Bitci Baskonia conceded a severe defeat against Unics Kazan (83-69) in the party of the day six of the Euroleague who played in Russia. The balance of the Baskonia team is three victories and three defeats.
The first basket of the match was scored by UNICS Kazan, although Baskonia responded quickly with a triple (2-3). Later, the local team achieved a four-point lead (7-3) to which the Vitoria team responded with another three-point basket (7-6). However, from that moment on, Unics Kazan prevailed on the court, was superior and the first ten minutes ended with a score of 24-17 friendly to locals.
In the second quarter came the Baskonia debacle. Unics hit the triple shots, Bsaskonia could not stop the attacks of their rival and was not very successful in attack, to the point that the Basque team only scored 6 points in the entire quarter. With a run of 24-6 for the Russian team, the clash came into the break with a 25-point deficit for Baskonia (48-25).
The game was very uphill for Baskonia after their bad second quarter. In the resumption, the Basque team jumped onto the field with the aim of reducing their disadvantage, but the rival continued to be much superior. Those of Dusko Ivanovic could only get closer to 16 points, and reached the last quarter with a disadvantage of 22 points. (66-44).
In the final stage, Baskonia made up the result a bit, as Unics Kazan slowed down. Even so, the defeat of the Baskonia team was bulky and the match ended with a score of 83-69.
Datasheet:
83 – UNICS Boiler (24+24+18+17): Lorenzo Brown (6), Brantley (11), Hezonja (8), Vorontsevich (14) and John Brown (14) -starting five-, Spissu (5), Canaan (9), Klimenko (-), Uzinskii (6) , Jekiri (6), Mayo (4) and Komolov (-).
69 – Battles of the Basque Country (17 + 6 + 21 + 25): Granger (8), Baldwin (23), Fontecchio (4), Sedekerskis (11) and Nnoko (-) -starting five-, Barrera (-), Marinkovic (3), Enoch (-), Costello (18) and Kurucs (2).
Referees: Ilija Belosevic (Serbia), Jakub Zamojski (Poland) and Milos Koljensic (Montenegro). No eliminations.
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