Dubai, Milan, Fenerbahce and Olympiacos were all victorious on Thursday night
Game Center: Four road teams secured dubs in Friday's six games
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Friday, October 17
Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade 90-75 Real Madrid
Crvena Zvezda grabbed its second consecutive victory under new head coach Sasa Obradovic – and third in a row overall – by topping Real Madrid 90-75 in front of an outstanding sellout crowd in the Serbian capital in Round 5 on Friday. Both teams now have a 3-2 record in the standings.
Codi Miller-McIntyre and Jordan Nwora paced the winners with 18 points apiece. Miller-McIntyre added 8 rebounds and 8 assists. Chima Moneke added 15 points, Semi Ojeleye had 13 while Nikola Kalinic got 10. Chuma Okeke led Real with 16 points while Mario Hezonja added 15. Real led 20-31 early in the second quarter but Zvezda used a 13-2 run to return to the game and get a 43-39 lead at the break. The hosts boosted their margin to 67-53 at the end of the third quarter and cruised to a well-deserved victory.
AS Monaco 90-84 Valencia Basket
Monaco got back to winning ways by defeating Valencia 90-84 on Friday evening at Salle Gaston Medecin. The hosts started strong on both ends, grabbing an early 14-6 cushion. Monaco extended its lead to double digits in the second quarter, enjoying a 20-point lead at halftime (57-37). Valencia fought back and outscored Monaco 14-25 in the third, but Vassilis Spanoulis’s side maintained its advantage throughout and improved their record to 3-2.
Alpha Diallo paced Monaco with 16 points, while Nikola Mirotic and Matthew Strazel netted 15 and 14, respectively. Brancou Badio led all scorers with a season-high 18 points and Josep Puerto scored 13, with Nathan Reuvers recording a double-double of 10 points and 10 assists as Valencia dropped to 2-3.
Anadolu Efes Istanbul 81-95 Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens
Panathinaikos completed a perfect double-round week with an 81-95 road win at Efes on Friday. The Greens took control with a 16-0 run bridging the third and fourth quarters, opening a 21-point lead and cruising to a win that improved them to 4-1, tied for the league-best record. Meanwhile, Efes dropped to 2-3 on the season, but more importantly lost big man Georgios Papagiannis to a nasty-looking knee injury and Ercan Osmani to a shoulder injury.
Cedi Osman shined for the Greens with a career-high 29 points on a career-best 6-of-10 three-point shooting. Omer Yurtseven scored all 15 of his points in the first half while Kostas Sloukas orchestrated the offense with 12 assists. Shane Larkin had 18 points for Efes and PJ Dozier scored 15 in a losing effort.
LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne 83-90 Virtus Bologna
Virtus completed a perfect double-round sweep against French teams by battling past ASVEL 83-90 on the road. The game was tight throughout until Virtus wrestled control of the game with a 0-13 run spanning the final two quarters for a seven-point lead. ASVEL could not knot the game again and Carsen Edwards ended any doubts with three free throws with 50 seconds left for a career-high 36 points.
Alessandro Pajola added 14 points with 4 three-pointers, Alen Smailagic chipped in 13 points and Karim Jallow had 10 points and 7 rebounds for Virtus, which beat Monaco on Wednesday and has now improved to 3-2. ASVEL has now dropped three in a row for a 1-4 record despite Glynn Watson scoring 24 points.
Paris Basketball 88-89 Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv
In a game that was played at turbo-speed from tipoff at Adidas Arena, Hapoel defeated Paris by a single point, 88-89. Tyler Ennis scored the clutch free throws to secure the slim victory before Elijah Bryant’s defensive rebound clinched it. The teams swapped leads throughout, but ultimately Hapoel worked as a team to get the job done.
Dan Oturu added 9 boards and 1 assist to an 18-point scoring performance, leading the way for his team. Meanwhile, Bryant, Johnathan Motley, Antonio Blakeney and Vasilije Micic finished in double figures. The result was hard luck on Nadir Hifi, who put in a clutch performance down the stretch, but it simply wasn’t to be. The win for Hapoel moved Dimitris Itoudis's men to 4-1 in EuroLeague while Paris fell to 3-2.
Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 79-91 Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade
Partizan engineered an 79-91 win at Baskonia to improve to 3-2, break a 24-year winless jinx at Buesa Arena and keep the Spanish side rooted to the bottom of the standings on a 0-5 record. Carlik Jones paced Partizan on 18 points and Dwayne Washington added 17 while Hamidou Diallo netted 20 and Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot scored 19 for Baskonia.
Partizan made a bright start and took an early 2-8 lead before the hosts beefed up their defense and hit back with their own 8-0 streak, nosing ahead 16-13 but the visitors had the last laugh in the first quarter as they closed it out with a 20-22 advantage. The lead kept changing hands in a see-saw first half as Baskonia scored a barrage of close-range points while Partizan was prolific from downtown, hitting 7 of 11 in the first half to lead 40-48 at the interval on the back of 9 offensive boards. Galvanized by a monstrous Tyrique Jones dunk, Partizan pulled away into a 47-63 lead midway through the third quarter but a pair of three-pointers from Clement Frisch allowed Baskonia to slash the deficit to 64-66 ahead of the final 10 minutes. It was a tit-for-tat battle in the fourth quarter and Partizan then prevailed in a fast-paced finish to grind out its first road win of the season.
Thursday, October 16
Dubai Basketball 83-78 FC Barcelona
Dubai grabbed its second win of the week by downing Barcelona, 83-78. The host took a double-digit first quarter lead behind Mfiondu Kabengele and Filip Petrusev, but Barca gradually fought back to go ahead after consecutive slams by Toko Shengelia, and a pair of Joel Parra three-balls helped make it 33-34 at the break. Petrusev’s personal 7-0 run kept Dubai close in the third quarter, which ended with several lead changes before Dwayne Bacon sent the host ahead, 58-56. A flurry of triples gave Dubai a 71-63 lead midway through the fourth, and Barca’s misfiring offense could not get ahead again.
Petrusev topped the scoring with 23 points and also added 8 rebounds, while Kabengele had a double-double of 10 points and 13 boards. Bacon added 20 points and backcourt teammate McKinley Wright IV netted 11 points with 6 assists. Barca was held to its lowest points total of the season as only two players scored in double digits, with Shengelia joined by Dario Brizuela on 19 points. Both teams are now tied near the top of the standings with a 3-2 record.
Zalgiris Kaunas 78-89 EA7 Emporio Armani Milan
Milan rallied from a 16-point deficit to beat Zalgiris Kaunas 78-89 on the road in Round 5 on Thursday. Milan improved to 2-3 in the standings, stopping a three-game losing skid, while Zalgiris dropped to 3-2.
Quinn Ellis, Giampaolo Ricci, Shavon Shields and Devin Booker led the winners with 15 points apiece. Marko Guduric added 14 while Leandro Bolmaro had 10 for Milan, which fired in 12-of-21 three-point shots. Arnas Butkevicius paced Zalgiris with 20 points, all of which came in the first half on 6-of-7 three-pointers. Moses Wright and Nigel Williams-Goss each added 15 points while Azuolas Tubelis had 14 for the hosts, who led 31-15 midway through the second quarter.
Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul 88-73 FC Bayern Munich
Fenerbahce bounced back from three straight losses to grind out an 88-73 home win over Bayern, leaning on tight defense to get the job done as Mikael Jantunen paced the champs with 15 points, shooting 5 of 6 from downtown. Scotttie Wilbekin netted 14 points for Fenerbahce, Wade Baldwin chipped in with 13 and Devon Hall added 10 to engineer an eighth successive win over Bayern, as Andi Obst, Wenyen Gabriel and Isaiah Mike amassed 13 points each for the visitors.
Bayern made a brighter start and took a 14-20 lead at the end of the first quarter as the home side looked completely disjointed. Fenerbahce turned the tide with a 20-7 run in the second with Wilbekin coming to the fore from long range, and the hosts then held on for a 37-32 advantage at halftime. Fenerbahce moved up a gear after the break and led 62-46 ahead of the final 10 minutes, with Hall sinking 5 successive points early in the third quarter to give the hosts some breathing space. The writing was on the wall for the visitors after Baldwin and Wilbekin sank successive threes at the start of the fourth quarter, and Fenerbahce was in cruise control for the rest of the contest.
Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv 94-95 Olympiacos Piraeus
Olympiacos finished the game on a 1-14 run to stun Maccabi 94-95 at Aleksandar Nikolic Hall in Belgrade after trailing for nearly all of the game. Sasha Vezenkov scored the game's final 5 points and the Reds celebrated after Lonnie Walker missed at the buzzer for Maccabi. The result was Olympiacos's sixth straight win over Maccabi and boosted its record to 3-2, while dropping Maccabi to 1-4.
Vezenkov finished with 23 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Reds while center Nikola Milutinov also scored 23 and Tyler Dorsey tallied 18 points and 5 assists. Jeff Dowtin Jr. led Maccabi with a personal-best 24 points and Walker netted 15 in defeat.