Kraljevi Kvota - Euroleague 23rd round review
The 23rd round of the Euroleague, dominated by domestic teams, has ended. You can follow everything about Euroleague on our website as well as on Instagram, Facebook and Tik Tok accounts.
Partizan registered a very important triumph of 92:86 over Paris at home and thus reached a positive score for the first time this season, with the third triumph in a row in the Euroleague. Karlik Jones scored 17 points and Bonga scored 16 with 7 rebounds. Among the guests, the best player Hifi was also the most cheerful with 19 points.
Efes demolished Olympia from Milan by as many as 44 points. The match ended with a 110:66 victory for the Turkish team. Already at halftime, the home team had a 25-point advantage, and in the second part of the game they only increased that difference. Beabo was the most effective with 18 points, with Nvora adding 15. Brooks had 13 assists for Armani.
Crvena Zvezda took a big step back by losing to Maccabi. Although the match was played in Belgrade, Zvezda did not manage to take advantage of it and was a few steps behind the Israeli team throughout the match. In the end, 85:73 for Maccabi. Dibartolomeo was the most effective for the home team with 15 points, and Blatt added 14. For Zvezda, Teodosic scored 15 and Petrusev scored 14 goals.
Although Panathinaikos was losing at home to Zalgiris by as many as 17 points in the second half, and especially in the last quarter, which they won with 29:6, they stepped up and registered a new triumph of 89:76. The best player in this match for the Greens was Nan with 26 points, followed by Slukas with 16. The best player of the guests was Walker, who scored 19 points.
The first victory for the side in this round was registered by Monaco with an 86:80 victory over Virtus in Bologna. Mike James scored 24 points, with 7 rebounds and 4 assists, followed by Strazel with 14 assists. Sengelia scored 15 and Paiola 14 for the home team.
On paper, Real Madrid had an easy job against Baskonia, but in the end they barely pulled out a victory with a score of 90:89. Campazzo and Hezonja scored 22 points each, and Rokavopoulos scored the same number of goals with 11 rebounds for Baskonia.
Lyon created a small surprise by defeating Barcelona at home with 100:94. We saw a great match with a lot of points, and in the end a narrow but well-deserved victory for the home team. Maledon scored 18 points with 9 assists, while Roberson added 17 with 6 rebounds for Lyon. For the guests, Kevin Panter was the most effective with 19 points and 6 assists, with 18 scored by Parker.
In the German derby, Bayern beat Alba in Berlin with a score of 99:84, as expected, giving them their 20th defeat this season in the Euroleague. Edwards played the best match so far, scoring 34 points with 6 rebounds and 6 assists. He was followed by Obst with 21 points, and the most effective for the home team were Australian tandems, McDowell-White, who scored 18 points, and Wetzel, who added 14.
In the last match of the round, we saw a great triumph of Fenerbahce over Olympiakos in Athens, 87:77. This very important triumph in the fight for first place in the standings was led by Marko Guduric, the most efficient player in Fener, with 21 points. Along with him, Hayes-Davis added 14. For the home team, Fournier scored 21 goals, and Sasa Vezenkov scored 19.
Olympiakos is still first with a score of 16-7, but Fenerbahce has one less victory and one less match. At the top of the table is Alba with only 3 wins from 23 rounds.
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