Basketball Euroleague | Mirotic once again wears stripes against Zalgiris

The azulgranas added the victory, the 18th in 26 days, in one of the most placid parties who has recently lived in Europe and they did so based on an excellent performance by Mirotic, who has come out of the shadows and is once again showing off his stripes at the Palau. The Hispanic Montenegrin became the star of the evening with 28 points and a revitalizing factor for the Catalan team, which unceremoniously opened a gap against the former team of Jasikevicius and Jokubaitis and showed a good level in defense, which ended up obfuscating the Lithuanians.

Solid in defense, effective in attack

Zalgiris were able to hold their own in the first quarter, but then found themselves unable to keep up in a game in which they Barça put the direct with 27 points scored in the second quarter and 31 in the thirdwhich catapulted him on the scoreboard with advantages over twenty and facilitated victory.

Vesely, with some outstanding first minutes, put up with a hesitant Barça from the start. But the doubts lasted until the team understood that it was the night of Mirotic and he began to play at the level that is remembered, dragging his teammates, especially Satoransky, who delivered another complete performance.

The international power forward left actions of all kinds, long shots, penetrations, triples to go to halftime with 16 points, essential to comfortably close the first half (46-36). And at the restart, the Catalan superiority became more evident against Zalgiris, who had many problems finding their way to the hoop and who entered the last period (77-54) with no options, although they ended up reducing the penalty against to a Barça that, as was foreseeable, with a certain victory, ended up slowing down.