Paris Basket vs Real Madrid: Euroleague Defeat – 95-90

Paris is still not moving forward. In Madrid, the Parisians lost again against Réal (95-90). Almost halfway through the season (17 days played out of 38), the Parisians (5 wins – 12 losses) are languishing at the bottom of the rankings, and letting the peloton of teams in the race for the final phase slip away. The capital club has lost ten of its last eleven matches, its worst series since it discovered the Euroleague with fanfare last season, quarter-finals to boot.

Despite its bad patch, Paris has long rivaled the most successful club in the competition, like the American Jared Rhoden (19 pts), author of a spectacular dunk on the head of the Madrid giant Walter Tavares (2.20 m).

Nadir Hifi (11 pts) gave his team a seven-point lead at the start of the last quarter (77-70), but it was another Blue who stole the show afterwards: leader Theo Maledon. The former Villeurbanne player scored 8 of his 21 points in the last ten minutes to turn the tide of the match, to the great dismay of Parisians running out of fuel.