He arrived second Euroleague game for Baskonia and, as on the opening day, they faced a Serbian team. Those of Pablo Laso faces were seen this time with the other Belgrade team, the Red Starwith the addition that this time they played in the Stark Arena.
There, they were waiting for the Vitorians old acquaintances of the club such as Codi Miller-Mcintyre or Rokas Giedraitiswith a past in the Barcelona team. The dynamics of the match were marked by great atmosphere in the stands and the success of the Serbian triple (46%)who outplayed the Basques and ended up taking the game in a match that had a final score of 78-71 and in which Baskonia did not find the appropriate competition rhythm.
Red rain of triples
Pablo Laso’s team started the game well, with a Timothy Luwawu-Cabarrot who led the first attacks of a team that got stuck at six points start. Something that took advantage of Red Star putting one more gear in defense and expanding the distance on the scoreboard thanks to some good deeds Canaan and Bolomboy who established a +9 on the scoreboard for Sfairopoulos’s team (15-6).
This led the Basque coach to stop the game, since I couldn’t find the key to unclog the game. Proof of this was that Moneke did not enter the game until after 6′ of the first quarter. Shortly after Red Star increased its advantage to the 10 pointsa difference that was cut to five points at the end of the first of the four rounds thanks to a 2+1 from Monk and a triple by Rogkavopoulos (20-15).
Kalinic reacts in a match action
Jam in attack
The second quarter started even worse for Baskonia with a triple by Yago Dos Santos and several consecutive baskets of the Serbs, who maintained a great level from beyond 6.75 (7 shots scored out of 11 attempted), which stabilized the difference throughout the second round between the 10-12 points difference to the detriment of the Basques.
Baskonia reacted and despite the jam in attack, which was marked by the problems with lack of and Markus Howard that was loaded with three in the middle of the quarter, was able to stop the bleeding and go down to eight points (42-34), in a first half where the lack of success in the triple (1/6) and the little forcefulness in the offensive rebound He weighed down Laso’s men in offensive tasks.
Sedekerskis before Bolomboy
Nothing changed after the break
The return of the locker room It was not the best for the interests of the Spanish teamwho continued to make hasty decisions in attack against a Stark Arena who was experiencing an offensive feast for his team, which extended the bleeding to the 12 points disadvantage (52-40)leaving on the scoreboard as they continued with their exhibition in the triplemaintaining success in a 57%.
The good news of the fourth for Baskonia was the momentary entry into the party of a Markus Howard who managed to unblock the team with a triple, the second of the entire game. However, the success in attack did not last long and Red Star took advantage of Joel Bolomboy’s superiority in the zone to leave with a double-digit lead in the fourth quarter battle (59-49).
Bolomboy before Luxury-Cabarrot
The epic didn’t work
Red Star started like a hurricane in the last quarter, which added to the losses and the bad decisions of the Spanish in attack brought the game to a +16 for the Sfairopoulos players who seemed to have broken the game completely, something that It changed when there were just 7 minutes left..
A three-pointer from Rogkavopoulos (who scored two of Baskonia’s shots from beyond the arc in the game), a good action by Howard and two free throws Donta Hallthey reduced the difference to -7 with half a quarter left to play (65-58). After this, Laso’s men recovered the ‘Baskonia character’, they got to four points and they forced the Red Star coach to stop the game.
Timothy Luwawu-Cabarrot
Two actions of Joel Bolomboywith a block Donta Hall and a mid-range shot in attack, changed the dynamics of the last minutes, in which despite getting closer on the scoreboard, Laso’s men they failed to materialize a comeback thatif he had achieved it, he would have given Baskonia a second victory in the Euroleague that for now you will have to wait.
