Worn by the duo Lee – Bacon, Panathinaikos sink Milan
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Jostled by Paris Lee and Dwayne Bacon, Milan signed their eighth consecutive defeat in the EuroLeague on the floor of Panathinaikos Athens. Meanwhile, Red Star won the first Belgrade derby in the competition’s history.
The EuroLeague evening was marked by monaco’s victory at real madrid (94-95, ap) but also the Belgrade derby and the new defeat of Milan.
Because the Lombards signed their eighth consecutive loss in the EuroLeague. Despite their strong performance at Sassari on Sunday in Serie A, Ettore Messina’s team failed to follow up with Panathinaikos Athens. However, the Italians have long been ahead. After 26 minutes of play, they were still at +13 (42-55). But by now dominating the rebound battle and relying on the duo of former Monegasques Paris Lee (22 points at 5/14 on shots, 5 assists and 4 steals in 39 minutes) – Dwayne Bacon (31 points at 11/20 and 7 rebounds in 31 minutes), the locals came back to snatch the extension. Launched, they completely overwhelmed the team of Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot (15 points at 6/14, 4 rebounds and 1 assist in 24 minutes) during these 5 extra minutes.
The historic opponents in the Yugoslav then Serbian championship and finally in the Adriatic League, Partizan Belgrade and Red Star Belgrade met for the very first time in their history in the EuroLeague. And if Zeljko Obradovic’s team led for a long time, it’s Nemanja Nedovic (20 points at 6/15 and 4 assists in 22 minutes) who gave victory to his team by scoring his only 3-point basket 3 seconds from the end. Behind, the locals could not equalize and they let their rivals continue their historic recovery made with the arrival of Dusko Ivanovic in coaching. Out only 2 minutes 30, Mathias Lessort finished at 24 evaluation (11 points at 4/7, 10 rebounds, 3 assists and 6 fouls caused).
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In the other matches, Maccabi Tel-Aviv got their heads out of the water by winning against Valencia (84-68) and the leader, Fenerbahçe Istanbul, feasted at ALBA Berlin (75-104 ) who has just lost nine matches in a row on the European stage.