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The Roca Team will still have to wait: punished by the American rear of the Panathinaikos Kendrick Nunn, who flew over the 33rd day of the 33rd day of Euroligue Thursday (88-76), Monaco is still not officially qualified for the play-offs of the competition. There was nothing to do for Monaco against the current best scorer of the competition, in very great shape. Best player in the meeting, Nunn, 37 points and 43 evaluation (recorded record), dominated his opposite Mike James (6 pts), to whom it took 19 minutes to open his counter.
“Kendrick has made an incredible performance, one of the largest I saw in Euroliguesaid the coach of the Athenian club, Ergin Ataman, who left his player for more than 39 minutes on the prosecution. “”It was an exceptional match, why get him out“, he smiled after assuring the top 3,”The goal of the start of the season“. If the Panathinaikos is officially qualified, Monaco (20 victories for 13 defeats), will have to wait for the other results of the day, and certainly win his last game in the regular phase, at the astroballe against ASVEL, on April 10.
“Owas not at the required level, we had what we deserve“, Soupled Vassilis Spanoulis, still very upset at post-match conference.”I am frustrated, he continued. We can play badly, but what we did in the first quarter is a big lack of respect for the club. Our defense was disastrous“. However, he” remains confident “.”We have our future in hand. If we are not able to beat the 'Pana' or the Asvel, we have nothing to do there.“
Paris not far from the feat
Dominator at the start of the game, Paris came close to the feat on the Real Madrid prosecution (105-104) and will have to impose itself against the Alba Berlin to hope to qualify for the playoffs. Without complexes on the parquet floor of the Spanish giant with the 11 European crowns, with whom they shared the same assessment of 18 victories for 14 defeats at the start, the Parisians did better than resist, and seriously jostled Madrilens not used to having to fight for a place in playoffs two days before the end of the regular season.
But they ended up bowing (105-104), after the start of a failed fourth quarter, despite the stubbornness of Nadir Hifi (23 points at 9/15 in shooting, including 5/9 at three points). Thanks to a few defensive stops and a beautiful address with three points (6/10) in the first quarter, the men of Tiago Splitter had taken the entry controls (28-23) and led by six points (36-30), before the Spaniards seriously harden the tone in the racket.
The match then ignited in the middle of the second quarter, when the Merengues, returned to the height (40-40), resumed the advantage (43-40) on a crazy sequence of the veteran Serge Ibaka, 35, author of four points in the painting in a few seconds and a double-confirmation on Bandja Sy. The Ile-de-France club gave it back to the talent of its two stars TJ Shorts and Nadir Hifi, who maintained their team afloat with huge three-point shoots, to return to the cloakroom with equality 53-53, after a basket on the Gong of Finnish Mikael jantunen.
A fourth fourth fatal quarter in Paris
Returning to the prosecution with the same desire, the Parisians resumed the upper hand, in the wake of the American leader (9/16 to the shooting, including 3/6 to three points), going so far as to carry out ten points at the end of the third quarter (75-65). Shorts, again, has tried to repel the Madrid revolt carried by the Bosnian Dzanan Musa (20 points, 6 assists) and his Croatian friend Mario Hezonja (26 points at 9/13 in shooting, 5/9 to 3 pts). But it was only for a few minutes, up to a new basket in penetration of the untenable Musa, with the fault, to give four lengths ahead of his own (84-80) and ends a 10-0 which surely cost the match to the Parisians.
Paris, if skillful at the start of the match, did not enter a shot for almost two thirty at the start of the fourth quarter, while Real was growing hard to drive the nail. Hifi, who brilliantly took the relay of shorts, did not abdicate by bringing his team back to height several times. However, it was too alone to avoid a cruel defeat in the face of the experience of the White House players, who went to seek points in the racket with the giant Edy Tavares, and “Super Dario” Hezonja to seal their success, 105-104, despite a last shoot at the Buzzer of the French international rear, which will have really tried everything.
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