Goodbye to the dream of the Euroleague. Valencia Basket mathematically buried all its options to stay alive and sneak into the top eight. Mumbrú’s team said goodbye to the highest competition through the back door, dragged down by its lousy dynamics. Seven losses in the last eight games they were an insurmountable slab for the ‘taronja’ team. Zalgiris Kaunas is still alive. His dream is to play the next round and his great desire is to be able to play in the Euroleague final four, which is played in his pavilion. A boiler, in the fifteenth full house, also passed over Valencia Basket. The Lithuanian team was led by Butkevicius, author of eleven points and a PIR of 21. But the merit of the local team was that six of his men broke the 10-point barrier. At Valencia Basket, Jasiel Rivero stood out, with 18 points and a PIR of 23, and Webb III, with 18 points and a PIR of 20, but his success was not enough.
The first quarter was marked by the success of Web II and Jasiel Rivero, who they scored 14 of the 16 points with which Valencia closed the first quarter. With Dubljevic injured, Mumbrú missed a ‘five’ that stuck with the interiors of Zalgiris. The Valencian team was served by Rivero’s success, with nine points, so as not to leave at the first exchange of the game.
The second quarter was a roller coaster for Valencia Basket, who came to command the scoreboard for the first time and left at halftime with a twelve-point deficit (52-40). Valencia began to see the ring as a pool thanks to the success of Shannon Evans, unstoppable from the triple. His 13 points, almost consecutive, allowed the Valencian team to endorse their rival with a 2-9 run and sneak ahead on the scoreboard (23-35). But in another rush from Zalgiris and after many losses, Valencia fell behind. A 16-4 run, just before the break, put the game uphill for those from Mumbrú.
Valencia no longer got up from the canvas. In fact, he allowed himself to be carried away by the energy and foreign success of his rival, capable of closing the third quarter with an income of 19 points. Mumbrú’s team had a hard time defending and attacking. Meanwhile, each failure of Valencia was punished from triple by its rival. The Lithuanian team found a mine with the launches of three, many of them over the buzzer, where it hurts the most. zalgiris He finished the third quarter with a 50% hit rate, but his virtue was finding the moment to hit the target.
The last quarter was a martyrdom for Valencia, already eliminated and crying out for the end of the game. The orange box was able to make up their defeat a bit thanks to the success of Puerto from outside. A 2-11 run served, at least, to say goodbye to the Euroleague with honor, although Valencia still has two games left to close the previous phase, already inconsequential for the Valencians.
| 51 Arnas Butkevicius |
| 17 Ignas Brazdekis |
| 10 Rolands Smiths |
| 1 isaiah taylor |
| 92 Edgaras Ulanovas |
| 4 Lukas Lekavicius |
| 25 achille polonara |
| fifteen Laurynas Birutis |
| 16 Karolis Lukosiunas |
| 33 Thomas Dimsa |
| 8 Kevarrius Hayes |
| 3 Dovydas Giedraitis |
| Min | pts | RT | RO | DR | Ast | Per | rec | Tap | T1 | T2 | T3 | FR | CF | Val | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 Arnas Butkevicius | 26 | eleven | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4/4 | 2/2 | 1/2 | 2 | 0 | twenty-one | |
| 17 Ignas Brazdekis | 25 | fifteen | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 5/7 | 1/3 | 2 | 0 | 16 | |
| 10 Rolands Smiths | 18 | eleven | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1/1 | 23 | 2/5 | 3 | 4 | eleven | |
| 1 isaiah taylor | 16 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 3/4 | 2/2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| 92 Edgaras Ulanovas | 23 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0/0 | 23 | 0/1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
| 4 Lukas Lekavicius | 23 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3/4 | 2/5 | 3/4 | 7 | 2 | 18 | |
| 25 achille polonara | 22 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1/2 | 1/1 | 1/3 | 2 | 0 | twenty | |
| fifteen Laurynas Birutis | fifteen | 8 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 4/4 | 0/0 | 2 | 1 | 13 | |
| 16 Karolis Lukosiunas | eleven | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 4/7 | 0 | 2 | 8 | |
| 33 Thomas Dimsa | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/2 | 0 | 2 | -4 | |
| 8 Kevarrius Hayes | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 0 | 2 | -1 | |
| 3 Dovydas Giedraitis | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 5 J.Webb III |
| 12 jonah radebaugh |
| 41 Jasiel Rivero |
| 2 Josep Puerto |
| 7 chris jones |
| 13 Shannon Evans |
| 0 Jared Harper |
| 6 Xabi López-Arostegui |
| 4 Jaime Pradilla |
| 1 Victor Claver |
| twenty-one kyle alexander |
| 24 martin hermannsson |
| Min | pts | RT | RO | DR | Ast | Per | rec | Tap | T1 | T2 | T3 | FR | CF | Val | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 J.Webb III | 24 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 3/4 | 4/8 | 0 | 0 | twenty | |
| 12 jonah radebaugh | twenty | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/3 | 0 | 2 | -1 | |
| 41 Jasiel Rivero | 19 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/2 | 8/8 | 0/0 | 4 | 3 | 23 | |
| 2 Josep Puerto | 13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/2 | 2/2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 7 chris jones | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | |
| 13 Shannon Evans | 27 | fifteen | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1/1 | 4/6 | 2/4 | 3 | 3 | 17 | |
| 0 Jared Harper | twenty | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2/4 | 1/3 | 0/5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | |
| 6 Xabi López-Arostegui | 16 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2/2 | 1/3 | 1/1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | |
| 4 Jaime Pradilla | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 0 | 3 | -4 | |
| 1 Victor Claver | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | |
| twenty-one kyle alexander | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0/0 | 2/4 | 0/1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | |
| 24 martin hermannsson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |