The white team threatened with the reaction (15-13), but it continued to rain triple Gauls

and that’s how it ended. Defeat more than avoidable against an inferior opponent.

Real Madrid beat (91-84) this Friday Asvel Villerbaune on matchday 12 of the Euroleague held at the WiZink Center, thanks to a hard work of pride, defense and quality against a very inspired opponent, who wanted to wallow with his wave to the white box but found the local door slamming that strengthens him in the playoffs zone.

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On 12/09/2020 at 20:10 CET

DATA SHEET

EUROLEAGUE

MAD

91-84

ASV

REAL MADRID

(19 + 21 + 21 + 30): Laprovittola (5), Randolph (2), Deck (7), Taylor (2) and Tavares (19) -starting team-, Abalde (2), Thompkins (8), Garuba (6), Causeur (13), Llull (19), Rudy (8) and Randolph (2).

ASVEL VILLEURBANNE

(26 + 24 + 20 + 14): Freeman (11), Kahudi (2), Fall (6), Hayes and Yabusele (21) -starting five-, Diot (3), Noua, Bako (4), Lighty ( 13), Howard (3) and Cole (21).

REFEREES

Ilija Belosevic (SRB), Mario Majkic (SLO) and Gentian Cici (ALB). Without eliminated.

INCIDENTS

Match corresponding to the twelfth day of the regular phase of the Euroleague played at the Palacio de Deportes (WiZink Center) in Madrid behind closed doors

Those of Pablo Laso, after the defeat against CSKA, redirect their march up the table with 7-5, although for this they had to break a sweat. Asvel riddled with triples in the first half and stayed on their feet until Madrid ended up pouring into the Palace with the last quarter (30-14), from defense and with Sergio Llull and Edy Tavares decisive, both with 19 points.

The French team was plugged in and wanted to continue that way. After beating Barça and hitting Panathinaikos three-pointers, Asvel applied the same medicine against Madrid. Until shortly before the break, his shooting card at that distance was a 9 of 10. The first half seemed to be long for the visitors, but they held him to reach 10 at the break (40-50).

However, Laso’s men seemed to be caught off guard, without a defense that knew how to stop those pitches. The white team threatened with the reaction (15-13), but it continued to rain French triples. The local response with the same medicine was Llull, with three successes in a row in the second quarter (32-35). However, Fall was also sneaking inside, despite Garuba’s fight.

Laso’s men did not manage to take command in that pause of the rival downpour that Yabusele, Cole and Freeman had commanded. With 10 down, Madrid returned stung in pride, with the bench very involved in encouraging and exciting their team, and better in defense. Tavares and Causeur were key in that local step forward, but a greater inspiration was lacking in attack (53-60).

In that search, Madrid could not control everything and less an Asvel enjoying as never before in these two years of the Euroleague. The French team knew how to avoid Tavares and re-plug in to save the income towards the last quarter (61-70). A Llull triple made up that disadvantage, while Rudy entered to shore up the defense a little more. Laso exhausted his cards with 10 minutes ahead.

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Fernández’s also put the Gauls to the test, increasingly demanded by a local defense to the limit and the match tied with four minutes remaining (79-79). 1 x bet The proud reaction of Madrid, with a triple by Llull to confirm the change of third, closed the local ring. The same one that the Gauls had seen as a swimming pool, repelled the attempts to continue in a great fight in the Palace.

The American guard Jordan Loyd led the Red Star this Friday with a brilliant final match to the victory against Valencia Basket whose renewal offer was waiting last summer and who in this clash lacked arguments to dominate and also to play the last minutes after having forced a tight finish (76-73).

Dec 18, 2020 at 9:07 pm CET

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DATA SHEET

EUROLEAGUE

ITS T

76-73

VAL

RED STAR

Uskokovic (2), Loyd (20), Lazic (3), Simonovic (2), Kuzmic (6) -five starters- O¿Bryant (15), Walden (8), Davidovac (8), Reath (7) and Jadovic-Kuridza (5).

VALENCIA

(22 + 14 + 21 + 16): Vives (5), Van Rossom (-), San Emeterio (2), Labeyrie (15), Dubljevic (5) -five starters- Prepelic (15), Puerto (5), Tobey (11), Kalinic (5), Williams (5) and Hermannsson (5).

REFEREES

Lamonica (ITA), Kowalski (POL) and Balak (ISR). Without eliminated.

INCIDENTS

match corresponding to the fifteenth day of the regular phase of the Euroleague played in the Aleksandar Nikolic pavilion in Belgrade behind closed doors due to coronavirus restrictions

The meeting started evenly. For Valencia it was enough for Louis Labeyrie to translate the inertia of his great victory on the Olympiacos court into points and some aim from the three-point line. The Red Star suffered in the first moments to hold that rhythm but its agile rotation ended up giving it the helm of the crash.

With Walden’s push, he turned the score around and with the points of former Valencia player Jordan Loyd he opened a first gap on the scoreboard that forced Jaume Ponsarnau to request a time-out and to recover the French power forward.

None of that worked, in part due to the unexpected appearance of Johnny O’Bryant, and only Klemen Prepelic’s 3-pointers prevented Valencia from going into halftime with an even greater disadvantage (45-36, m.20).

Valencia came out a bit more intense and that and the bad shooting percentage of the locals allowed them to cut their disadvantage somewhat without having to present many arguments. In those parameters the game moved throughout the third quarter without the good minutes of O’Bryant getting the local advantage to take off again.

The departure of Hermannsson gave Valencia the verticality it needed to reach the last quarter with a triple from Labeyrie with its options intact (57-57, m.30).

The clairvoyance of the Icelandic point guard fed the visiting scoreboard but it was not enough from the beginning to complete the comeback. In the end it was Josep Puerto who sealed it but the clash entered into an exchange of baskets without any team managing to prevail.

It was Loyd who broke that balance with several actions in a row gave the initiative to the Red Star and Valencia, with Hermannsson tired on the bench, he did not find anyone who knew what to do and although he had the last possession to force the extension to Prepelic he escaped the ball.

Barça coach Sarunas Jasikevicius has indicated that in weeks with a double Euroleague matchday, like this one in which they beat Khimki and face Maccabi this Friday

12/17/2020 at 6:16 PM CET

"It is difficult for the players (double shift) and there you must draw character and be closer together, be attentive in defensive rotations, and not lose your head", He declared in statements provided by the Barça club.

Regarding Maccabi, one of his former teams, believes that he arrives in a similar situation to that of Khimki Moscow, with an unrequited place in the classification. "It’s one of the teams that doesn’t deserve to be down there", he assured.

"He has a 5-9 and has a positive average. That says a lot about their level, in many games they have scored more points than not conceded, they are tough on defense and they are playing correct basketball"noted from the Hebrew team.

For his part, point guard Nick Calathes is confident of continuing to improve his numbers after signing 14 and 12 assists against Milan and Khimki. "I have a good feeling, a good pace, after starting the season somewhat slow. I know my teammates better, I hope I keep improving", he predicted.

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"It will be a difficult game, Maccabi is a good team with experience, they have been working with the same hard core of players for two years so it will be difficult. The key is in defense, we will have to stop its creation and its scoring"He commented on the Maccabi.

DAZN continues to broadcast the Euroleague Basketball, one of the most competitive basketball leagues in the world. The Euroleague seems to have a clear dominator in the figure of Barcelona, since the Catalan team seems to have clearly established themselves in the leadership. They are followed by CSKA Moscow and Real Madrid. This time Oylmpiacos and Real Madrid are facing each other. The Whites, as we have explained previously, are in third position, while the Hellenes remain in the middle of the table, specifically in the ninth, insufficient to enter the play-offs.

12/17/2020 at 7:50 PM CET

Thus, the game will begin at 8:00 p.m. peninsular time on Friday, December 18, and will be broadcast exclusively through DAZN, the world’s leading sports streaming and VOD platform. To enjoy the game we will have to have a subscription, which costs € 9.99 and includes a totally free trial month.

12/17/2020 at 7:46 PM CET

Thus, the match will begin at 9:00 p.m. peninsular time on Friday, December 18, and will be broadcast exclusively through DAZN, the world’s leading sports VOD and streaming platform. To enjoy the game we will have to have a subscription, which costs € 9.99 and includes a totally free trial month.

The Euroleague 2020/21 is back for Barça. The Catalans receive Khimhi Moscow at the Palau Blaugrana with their morale through the roof after beating Olimpia Milano on the last European day. In addition, those of Jasikevicius also did their homework in the ACB by knocking down the Obradoiro.