerves consumed the team, which let go of a 13-point lead until finishing behind in the third quarter.
But the reaction came, led by an immense Tavares (17 points, 12 rebounds, three assists and four blocks) and a grown Musa (19 points, six rebounds and one block) and they erased Red Star from the floor.
There was even a special reunion with old friends.
The exiled Campazzo, who watched the game from the stands, went down at halftime and at the end of the game to hug his former teammates.
Tavares and Musa lead @RMBasketball in Belgrade!
Highlights... pic.twitter.com/4Mk2tCSkOF
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El Pionir was a boiler that squeezed beautifully after his team had been very unwise in the first quarter (16-25).
Madrid was a colossus in the paint and floated with Llull, El Chacho and Musa on the outside.
In a jiffy, +13 for the whites (17-31) after a 2+1 action from the Bosnian.
Ivanovic then called his team, rearranged the pieces, and handcuffed Madrid with three fundamental pillars: Nedovic's three-pointers (4 of the first 5), Markovic's hands (7 assists at halftime) and Petrusev's strength (15 of his 17 points came in the second and third quarters).
The
Big Three
of the Serbs ignited the stands, which roared as their team closed the gap.
Madrid came ahead at the break by a hair's breadth (34-38) and was prey to the inertia with which Red Star arrived, who began the second half with an 8-0 run (42-38) that made them jump up to to Campazzo.
Madrid seemed lost, with many fouls in attack that prevented them from cutting the gap, and the defense was leaking everywhere.
The game was a war, with the two teams fighting each ball with great intensity.
In the heat of battle, the Real Madrid generals stepped forward and roused the troops.
Musa and Tavares tied (47-47) in a somewhat hasty arreón but that served to get the whites back into the game.
With the Bosnian and the Caveverdean in command, Madrid got back together, improved their percentages, and gradually silenced the crowd with a 2-15 run, to reach the end of the third quarter 51-57.
After seeing the ears of the wolf, Madrid did not stop pressing and did not let go of command of the game again.
The last quarter was a review with which they left Red Star practically nothing to seal a bulky victory and put Euroleague leaders to sleep.
Baskonia runs out of energy
Baskonia lacked defense in many phases, and energy in the second half, to match Bayern in the game, which ended with unusual shooting percentages -58.3% in triples-, 14 of 37, which shot towards victory, based on , above all, in an intense defense that the people from Vitoria did not know how to penetrate.
Winston and Hunter led a team that acted in choral fashion.
Among the people from Vitoria, Howard did what he could, but it wasn't enough.
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— Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) January 10, 2023
The first quarter was almost a defensive joke for Baskonia, who conceded 34 points, a scandal.
The triples flew for the German team as the beer runs at the Munich fair.
Each attempt was a basket.
The Bavarian team only missed one, but they also picked up the rebound, tried again and Hunter scored, also from three.
The festival was not amusing to Joan Peñarroya, who saw from the bench the deficiencies of his team, his lack of concentration.
Although he played a decent quarter in attack, Baskonia lacked everything.
The team from Vitoria improved in the second ten minutes before the despair of the histrionic Trinchieri.
With the best adjusted defense and Howard's spark, who found inspiration for a few moments, Baskonia managed to keep Bayern clean for four minutes, and with two consecutive three-pointers they were able to come within one point (34-33).
But it was not the day of the Baskonia.
After the effort to close the gap, Bayern reacted.
With a very well worked defense, he took the game back to his ground.
With some extraordinary shooting percentages, the German team buried any attempt to revive Vitoria.
Losses occurred on the visiting side.
At halftime, after a more even period, the difference had only been cut by two points (52-44).
Bayern only added, in twenty minutes, two points less than in the forty of the first leg at the Buesa.
With much less energy than in previous days, Baskonia was unable to react after the talk in the locker room, and with 3.23m left to go in the third quarter, the gap widened to 17 points (68-51), and In addition, with the feeling that returning from the tunnel into which the team from Vitoria had entered was almost impossible, because Bayern responded to each good attacking action with a three-pointer from any position.
When Peñarroya saw that it wasn't enough, already in the last quarter, he sat down Howard, hit on one leg, and Henry, who for the first time had been left without scoring in a Euroleague game.
At least, Kurucs and Dani Díez kept up their game and managed to reduce the final deficit to 13 points (92-79).
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