Valencia Basket was defeated by Monaco, 90-79in a match where the regularity of Obradovic’s men was decisive to add a victory victory in the box. Those of Mumbrú, who did not lose hope of victory until the end of the stakethey did not take advantage of the defeats of Zalgiris and Baskonia in the fight to be in the top 8 of the Euroleague.
The stake started very even. Brown opened the scoring, although Bojan left the first mark with a triple. The Florida player saw the basket again, although Webb III, with a 2+1 He got the Spanish advantage in the light. Puerto and Jones gave the first maximum difference, +6, which forced Obradovic to stop the match. Blossomgame, with three consecutive points, brought the differences close to two, although Jones, from the free kick, did not fail to open the gap again, (12-16, min 7). The last bars of the first quarter, the clash entered into dynamics. The taronja managed to leave at +8, after the annotations of Claver and Jones, although Monaco woke up, and with a run of 8-0, tied the stake, (22-22, min 10).
In the second period, Valencia took oil from the outside game although the Monegasques they took advantage of the lack of forcefulness in defense of the taronja. The triples of Shannon Evans y Victor Claverwere answered with a great inside game from the locals, (30-30, min 13). Blossomgame the taronja despaired with nine points in five minutes, and Valencia had problems, both in the rebound and in scoring, and the locals took advantage of it to leave +6, (40-34, min 16). With the break close, Monaco felt comfortable on the court, and after a 10-0 run, the difference became +11. However, Mumbrú’s men woke up to reduce to +7, (48-41, min 20).
After going through the locker room, Valencia conceded a 10-0 run, and the problems with the third quarter, so common throughout the season, reappeared. A 2+1 from Puerto and two triples from Jones and Dublejvic managed to face the local power (63-50, min 25). However, the team improved at times in the second half of the third half. Mumbrú’s men were at -16, and with a great outside game, he managed to close the period at -7, (71-64, min 30).
Valencia maintained the good feelings at the start of the last half. Webb III, with a triple, narrowed the gap, although Monaco kept the scoring percentage high with a great game. However, Obradovic’s men increased the intensity in defense and Mumbrú’s men noticed it, since the team went without seeing a basket for more than 4 minutes (82-69, min 37). Despite the constant attempts to reduce the differences, the taronja could not and add the sixteenth defeat in the Euroleague of the season (90-79, min 40).
Datasheet:
90.- AS Monaco (22+26+23+): Okobo (12), Loyd (9), Blossomgame (14), Montejunas (6), Brown (10) -cinco titular- Moneke (-), Diallo (10), Ouattiara (6), Strazel (13) y Hall (10).
79.- Valencia Basket (22+19+23+10): Jones (17), Radebaugh (2), Port (11), Webb III (9), Dubljevic (15) – five starters – Hermannsson (-), Claver (8), Lopez-Arostegui (2), Evans (3) Harper (10) and Rivero (2).
