Prepelic and Evans elevate Valencia Basket against Bayern
MADRID, 31 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Valencia Basket achieved this Tuesday something unprecedented in its history as the fifth consecutive victory in the Euroleague after beating German Bayern Munich 82-73 at La Fuente de San Luis, thanks to a few minutes of tremendous inspiration led by Shannon Evans and Klemen Prepelic .
The ‘taronja’ team continues to be launched at this time in the Regular Phase of the highest continental competition, where it is presenting its firm candidacy to be in the ‘playoffs’. His twelfth success and the defeat at the Palau del Maccabi, his next rival at La Fonteta, allow him to sleep in the top eight.
And all after a game that began ‘muddy’ and ended in full offensive festival of Alex Mumbrú’s team, especially between the end of the third quarter and the start of the last one where Evans, in his Euroleague debut, and Prepelic They combined to score 15 points in no time and put an end to the resistance of Andrea Trinchieri’s team.
The meeting began with little brilliance and with the errors predominating over the successes. The baskets cost a world and a night of a lot of work was predicted for the locals, who could not impose their usual offensive rhythm. Bayern appealed to their defense, but they also had no continuity in attack for a discreet 16-16 at the end of the first ten minutes and far from the level seen in the first round at the Audi Dome.
In this scenario, the favored team was the Bavarian team that managed to open a small gap (19-24). However, Valencia Basket recovered their aim from the outside, but despite the three-pointers from Harper, Jones and López-Arostegi everything was yet to be decided for the second act (33-32).
The time in the changing rooms was good for both teams, which improved their low offensive performance and began to see the rival basket more easily. Jones, Radebaugh and Puerto were in charge of keeping one on one with the visitors who, with a three pointer from Bonga, led by 47-51.
But from there the party was changing towards the clear color ‘orange’. The locals replied, first, with a 7-0 run to regain control of the game (54-51) and a triple by López-Arostegi was the one that unleashed Mumbrú’s men to break the game when no one expected it.
The success of the Basque forward was followed by one on Evans’s horn, his first three points in the Euroleague, to close the third quarter (61-56), another from Prepelic, a ‘2 1’ from the Slovenian and another two consecutive triples from ex-base of Real Betis. Bayern were not able to score in that flurry, they saw themselves 75-58 and despite Winston’s efforts (22 points), they could not even bring uneasiness to the stands.
–RESULT: VALENCIA BASKETBALL, 82 – BAYERN MUNICH, 73 (33-32, at halftime).
VALENCIA BASKET: Jones (11), Radebaugh (14), Puerto (7), Claver (-) and Alexander (9) –starting five–; Harper (4), Pradilla (6), Webb III (2), López-Arostegui (10), Evans (9) and Prepelic (10).
BAYERN MUNICH: Winston (22), Weiler-Babb (4), Bonga (5), Rubit (3) and Gillespie (6) –starting five–; Walden (4), Giffey (14), Hunter (5), Jaramaz (4) and Seeley (6).
— PARTIALS: 16-14, 17-18, 28-24 and 21-17.
–REFEREES: Latisevs, Rocha and Vyklicky. Gillespie was fouled out.
— PAVILION: La Fonteta.