Euroleague: Barcelona doesn’t win even with Metu | Basketball | Sports | EUROtoday

Although he provides greater than he takes away, though he’s an amazing and differential participant, Punter at all times desires to have the final phrase and it’s not at all times the great one. He failed in opposition to Virtus within the final spherical and dedicated the identical sin on this one in opposition to Red Star, compelled pictures within the final quarter and a misplaced ball within the remaining possession that condemned Barça, as soon as once more run over on the Palau (74-78) and once more rickety in Europe, because it wins as a lot because it loses.

Fast circulation, cross to Metu and leap with a twist of the wrist. Triple, triple and basket from mid-distance as a welcome. Put it within the bucket. Metu the longed one. I’m again after two months within the pharmacy. A participant who, like Neto – who additionally acquired a medical discharge – validates Peñarroya’s guess, the one which mixes the NBA fashion of hypersonic transitions with that of the ACB, extra educational, sluggish and intense in protection. But with or with out Metu, Barça, which misplaced seven balls within the first quarter (15-19), is an indecipherable group with out grey, able to the very best and the worst.

Roguely, Red Star put chloroform into the sport, sturdy protection and lengthy assault, leaden tempo to blur the rival virtues. And when he appeared to get his method, Punter stood out from the periphery, reinvigorating triples for a Barça that went from cataclysm to hope, that closed the occasion on high (35-34) and, by the way, reactivated Vesely, who surpassed 4,000 factors within the Euroleague and entered the choose group of Juan Carlos Navarro (4,152) and Spanoulis (4,455) –retired–, along with Nando de Colo (4,643), Llull (4,068) and Mike James (4,876).

But on the Barcelona merry-go-round there may be at all times room for yet one more flip. So Kalinic, a former Barça participant who left in a foul method as a result of the membership accused him of laziness, started to command the courtroom, damaging baskets and boosting the Belgrade group, peppered by the sensational Nedovic. Nothing that may silence Metu, who, 3 times and a layup, tried to show the sock round. But that was the work of Darío Brizuela, who scored two triples in a row – the second on the buzzer and from the center of the courtroom – and scratched an opponent resistant to discouragement, practice wrecks and hardships; 59-56 earlier than the epilogue.

Filigree actions underneath Petrusev’s hoop, tremendous stylistic baskets from Parker or Hernangómez’s half flip, two plus one for Kalinic, alley-oop from Núñez with Anderson, layups from Dos Santos… A yours-mine, a tug-of-war with intrigue, a state of affairs for Barça to say that life with Metu is healthier and that they’ve a group for the whole lot. But not even with these. Punter gambled and made a mistake, and Barça as soon as once more perished in Europe.

Baskonia did higher, able to overcoming Paris (94-81), a group that amazed by its ease of capturing – which took it to the highest – however that has misplaced steam because the competitors has progressed. Moneke (29 factors) and Howard (28) had been an excessive amount of for the opponent. Too good.