Real Madrid increased its lead against Baskonia, PAO leveled the series with Maccabi TA – Basketball – Eurotournaments

After the EuroLeague basketball quarter-final playoffs opened with three wins for the visitors in the first legs, some of the hosts – like Panathinaikos – responded and won the second leg. The clovers from Athens achieved a convincing victory with 95:79 (20:28, 31:11, 20:21, 24:19) over Maccabi (Tel Aviv).

Real (Madrid) increased its lead with a new home success over Baskonia – 101:90 (23:21, 23:19, 28:23, 27:27), and now has a lead of 2-0 victories.

Unlike the first meeting in Athens, now Panathinaikos achieved a decisive victory with 95:79 over the Israeli team. Above all for the hosts was Kostas Slukas, who led the hosts with a career-high 29 points. A series of 4:17 points at the end of the third quarter and at the beginning of the fourth allowed Maccabi to cut the home team’s lead to 71:68. But the final minutes were again for the Greens of Athens, who imposed dominance. France’s Mathias Lessor was also instrumental as he had 11 points and 8 rebounds. Ioannis Papapetrou added 15 points for Panathinaikos, while Lorenzo Brown scored 18 points for Maccabi. Jake Cohen and Antonius Cleveland each added 12.

Real (Madrid) is just one win away from the final four after dominating Baskonia 101:90 and already leads by two wins in the series.

In the first quarter of the game, the two teams stuck to a tough battle that went point for point. But in the end, the experienced guard Sergio Lull with a shot from the three-point zone gave Real a lead of 23:21. Vincent Poirier and Faku Campazzo helped Real increase the gap to 46:40 at halftime. Campazzo continued to be the leading figure of the hosts in those minutes of the meeting – before the end of the first part and after the start of the second. He got a lot of help from Gershon Yabusele and Eddie Tavares to take a double-digit lead after 30 minutes of play – 74:763.

At the end of the match, the experienced Llull and Gabriel Dek appeared on the stage again, and they kept the level for Real until the end. The other Argentinian Campazzo led everyone in the statistics with 24 points and 7 assists, Gershon Yabusele remained with 16 and Lull with 13.

For the guests from Baskonia, Vanja Marinkovic was the top scorer with 20 points. The American with a Bulgarian passport in the ranks of the Basque team, Cody Miller-McIntyre, scored 13 points in just under 35 minutes on the court, and also grabbed 6 rebounds – 2 offensively and 4 defensively.