Baskonia cannot beat Milan (89-83)

Euskaraz irakurri: Baskoniak ezin izan du Milan mendean hartu (89-83)

The Baskonia Cazoo added a new stumble in this month of January in the Regular Phase of the Euroleague 2022-2023 when falling this Tuesday for 89-83 during the visit to the Mediolanum Forum, home of the bottom runner up in the competition, an EA7 Emporio Armani Milano, in front of which he revealed his current doubts.

The Baskonia team finished in great tune in 2022, but in the new year it is going through a crisis of play and results that resulted in the fifth defeat in the Lombard capital in the last six European games, a setback that It takes you further away from the top positions in the table and aggravated by being against the last classified, who had not yet won in 2023.

Baskonia left behind the tremendous offensive power shown last week against Efes at the start in the locker room. Armani Milan did not take advantage of it too much, but they did take the game to a field where they can move better given their problems this season. The bad game from the triple (8/32) and on the rebound (39 to 26) weighed down a team where Darius Thompson (19 points) and Rokas Giedraitis (18) stood out.

Joan Penarroya could count on Markus Howard finally, but their main scorer was not entirely successful, with a discreet 2/10 in the triple. Thompson was better, especially in the opening quarter, where he contributed 10 of his team’s 17 points, where there was also room for debut of newly signed Max Heidegger.

Data sheet:

89 – Emporio Armani Milan (18+22+22+27): Hall (6), Luwawu-Cabarrot (19), Baron (11), Voigtmann (16) and Hines (10) -starting five-, Ricci (4), Tonut (2), Napier (10) and Davies (9) .

83 – Cazoo Baskonia (17+17+26+23): Thompson (19), Howard (18), Giedraitis (18), Hommes (2) and Kotsar (-) -starting five-, Heidegger (-), Marinkovic (7), Sedekerskis (-), Enoch (7), Costello (12) and Kurucs (-).

Referees: Ilija Belosevic (SRB), Gytis Vilius (LTU), Gentian Cici (ALB). No deleted.