FC Bayern Munich never trailed en route to a 68-77 win at LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne in their rescheduled Round 18 contest on Tuesday night. The win improved Bayern's record to 10-11, while ASVEL dropped to 9-12 on the season. Bayern took control early and then pulled away to a double-digit margin with a dominant second quarter. ASVEL never got closer than 8 points the rest of the way.
Bayern sinks ASVEL on the road, 68-77
Augustine Rubit shined with 17 points plus 10 rebounds. Ognjen Jaramaz netted 11, while Andreas Obst scored 10 in a victory. Chris Jones led ASVEL with 14 points and 6 assists and Youssoupha Fall also scored 14. James Gist finished with 10 in a losing effort.
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Rubit scored twice inside before a triple from Lucic made it 6-11. Fall had his way inside on the offensive end and Jones made a runner before feeding Dylan Osetkowski for a dunk to cut it to 12-15. Bayern remained in front thanks to a triple from Deshaun Thomas and Zan Mark Sisko beating the buzzer with a floater to make it 16-20.
Fall had another put-back to open the second quarter, but Nick Weiler-Babb once and Hunter twice hit consecutive long jumpers. Obst followed with a triple and a runner to make it 18-31. Jones snapped a 0-11 run by knocking down a jumper and kept ASVEL going with a triple and a dish to Marcos Knight for an easy basket to get the margin to 25-33. But Jaramaz hit a three to restore Bayern's double-digit lead before close-range baskets from Weiler-Babb and Thomas, followed by a last-second triple from Lucic, had Bayern up 29-45 at halftime.
Early in the second half, Leon Radosevic drained a three-pointer that made it an 18-point affair. Knight scored 6 points and Kahudi knocked down a triple for the hosts, but Rubit kept the margin intact with 6 points of his own. Jones scored a runner in traffic and Fall had a layup to get the hosts within 42-54. Bayern scored the last 7 points of the quarter, including 5 from Obst, who had a corner triple and a driving layup to make it 42-61 going into the fourth quarter. Despite a deep hole, ASVEL was not going away. Lacombe scored twice and Osetkowski had a basket before Okobo cut it to 52-64. Jaramaz stopped the visitors' bleeding with a three-pointer, but Jones had a floater and a transition triple to keep ASVEL's hopes alive. Jaramaz got a lucky bounce on another triple to make it 59-72 with just over 4 minutes to go as the visitors closed it out.