Euro League
Monaco was sweating, but their shots got past Kaunas in the final period
Monaco climbed to 8-5 after the difficult double they scored against Zalgiris 83-79 in Kaunas. Mike James, Alpha Diallo and Jaron Blossomgame stood out for the team from the Principality.
Monaco managed a difficult 83:79 away win against Zalgiris on matchday 13 of the EuroLeague. Kazis Maskvitis’s team competed without Lekavicius, Butkevicius and Manek, but managed to put up a strong resistance after the break, which put Saša Obradović’s side in trouble, who took twelve valuable points from the charity team in the final period.
Mike James, who moved to third all-time in the EuroLeague, had 25 points, 8 rebounds, 1 assist, 4 steals and 4 turnovers. A good presence from Alfa Diallo, who delivered 11 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal in 26’20” participation times. On the losing side, Rolands Schmitz stood out, who achieved a double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds.
The race
Monaco was in control from the start of the game and had a double-digit lead after 17 minutes (29:39). In the first half (37-46, 20th), the Monegasques scored 13 surprise points and another 10 of the 8 errors committed by Zalgiris, who kept up with the score thanks to his accuracy from distance (7/14, 3-pointer). ).
With a deficit of 22:11 in the third period – thanks to rebound control and offensive pluralism – Kazis Maskvitis’ team went into the fourth quarter with a basket lead (59:57, 30th).
Monaco took advantage of the fouls and took the lead by 3 (63-66) in the 35th, 20th minutes, while Mike James made it 65-69 with a three-pointer in the 36th minute. Roland Schmitz responded immediately with the same coin (68-69). With two shots from Alpha Diallo, a three-pointer from Jaron Blossomgame and a basket from Mike James, the guests rose to +8 with 1’15 inches on the clock.
Roland Schmitz and Eli Okombo traded baskets to make it 70-78, while Keenan Evans’ three made the 73-78 to 75-78. Schmitz still had 26 inches to go. James made two more before Keenan Evans scored to make it 77. 80 with 13″ on the clock. Okobo won another foul at 1/2 and Dimsa scored on the other side before the French guard made it 79-83.
THE REFEREES: Perez, Latishevs, Pander
THE DECADES: 19-23, 37-46, 59-57, 79-83
ZALGIRIS (Maxvitis): Evans 10 (1/6 3-pointers, 4 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals, 4 turnovers), Hayes 6 (5 rebounds), Gentraitis 8 (2), Schmitz 13 (1/2 3-pointers, 11 rebounds), Biroutis 6 (7 rebounds), Dimsa 14 (2/6 three-pointers, 4 rebounds), Lavrinovicius 3 (1), Ulanovas 10 (2/3 three-pointers, 4 rebounds, 3 assists)
MONACO (Obradovic): Okobo 12 (3 rebounds, 4 assists), Blossomgame 13 (1), Brown 2 (4 rebounds), Diallo 11 (5 rebounds, 4 assists), Corneli 9 (1), Jaite 4, Walker, Motiejunas ( 3 rebounds, 2 turnovers), Strazel 3, Hall 4, James 25 (6/11 2-pointers, 3/6 3-pointers, 4/5 shots, 8 rebounds, 1 assist, 4 steals, 4 turnovers)
Zalgiris Kaunas team statistics: 21/46 2-pointers, 11/27 3-pointers, 4/7 shots, 44 rebounds (26 defensive – 18 offensive), 16 assists, 6 steals, 12 turnovers, 2 blocks
Monaco’s team statistics: 21/41 twos, 5/18 threes, 26/33 Shots, 34 rebounds (24 defensive – 10 offensive), 16 assists, 9 steals, 8 fouls, 3 blocks
The next games of the two teams: On matchday 14, Zalgiris hosts Partizan (12/14, 8:00 p.m.), while Monaco travels to Turkey to face Fenerbahce.
Source: sport 24
I am a writer at Sportish, where I mainly cover sports news. I’ve also written for The Guardian and ESPN Brasil, and my work has been featured on NBC Sports, SI.com and more. Before working in journalism, I was an athlete: I played football for Colgate University and competed in the US Open Cross Country Championships.
Euro League
Mustafa Fal, the red spider web
Mustafa Fal has delivered a monstrous performance in international matches and Vassilis Skoundis is tackling the problem, inevitably involving the first teacher of the art, Panagiotis Fassoulas.
“The gypsy saw his generation and his heart rejoiced,” says a proverb whose meaning fits the occasion… I mean, the occasion of Fal seeing the other Fal opposite him and enjoying him normally and in accordance with the law!
Let the necessary recommendations be made…
One of them is Mustafa Fal, who was born in Paris on February 23, 1992, he is French, he plays in his country’s national team, his hat comes from Senegal, he has been looking since he was 2.18. He is in his third season at Olympiacos…
Yusufa and Taco
The other person who competed against him yesterday is Youssoufa Fal, who was born in Dakar on January 12, 1995, is a Senegalese with French nationality, has a height of 2.21 m and is competing in Villerban for the third consecutive time…
There is of course the much wilder Taco Fal, who was also born in Dakar on December 10, 1995, spent three seasons in the NBA, is now sizzling in China and has had his head tickling the feet of God since he was 229 cm tall!
Mustafa, Yusufa and Tako have no relationship or kinship between them: they are synonymous, apart from the coincidence that ensures that they are all three kilometers long!
The triple-double figure in Pylaia
He had attacked the Olympiacos central defender again on the 11th of last month, on the occasion of the triple-double he scored in the game against PAOK in Pylaia, rare in our area, but he wanted to make us laugh for a while as his only goal!
At first he missed Yannis Fileris who treated him properly, but I also have some stitches for his fur!
To say my sin, I laughed and liked Fileris’ pun on… Wrong!
Fasoulas and… Lumidis
In any case, “Pani” was like…Lumidis in the field of coffee roasting, plus he made heads turn with soft nails with his unique and unparalleled skills.
To paraphrase Lumidis’ advertising slogan: in our case it was “Everyone in their own way and Fasoulas in their caps“!
Since the conversation broke out, the experienced PAOK and Olympiacos international center has recorded five triple-doubles with points, rebounds and blocks, which are of course rarer than those that include assists.
He scored the first of these goals on October 15, 1988 (PAOK-Panionios) with 18 points, 18 rebounds and 13 blocks.
Two weeks later he “wrote” the second with 20-18-11 against Apollon Patras, on November 19 he followed the third against Sporting (29-19-15), while in the 1990/91 season he added two more: 18 – 14-10 with Peristeri and 19-12-11 with Iraklis.
Vrankovic’s record and the “wow” with Green
Similar triple feats with plugs have also been achieved by Stojan Vrankovic (who is already the record holder in EuroLeague history with 10 in a Fortitudo Bologna-Cibona Zagreb game) with Panathinaikos, Anthony Cook with PAOK, Mike Smrek with Dafni, PJ Brown with Panionios, Efthymis Renzias with the National Youth Team and Antonis Fotsis with the Greens youth team.
On Friday night in Lyon, Fall broke the bank when he nearly followed in Draymond Green’s footsteps and posted a rare triple-double without scoring in double figures.
He reached the final horn with two points, seven rebounds, seven assists and eight blocks, while the Warriors’ cocky forward did so on February 10, 2017 against the Grizzlies with 11 rebounds, 10 assists, 10 steals and just two points.
From 0.8 to 8
Fal had grabbed 14 rebounds in the game against Red Star while he dished out seven assists in the game against Baskonia, so there is no news here…
The wave was caused by the eight caps, because on the one hand there are a lot of them and on the other hand the so-called do not have a big problem with davtes.
Before the game with Villerban, he had taken 12 shots in 14 games, and suddenly he flashed and thundered from a 0.8 average to eight!
What is the key quality a good blocker should have?
The cap for Moretti, the timing and the caps
Instead of answering, I’ll give the floor to a specialist and expert, none other than Panagiotis Fasoulas, who, among other things, scored the most decisive international match in the history of Olympiacos!
I am referring to the match against Paolo Moretti in the third game of the European Champions Cup playoff series in the 10993/94 season, thanks to which Piraeus qualified for the Final 4 in Tel Aviv.
“Everything is a question of timing“he explained to me when I asked him how he cultivated and developed his art.
“You need to know and understand where, when and how to jump to block the opponent’s shot. In addition to this sense of space and time, speed of movement and long arms also play a role. I did the caps and even covered the ball so we could go straight to attack” explains Fasoulas, who is already drawing the moral lesson of the story…
“Attack requires talent, but defense depends on will.”
The spider web
Last but not least, this desire flowed from the… gums of Fasoula, who went out and trapped his opponents in the spider’s web from which no one could escape.
From his appearance in the early 80s until his retirement in 1999, he reduced defense not only to a science, but to a spectacular spectacle!
Source: sport 24
I am a writer at Sportish, where I mainly cover sports news. I’ve also written for The Guardian and ESPN Brasil, and my work has been featured on NBC Sports, SI.com and more. Before working in journalism, I was an athlete: I played football for Colgate University and competed in the US Open Cross Country Championships.
Euro League
Matias Lessor’s message about his injury: “It hurts, but I’m fine”
Matias Lessor received hundreds of interesting messages from friends of Panathinaikos AKTOR about his injury and quickly explained what the situation is.
Matias Lessor’s injury was the only black mark in the game against Armani Milano. For this very reason, the people of Panathinaikos AKTOR didn’t enjoy it as much as they would have liked. At least until they received the results of the sports high school exams.
The day after the game, it became clear that the problem was not serious. However, Matias Lessor explained in detail how he feels after his injury and thanked everyone for their interest.
Matias Lesor’s message in detail:
“Thank you everyone for your lovely messages and your interest. I’m feeling much better. It just hurts, but I’m fine“.
Source: sport 24
I am a writer at Sportish, where I mainly cover sports news. I’ve also written for The Guardian and ESPN Brasil, and my work has been featured on NBC Sports, SI.com and more. Before working in journalism, I was an athlete: I played football for Colgate University and competed in the US Open Cross Country Championships.
Euro League
The landlord’s tests are clear, he will be left out against Prometheus
End of alert for Matias Lesor at Panathinaikos AKTOR. The French center has a bad back due to the injury and will miss tomorrow’s (December 24th) game against Prometheus in Patras (20:15, ERT3 and LIVE on Sportish), but his tests were clear.
Matias Lesor will play in tomorrow’s (December 24th) away game of Panathinaikos AKTOR against Prometheus (8:15 p.m., 3 a.m. and LIVE from Sportish) on matchday 11 of the Stoiximan Basket League due to the lower back injury he sustained in this game , do not compete Armani Milano. But he escaped the worst.
The French center was tested immediately after the return of the “Greens” from Milan, who were “clean”. In other words, they didn’t show that the bone was broken in the middle – which everyone feared when they saw the Frenchman slaughtered on the ground. But Lesor is still in pain, ruling him out of the game against Prometheus and considered doubtful for next week’s EuroLeague game against Red Star.
With Lesor out, Oleg Balcherovski, Kostas Antetokounmpo and Dinos Mitoglou will fill the center position in the game against Prometheus.
Source: sport 24
I am a writer at Sportish, where I mainly cover sports news. I’ve also written for The Guardian and ESPN Brasil, and my work has been featured on NBC Sports, SI.com and more. Before working in journalism, I was an athlete: I played football for Colgate University and competed in the US Open Cross Country Championships.
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