Jun 04, 2021 by Euroleague.net Print
Bayern clinches place in German finals
FC Bayern Munich is the first finalist of the German League playoff after holding off Ludwigsburg 82-73 in Game 4 of their best-of-five series. Bayern won the series 3-1 and will now face either ALBA Berlin or ratiopharm Ulm in the playoff finals. Bayern took control from the get-go, but only kept a slim margin throughout the first half and held 41-34 at halftime. Robin Amaize strung together 8 points early in the third quarter to open 49-37 lead, but the visitors rallied to tie it at 57-57 to end the quarter. But Amaize gave Bayern more breathing room to open the fourth before the team hit five consecutive three-pointers, Zan Mark Sisko and Amaize knocked one each first, then Wade Baldwin hit back-to-back, before a triple from James Gist made it 82-68 with 2 minutes to go, sealing the deal. Amaize netted 16 points, Gist scored 11, while JaJuan Johnson and Vladimi
Zenit holds off depleted Zvezda in a thriller
Kevin Pangos netted a career-high 25 points, including a game-winning three-pointer with 27 seconds to go, to give Zenit St Petersburg a hard-fought 75-76 win over Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade on Friday night in the Serbian capital. In a battle that went down to the wire, Zenit snapped a three-game losing streak and improved to 14-9, while Zvezda dropped to 7-17 on the season. Zenit led by as many as 15 points in the first half, and held a double-digit lead late in the third quarter, but Zvezda rallied behind Ognjen Dobric and Dejan Davidovac. The teams traded leads the rest of the way, before Pangos hit a second-chance triple after Mateusz Ponitka s offensive rebound, lifting Zenit to an important win. Pangos finished with 25 points on 5-for-6 three-point shooting and 7 assists, and was the only Zenit double-digit scorer. Zvezda s Jordan Loyd scored 17 of his 21 points in the first half, and Dobric netted all of his 13 points in the secon
Jan 19, 2021 by Euroleague.net Print
After getting snowed out of the Spanish capital last week, Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade returned on Monday for its rescheduled Round 19 game with mighty Real Madrid and proceeded to play what is arguably its best game all season.
Without leading scorer Jordan Loyd or starting point guard Langston Hall, Zvezda put on a defensive masterpiece in taming the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague s best home-court offense for a 77-79 road win. That was almost 10 points below Real s league-leading 86.7 points at the WiZink Center coming into Monday night.
Perhaps the least surprised person at WiZink on Monday was the losing coach, Pablo Laso, who remembered before the game Zvezda s last appearance there, an 83-87 victory back in December 2017 against that season s eventual champions. That time, Zvezda set its own club record in the EuroLeague with 17 three-pointers made.