Baskonia or Virtus will be Madrid’s opponents in the quarter-finals
Madrid already knows its road map in the Euroleague. Or at least partially after two games of the tournament. play played on Tuesday in Belgrade and Istanbul. The Whites will meet the winner of Baskonia-Virtus Bologna in the best-of-five quarter-finals in a 2-2-1 format and with home-field advantage from the Madridistas..
The first match at the WiZink Center will take place on Tuesday, April 23 (21:00), and the second, on the same stage, on Thursday, April 25 (21:00). The third, fourth and fifth (if necessary) do not yet have a date and time.
The match between the Basques and the Italians will take place next Friday, the 19th, at the Buesa Arena (20:30). after losing the first match at Stark Arena in Belgrade (Serbia) against Maccabi Tel Aviv with a score of 113–85 and winning the second match at Sinan Erdem in Istanbul (Turkey) against Anadolu Efes with a score of 64– 67. Both already met each other on the last day of the regular stage: Basconistas beat Bologna with a score of 91-95.
Maccabi did not give Dusko Ivanovic’s team a single chance, which fell behind by 28 points (113-85) in the match between 7th and 8th places.. Vitoria’s troubles were palpable (28-15) in the first quarter and intensified by an injury to Chima Moneque in the second, with the power forward forced off the court with a left ankle problem after just 8:34 of the game. Without the usual success of Markus Howard (14 points on 5 of 14 shooting), it was Tadas Sedekerskis (11 points and 7 rebounds) and the colossal Cody Miller-McIntyre (32 points, 8 sacks and 7 baskets on 45 marks) who stepped up for Baskonia, which saw an excellent version by Lorenzo Brown.
The Spanish national team player scored 29 goals, 7 out of 8 from the perimeter.. This is his personal best in the EuroLeague and a huge reaction from him after going 0 for 9 in the last four games of the regular season. At the end of the third quarter, the Israelis already had a 25-point advantage (86-61). This victory leaves Maccabi in seventh position, where it finished the race, and crosses it with Panathinaikos in the quarter-finals, in which the Greeks have a home court factor.
In its turn, Virtus Bologna presented a surprise in the match play between 9th and 10th grade. Because they ended the regular stage with seven defeats in a row, because of the stage of Sinan Erden from Istanbul and because of the opponent, Anadolu Efes, which won eight of the last ten games, five of them in a row in the final stretch. . But the Italians forgot everything and won with a minimum, 64-67, which in the last quarter was prepared by a partial score of 2-14 in almost five minutes, from 32 to 37. Iffe Lundberg’s triple with 11 seconds left in the match and the score 61-64 on the scoreboard silenced the Ottoman pavilion.
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