Basketball, Euroleague: Barcelona bury Baskonia, CSKA stop Maccabi, Efes gets up in Berlin

Fresh off the MVP award of the month for October, Nikola Mirotic continues to hammer: 25 points without errors to the shot (4/4 from two, 4/4 from three) and 8 rebounds for 37 evaluation in just 18 minutes. Double digit (11) also for Brandon Davies e Nicolas Laprovittola (positive in replacing Higgins in the starting-five), while Nick Calathes touches the double-double with 9 points and 8 assists. Baskonia, on the other hand, has nothing to save, starting from the attitude up to the technical level. The only acute comes from Steven Enoch, who deludes himself by nailing two consecutive dunks for an ephemeral 0-4 in the first seconds of the game: he will end up with 22 points, 8 rebounds and 6 fouls suffered for 35 evaluation, his highest statistics in the still very short career in the Euroleague, collected, however, in an evening of collective tragedy. Ours is also negative Simone Fontecchio, stopped at just 4 points in 20 minutes.

With the entire roster finally available, l’Anadolu Efes Istanbul (3-6) flex your muscles again by burying Alba Berlin (3-6) under a very heavy 90-63. The game splits in the second period (break of 14-31 for the 35-51 of the long interval) and sees the European champions continue to vent the enormous burden of frustration accumulated in these first weeks of the season to the siren. Vasilije Micic goes crazy off the bench (19 points, 9 assists, 4 rebounds, 4 steals), supported by Kruno Simon (18) and the excellent impact of Tibor Pleiss (16 + 8 rebounds). Alba has 13 points from Oscar da Silva.

The success in the sprint closes the picture of the evening 74-72 dell’Unics Win (4-5) on the field of Panathinaikos Athens (2-7): decides a basket of Lorenzo Brown (13 points, 8 rebounds) at 19 “from the siren. On the shields too Isaiah Canaan e Andrey Vorontsevich (15 points each), while Marco Often closes with 5 points and an assist in 12 ‘from the bench. For Panathinaikos you don’t need a super Georgios Papagiannis by 14 points and 17 rebounds (7 offensive), his career-high.

CSKA Mosca-Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv 74-73

• CSKA: Lundberg 14, Shved 9, Kurbanov 2, Shengelia 4, Bolomboy 12; Hackett 6, Antonov 4, Clyburn 7, Faried 6, Grigonis 10. N.e.: Lopatin, Ivlev. All.: Itoudis.
• Maccabi: Wilbekin 9, Evans 8, Taylor 4, Williams 20, Zizic 16; Caloiaro 3, Reynolds 4, Sorkin 5, Nunnally 6, Ziv. N.e.: Dibartolomeo, Lessort. All.: Sfairopoulos.

Red Star mts Belgrade-LDLC Asvel Villeurbanne 73-67

• Red Star: Wolters 4, Dobric 8, Kalinic 22, Davidovac, Kuzmic 4; Mitrovic 4, Lazic 5, Hollins 6, Simonovic 6, Ivanovic 14. No: Zirbes, Uskokovic. All .: Radonjic.
• Asvel: Okobo 16, Jones 14, Kahudi 6, Howard 7, Fall 11; Lacombe 6, Osetkowski 7, Strazel, Antetokounmpo. Ne: Houinsou. All .: Parker.

Alba Berlino-Anadolu Efes Istanbul 63-90

• Alba: Lo 9, Eriksson 8, Da Silva 13, Olinde 2, Sikma 8; Smith 2, Delow 5, Schneider, Thiemann 3, sheet 3, Zoosman 2, Lammers 8. All .: Gonzalez.
• Ephesus: Larkin 8, Bryant 2, Simon 18, Singleton, Dunston 2; Beaubois 9, Balbay, Moerman 9, Pleiss 16, Micic 19, Anderson, Petrusev 7. All.: Ataman.

Panathinaikos Opap Atene-Unics Kazan 72-74

• Panathinaikos: Bochoridis, Macon 14, Papapetrou 10, White 7, Papagiannis 14; Perry 10, Kaselakis 2, Floyd 2, Nedovic, Evans 4, Sant-Roos 9. No: Ferrell. All .: Priftis.
• Unics: L. Brown 13, Hezonja 9, Vorontsevich 15, J. Brown 2, Brantley; Spissu 5, Canaan 15, Uzinskii, Jekiri 8, Mayo 7. Ne: Klimenko, Zaitcev. All .: Perasovic.

FC Barcelona-Bitci Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz 93-67

• Barcelona: Calathes 9, Laprovittola 11, Hayes-Davies 2, Mirotic 25, Sanli 8; Davies 11, Martinez 3, Smits 4, Orihuela 2, Kuric 8, Jokubaitis 8, Caicedo 2. All .: Jasikevicius.
• Baskonia: Granger 4, Giedraitis 14, Fontecchio 4, Sedekerskis 2, Enoch 22; L. Peters 4, Baldwin 3, Marinkovic 4, Costello 8, Nnoko, Kurucs 2. N.e.: Barreca. All.: Ivanovic.