In a game like this Wednesday’s, the Baskonia I would have beaten anyone. They annihilated Barça, 94-71but they would have beaten Madrid, the Denver Nuggets and even Michael Jordan’s Bulls… Take this exaggeration as a demonstration that all Barça’s defects were virtues in Baskonia which completed one of the most rounded matches of his last years.
Few, very few times we will see Barça lose by 30 points. And so it was with 1:23 remaining (94-64). He finished with those 23 that summarize the superiority of the Vitorians in an almost perfect match.
The night started with a loud alarm that caused panic in Buesa. On the first play, which ended with a local basket, Howard went to the ground, injured in his ankle. All eyes on him because he is what Baskonia was missing with multiple casualties for this match (Rogkavopoulus, Mannion, Marinkovic…). But above all because it was Howard, the great objective of the Barça defense.
And once he recovered, his recital arrived. Howard finished with 26 points, eliminating all defensive strategies which Barça tried to do, in vain. Not one turned out well. He even lost a contact lens in a 2+1 that he recovered, put on and ended up converting the extra.
But it wasn’t just Howard’s game (more like Hogwarts). Miller-McIntyre had his best game as a baskonist. The hero of Piraeus, he was also one in Buesa with 20 points and triples of all colors. If he had shot blindfolded and with his back turned, he would have put it in too. And he also went Moneke’s party, extraordinary all the time and author of 19 points. And of Sedekerskis, who had 9 points and 12 rebounds and remains one of Ivanovic’s favorites. And of Costello, Díez (starting and playing a lot), Raieste, Chiozza… A Baskonia that was a cyclone. A coral cyclone
At Barça, except Da Silva at the beginning and Laprovittola in the third quarter, The image was very poor with no offensive or defensive response, neither by energy nor by conviction. It is true that they reacted a little at the beginning of the third quarter when they went down the advantage of 26 to 16 and they won that act with a 15-24, but to every push from Barça there was a greater response from a Baskonia completely convinced that today there was no team on Earth capable of beating them in Buesa.
Baskonia, in a match to frame, It certainly saves the Ivanovic effect in the Euroleague, which is already 3-0. As if it were a kind of Jekyll and Hide, the team is one in its European matches and a very different one when it plays in the Endesa League. In any case, the show he gave against Barça will be remembered for a long time.
Datasheet:
94 – Baskonia (26+29+15+24): Miller-McIntyre (20), Howard (26), Ten (5), Sedekerskis (9) and Costello (5) – the starting five – Raieste (-), Chiozza (4), Kotsar (6) and Moneke (19). . . . .
71 – Barcelona (18+11+24+18): Satoransky (6), Laprovittola (14), Kalinic (6), Da Silva (12) and Vesely (2) -starting five-, Hernangómez (7), Jokubaitis (8), Brizuela (2), Parra (-), Parker (2), Abrines (9) and Nnaji (-).
2023-11-15 21:44:04
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