The epic once again smiled at the talent, in this case that of Nikola Mirotic. The azulgrana, who Saras Jasikevicius said a few days ago that he was still in preseason, pulled a new trick out of his hat and scored one of those baskets within the reach of the chosen ones on the horn. An unimaginable triple that forced extra time against Red Star in a game that was a huge battle for more than two hours. In addition, Barça governed, which is already co-leader of the Euroleague.
The duel was marked by the constant alternatives on the scoreboard. The first quarter was for the Catalans and they had advantages of up to fifteen points (19-34). But the Serbs recovered to be better in the next two, until leaving twelve up by the score (72-60).
However, a brilliant reaction from Barça, based on the outside success of Mirotic, Abrines or Sanli himself, caused the game to go to extra time (84-84).
In extra time, without Jasikevicius, sent off for two consecutive techniques, Barça maintained the trend, solid at the back and on the rebound, and in attack they relied on the reliability of Higgins, Satoransky and Mirotic to seal the comeback despite the solitary resistance of Nedovic. The final free throw carousel allowed them to close the match with some ease (94-99).
With this fantastic result, Barça completes a streak of three victories in the Euroleague that allows it to rise to first place, along with Baskonia and Monaco, all with 16 wins
94 - Red Star (17 23 25 19 10): Vildoza (-), Nedovic (24), Lazarevic (-), Mitrovic (18), Petrusev (24) -initial team-, Holland (7), Lazic (-) , Dobric (14), Ilic (-), Markovic (3), Kuzmic (-) and Bentil (4).
99 - Barça (28 15 14 27 15): Satoransky (19), Laprovittola (7), Kalinic (7), Mirotic (12), Vesely (10) -initial team-, Da Silva (3), Sanli (10) , Abrines (14), Higgins (15), Tobey (-), Kuric (-) and Jokubaitis (2).
Referees: Robert Lottermoser (ALE), Emin Mogulkoc (TUR) and Aare Halliko (EST). They sent off the visiting coach Sarunas Jasikevicius with two technical fouls (min.41) and eliminated local Petrusev with five personal (min.45).
Incidents: game of the sixteenth day of the Euroleague played at the Aleksandar Nikolic Hall in Belgrade before some 8,000 people. The match started four minutes late because the public threw confetti onto the court during the preliminaries.
