The Euroleague week came to an end today (Friday) with the last four games in the 31st round, excluding the meeting between Bayern Munich and Maccabi Tel Aviv.
In focus: the battle for second place, in which Panathinaikos defeated Barcelona.
The Red Star beat Bologna and helped Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Monaco beat Valencia after a thriller and Milan stopped Fenerbahce.
Red Star Belgrade - Virtus Bologna 79:94
The 96:81 loss to Zalgiris this week was Bologna's sixth in a row away from home.
Now came the seventh loss in a row, which definitely serves Maccabi Tel Aviv, because the Italians were close to the Yellows in the table with an identical balance of 17:30 on the eve of the cycle.
Nemanja Nadovic made up for the lack of the injured Iago dos Santos and was hot with 25 points and 7 assists.
The old and good Milos Teodosic starred with 11 and 9 assists for the Serbs, who lost a chance to qualify but it is very difficult to beat them at home.
Toku Shanglea led the way with 25 points before fouling out with five fouls.
Where Lundberg added 15 for the Italians, who continue to lose ground and deteriorate down the table.
A tough win over Valencia.
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Monaco - Valencia 78:79
A streak of eight victories was interrupted at the worst time for Monaco, who suffered a home defeat to Milan by 18 points in the quarterfinals and missed an opportunity to overtake Barcelona on the way to second place, when instead they dropped to fifth place from which they will not enjoy home advantage in the playoffs.
Valencia, on the other hand, stopped a streak of four losses at exactly the right moment, against Bayern Munich, which is one of its competitors for the tenth place, which leads to the playoffs.
As in Valencia's previous match, this time too she was caught in a big thriller and gave an appreciable fight, but the last word belonged to Mike James and his team.
James' penalty points also gave Monaco a comfortable lead of 70:77 with 1 minute and 23 seconds remaining.
But Valencia tightened up the defense and Chris Jones completed a 0:5 run from the free throw that shrunk to 77:75 with five seconds remaining.
Valencia was forced to foul, Hall stood up to the pressure and secured the victory.
James and Jaron Blossomgeim led the French with 17 points as a. Sami Ojila was on the other hand with 2, Chris Jones added 15 but it was only almost enough for a surprising victory for the Spanish, who are struggling with three, four more teams on the card The last one for playin.
Led an impressive comeback with a tremendous performance.
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Panathinaikos - Barcelona 81:89
The unpleasant loss at Fenerbahce did not cost Barcelona the loss of second place and now the one who takes it is Panathinaikos, who after 10 consecutive losses to Barcelona, finally beat the black sheep in a game where they trailed 40:24 in the second quarter.
But for this type of games, Panathinaikos signed Kostas Sloukas.
The veteran center single-handedly led a heroic comeback with a fine game of 18 points and 8 assists.
Kendrick Nan (22) and Mitoglou (19) enjoyed most of Sloukas' assists for the Greeks, who dismantled Barcelona 55:35 in the second half.
Willy Hernangomez and Jan Wesley scored 13 for Barca, which has looked very bad in the last month and is also unable to get Ricky Rubio involved, who was held to only four points and second place is in real danger.
The winning streak stopped.
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Olympia Milan - Fenerbahce 76:77
Milan returned home after snapping a six-game away losing streak with the surprise win in Monaco, knowing they must continue their positive momentum to keep their chances of qualifying for the play-offs and they did so against a red-hot Fenerbahce side who came into this game in top form after impressive wins over Barcelona, Valencia , Basconia and Spain's Real Madrid.
But against Italians it is probably more difficult for Charas, who gave Scotty Wilbkin unlimited credit to throw 16 three-pointers and he scored only five of them.
Yam Medar, on the other hand, was the only one who did not see a second of Parquet.
Wilvkin was actually the one who completed a big turnaround for Fener with a three-pointer that made it 68:69 for the Turks with 3:39 minutes left to go.
Godoric and Bibervic continued the momentum and made it 70:73, but then Mirotic's 3-pointer came from an offensive rebound.
Wilvkin missed two consecutive 3-pointers and Mirotic secured the victory from the line.
Niccolò Meli (17), Shabon Shields (15) and Mirotic (13) led the Italians who are strongly in the fight for the last ticket to the playoffs.
Scotty Wilvkin led the Turks with 15, but a horror show at the end with irresponsible three-pointers for Fener, who will probably fight to the end for second place with Barcelona, Panathinaikos and Monaco.
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