Andreas Obst and Carsen Edwards led their team to its 16th win
Bayern beats ASVEL for fourth straight win, 76-67

FC Bayern Munich finished a perfect double-round week by downing LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne 76-67 at SAP Garden in Round 26 on Thursday. Bayern improved to 16-10 in the standings, is on a four-game winning streak and 11-2 in front of its fans this season. ASVEL dropped to 11-15 after losing its last three games.
Andreas Obst led the winners with 15 points. Carsen Edwards added 14 while Vladimir Lucic had 10 points and 8 rebounds for Bayern. Paris Lee paced ASVEL with 14 points, Joffrey Lauvergne added 12 while Neal Sako had 10 for the visitors.
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Theo Maledon got ASVEL going with a three-pointer and Andre Roberson added back-to-back layups for a 2-7 lead. Oscar da Silva stepped up with a put-back basket that a red-hot Roberson matched with a driving layup. Edwards stepped up for the hosts and da Silva scored twice around the basket to give Bayern an 11-9 edge. Sako found his first points and Danko Brankovic banked in a close shot before Nando De Colo restored a 13-14 ASVEL lead. Obst struck from downtown and Brankovic's layup gave the hosts an 18-15 lead. De Colo and Obst each buried one from beyond the arc, then Niels Giffey's layup made 23-18 after 10 minutes.
Brankovic kept pacing Bayern with a put-back layup early in the second quarter. ASVEL was held scoreless for 4 minutes when Giffey beat Maledon in the low post to give his team a 27-18 Bayern lead. Maledon tried to change things with a one-handed floater in the lane that Lucic erased with a turnaround jumper. Elias Harris scored down low and Edwards's driving layup caused ASVEL to call timeout at 33-20. Johannes Voigtmann buried a corner triple that capped a mammoth 18-2 run, as David Lighty stepped up with a layup. Harris dunked, Sako scored in transition and Lee followed a three-pointer with a buzzer-beating midcourt shot off the glass, bringing ASVEL within 38-30 at halftime.
Joffrey Lauvergne scored around the basket soon after the break. Edwards and Lucic each struck from beyond the arc to restore a double-digit Bayern lead, 44-34. Nick Weiler-Babb scored in penetration and added a wild basket off a spin move to boost his team's lead to 48-34. Lee stepped up with a driving layup that Obst bettered with a catch-and-shoot triple. Weiler-Babb joined the three-point shootout and De Colo downed a mid-range jumper before Sako gave ASVEL hope at 54-41. Brankovic took over with an alley-oop dunk that Giffey followed with a jumper. De Colo and Roberson each struck from downtown to get ASVEL closer, 58-47, after three quarters.
Lucic beat the shot clock with a corner triple early in the fourth quarter. Obst buried his fourth triple to boost Bayern's margin to 64-48 with more than 8 minutes left. Lee and Lighty joined the three-point shootout for a 64-54 score. Voigtmann and Lucic rescued Bayern, which had already started to use longer possessions to run the game clock down. Lauvergne made a three-pointer and added a fastbreak dunk to make it a single-digit game, 67-59. Lauvergne hit a jump hook that Edwards matched with free throws. Lucic found Voigtmann for an alley-oop layup that sealed the outcome, 71-61, in the next-to-last minute.