Red Star – Monaco 80-91: From -20, the Monegasque are on their way to the playoffs

Some had written it off. And yet Monaco is still here! Two nights after the OAKA win, the Monegasques also beat the Red Star (91-80) in Belgrade to show they still pursue the goal of making the playoffs and remaining in the EuroLeague as the Octave renew their position will. in the tournament for another season. From -20 (45-25) they came back with an impressive picture in the second twenty minutes.

At 12-12 was Sasa Obradovic’s team (5-5 home and 7-7 away) with Donatas Motiejounas making a great showing, Dwayne Bacon following him and Mike James idle. Austin Hollins was the only Red Star of note, as Nikola Kalinic had a bad night, as did Ognjen Dobrich. The Serbs fell to 8-14 and had negative records at home (5-6) and away (3-8).

The race

Aseras was impressive, to be precise, sweeping early in the game. He scored 30 points in the first ten minutes, with Austin Hollins in an incredible situation, he took advantage of Monaco’s lack of energy, which showed alongside his tiredness and quite unprepared for the Serbian intensity, he kept a good lead and closed the first part at +10 (52-42) with a balance of two points (11/16), three points (8/14) and 14 assists for five errors.

Monaco found some reserves of energy early in the second half, slowly nagging at the difference and reducing it to the basket towards the end of the third period (60-58 and 62-60), before completely throwing it off in the fourth period and coming up with an emphatic one Victory with the top Motieguna – Bacon, the night Mike James was very…quiet for his dates.

THE REFEREES: Paterniko, Lezkano, Tsitsi

THE TEN MINUTES: 30-19, 52-42, 64-64, 80-91

Red Star (Radonic): Walters 4 (5 assists), Mitrovic, Lazic 7 (2), Kalinic 7 (2/4 two points, 1/3 three points, 2 rebounds, 4 assists, 5 errors), Dobrich 13 (1/6 two points, 3/7 threes, 2/3 shots, 4 rebounds), Hollins 19 (4/4 twos, 3/6 threes, 2/2 shots), Ivanovic 15 (4/4 two-pointers, 1/4 threes , 4/5 shots, 4 rebounds, 3 assists), Markovic, White 6 (2), Kuzmic 7, Tsirbes 2

MONACO (Obradovic): Li 7 (1), Bacon 17 (7/11 two points, 1/3 three points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists), Thomas 8 (1), Diallo 9 (3/5 two points, 1/1 three points, 0/3 shots, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals), Motiejounas 20 (3/7 two points, 3/3 three points, 5/7 shots, 6 rebounds, 2 assists), Ouattara 8 (2) , Faig, Andjusic 8 (1/1 three points, 5/5 shots), Hall 4, James 10 (2/3 two points, 2/4 three points, 6 assists)

The red star stats: 16/28 two points, 12/27 three points, 12/15 shots, 24 rebounds (16 defensive – 8 offensive), 19 assists, 4 steals, 18 errors

Monaco team statistics: 22/36 two points, 12/20 three points, 11/17 shots, 25 rebounds (18 defensive – 7 offensive), 22 assists, 8 steals, 12 errors

The next games of the two teams: In the 26th game, the Red Star meets Unics in Kazan (11/2 at 18:00), while Monaco host Zalgiris Kaunas (10/2 at 21:00).