MINUTE 25 (52-40)
Willy scores only one free throw. Barça’s defense continues to work quite well and forces bad shots from Partizan. Barça takes a bonus with 5:28 left in the quarter. Parra also scores only one of his free throws but it is his minute, as he steals a ball and hangs on the counterattack on an alley-oop from Punter’s pass.
MINUTE 24 (48-40)
Vesely retires after receiving a hit in defense, Willy enters. And another basket from Norris, now a semi-hook in penetration. 17-0 already, partial that Bonga cuts. Partizan cuts a little more with a triple from Marinkovic.
MINUTE 22 (46-35)
Punter resolves a thick attack from Barça to continue stretching the quarter, which is already 12-0 counting from the second quarter. And Norris’s triple stretches it to 15-0.
THE SECOND HALF STARTS
MINUTE 20 (41-35)
Barça seems to be picking up cruising speed, now Parra scores after crossing the zone. The Serbian attack begins to fail quite a bit. Punter scores two free throws and the quarter is now 10-0. Washington misses the long triple and ends the first half with Barça six up.
MINUTE 19 (37-35)
Barça takes the lead again after quite a few minutes with a basket from Fall. For the Peñarroya party.
MINUTE 18 (35-35)
Exchange of baskets that prevent Barça from being able to get back in front. The Barça team must adjust its defense, which is not holding up the rival attack well. Shengelia scores against Parker to reach 10 points.
MINUTE 16 (29-33)
Barça took the lead again thanks to a dunk from Willy following a pass from Satoransky, who had captured the offensive rebound. Duane Washington, who has undoubted offensive quality, answers. Fall enters for Willy. Shengelia only scores a free throw and Washington scores again. Punter hits the ball on his foot, Partizan counterattacks and another two points from Washington, now from a free kick.
MINUTE 14 (26-27)
Fernando scores but Barça takes the lead with another triple, this time from Satoransky from the corner. Osetkowski responds from beyond the arc. But the former Unicaja player commits his third foul in the next action and goes to the bench, relieved by Pokusevski. Barça is already in bonus and Willy scores only one free kick. Vanja Marinkovic, who turns 29 today, does score both of hers. Five-meter Shengelia scores.
MINUTES 12 (20-20)
Great defense from Barça, who recovers the ball and ties with a frontal triple from Laprovittola. The partial is 7-0
MINUTE 11 (17-20)
Good first attack by Barça that ends with a mate from Vesely after a pass from Brizuela. And Barça continues well, stealing from midfield and scoring on the counterattack through Brizuela. Peñarroya stops it immediately.
THE SECOND QUARTER STARTS
MINUTES 10 (13-20)
Calathes penetrates and scores too easily. And another Barça loss that Partizan turns into a Bonga counterattack! One more from Jekiri from mid-range, Partizan goes +7. Laprovittola brings Barça closer with a bomb. Another very easy entry from Calathes. Brizuela monopolized Barça’s last attack but with little success and ended the first quarter with Pascual’s team seven points down.
MINUTES 8 (11-12)
Vesely steals it from Jekiri but Calathes does the same with Shengelia in his attempted counterattack. Jekiri scores from mid-range. If before she attacked Parker in the low post, now Shengelia does it with Osetkowski, who has entered for the former Barça player. He takes the fault. And another lost ball from Barça, although Partizan takes advantage of it. Vesely’s first points, his classic 4-5 meter shot.
MINUTE 6 (9-10)
Good defense by Barça, which forces Partizan to exhaust the 24 seconds of possession. Parra enters for Cale. Sparks fly in the duel between Shengelia and Parker, who fouls the Georgian in the fight at the low post. Shengelia triple.
MINUTES 5 (6-10)
Fernando dances Willy to score under the basket and Xavi Pascual for the match
MINUTE 4 (6-6)
Great tackle by Punter and Fernando scores after two offensive rebounds from Partizan. Now the one who scores after offensive rebound is Willy Hernangómez. Neither Cale nor Punter got it right, nor did Payne.
MINUTE 2 (2-4)
Barça misses its first two attacks, two triples, and Partizan opens the scoring through Cameron Payne. Willy equalizes after making Bruno Fernando fly with the feint. Jabari Parker’s first basket at the Palau with a different shirt than the Blaugrana.
THERE ARE ALREADY INITIAL QUINTETS
Barça will start with Satoransky, Punter, Cale, Norris and Hernangómez.
Partizan’s starting quintet is made up of Payne, Brown, Bonga, Parker and Fernando
MVP FOR KEVIN PUNTER
At this moment Juan Carlos Navarro presents the December Euroleague MVP to Kevin Punter.
JEKIRI AND WASHINGTON, AVAILABLE
The Nigerian center Tonye Jekirirecently released from CSKA Moscow and signed by Partizan to replace Tyrique Jones, has traveled with the team and could play his first minutes with the Serbian team’s jersey at the Palau Blaugrana. Likewise, the exterior Duane Washingtonwho missed the last game due to injury against AS Monaco, also returns to the squad and could return to the orders of Peñarroya
14 WINS IN 17 GAMES
In good dynamics after winning the Classic by attacking the fiefdom of Real Madrid and do the same before him Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Palau, although without people due to the obligation to play the match behind closed doors, the Barça wants to continue confirming his good feelings, because he has won 14 of his last 17 games. Pascual stated yesterday that “in our sport you never live in the past”, adding that the team is “really looking forward to playing at home with the public and continuing with the positive atmosphere” of the Palau Blaugrana.
“ONE OF OURS”
“Joan has been our coach, I hope the Palau receives him very well. Regardless of life’s difficulties, sometimes things turn out well or not. Joan is a very good guy and he put everything into trying to do the best possible. Everything is highly valued by people, but he is one of us“, he detailed Pascualensuring that it will be a “complicated match” since the rival has “an extraordinary squad with a lot of individual capacity.”
BARÇA RECOVERS BRIZUELA
After missing the last two games against Real Madrid and Maccabi Tel Aviv due to the flu, Darío Brizuela returns to play today.
PASCUAL ASKS FOR A GOOD WELCOME TO PEÑARROYA
He Barça meets tonight, starting at 8:30 p.m., with the Partisan in a Palau Blaugrana that waits Xavi Pascual that “receives Peñarroya very well.” It only took fifty days for the new Barça coach to earn respect in Europe and, after changing the dynamics of the team, he asks his fans to applaud Peñarroya.
PEÑARROYA, TWO MONTHS LATER
Today marks two months since the Barça y Joan Peñarroya They separated their paths after an irregular start to the course. Coincidences of life, the Egarense coach returns 60 days later to the Palau Blaugranaalthough he will do so as a visitor, after he made the brave decision to take the reins of the Partisancurrently bottom of the Euroleague.
BARÇA RECEIVES PEÑARROYA AND JABARI
Good afternoon! Welcome to the live narration of Barça-Partizan corresponding to matchday 21 of the Euroleague basketball game.
The match will be played at the Palau Blaugrana starting at 8.30pm.
It will be the first opportunity for Barça to face coach Joan Peñarroya and Jabari Parker, who after leaving the Barça team now plays for Partizan.
MINUTE 26 (53-43)
The free kick is being Barça’s Achilles heel, Punter also scores only one of two. And Washington nails a triple that serves as a warning. Norris’s stone that doesn’t even touch the rim.