Efes Istanbul snatched the derby from the Turkish metropolis on Thursday evening on the floor of Fenerbahçe during the 12th day of Euroleague (89-84). The reigning European champion, who had had a very difficult start to the season, confirms his recovery with a fourth victory in a row which brings him back to tenth place between the two French teams, Asvel (9th) and Monaco (11th ). Conversely, his local rival continues his downfall, beaten for the fourth time in a row and now 16th.
The “Fener” and Nando De Colo (14 pts, 5 rebounds, 5 pd but only 1/5 to 3 pts) thought however to hold the good end with 12 points in advance at the beginning of the fourth quarter. But Shane Larkin, off the bench, was a hit by scoring 11 of his 25 points (4/8 behind the arc) in the last ten minutes, with 3 assists and 2 steals.
Rodrigue Beaubois and Adrien Moerman were both in Efes’ starting five. The Guadeloupe recorded 7 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists for an evaluation of 17 and his friend signed 6 points and 4 rebounds but 3 stray balls.
The walk of the Blues of Real
Real Madrid and its blue colony walked to Vitoria (88-60). Fabien Causeur (13 pts), Thomas Heurtel (12 pts, 9 pts), Vincent Poirier (8 pts, 6 rebounds) and Guerschon Yabusele (7 pts, 6 rebounds, 3 pd) accumulated 45% of the points of the Spanish club, solid leader of the regular season.
CSKA Moscow also returned a badly started situation against Bayern Munich of Darrun Hilliard (28 pts), winning with a breath thanks to two baskets from Will Clyburn (17 pts in total) in the last thirty seconds (77 -74). The Russian formation goes back to 6th place.
In the last two matches of the evening, Zenith Saint Petersburg and Maccabi Tel-Aviv (without Mathias Lessort, left on the bench by his coach), who were 3rd and 5th in the standings, both made a bad deal in falling among poorly classified, Panathinaikos (64-70) and Alba Berlin (86-91). The pivot of “Pana” Georgios Papagiannis (2.20 m) delivered a match of giant, author of 18 points to 8/9 shooting and 13 rebounds for an evaluation of 31.
Monaco and Asvel will face each other on Friday (8 p.m.) in the Principality.
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