Faith, concentration, a lot of basketball and defense. That was The recipe used by Barça by Joan Peñarroya to reverse that 2-0 against As Monaco with which they arrived at the Palau and return the tie to the Principality with a draw at 2. Because if they already managed to sign a good game on Wednesday, this Friday has even been more, before an as Monaco who, although he had a bad start, ended up re -enacting the game in search of options that, finally, Jabari Parker and Darío Brizuela were responsible for dissipating. The culés take the victory (79-72) and are a single triumph of the Final Four of Abu Dhabi.
The reality is that Barça’s staging was Excelsa. Because Mike James scored the 2-3 that put the As Monaco ahead, from there what was given was a first quarter of absolute Barca dominance, with a 15-0 partial with eight points of a Jabari Parker who threw the team behind his back in attack and forced Vassilis Spanoulis to stop the game. It was Jaiteh who managed to break the Monegasque drought at 4:35 at the end of the room (15-4), but when the reaction of Spanoulis began, it was with 21-6 on the scoreboard, when they signed an 8-0 partial that, yes, did not intimidate the culés that closed the room with 23-14 (and 11 parker points).
He As Monaco had come out with many doubts And few ideas before a Barça centered and convinced of how he had to play. But the reality is that this changed in the second quarter, with a partial visitor of 12-4, when they uploaded the physicist and aggressiveness and Barça began to suffer fault problems. Above all, in a soap parker which saw two in a row and added the third that forced him to go to the bench. And so He took advantage of it all over alpha diallo, who was being tireless at the defensive level, to put the +3 After Blossomgame put, for the first time after the initial 2-3, his ahead.
The game was in a pull and loosenbut the faults continued to ballast to Barça. So much, that Brizuela’s anger -Practically unstoppable from the outer shot- it was evidenced when, after seeing two fouls, Peñarroya left him sitting in a dead time and said that of “Darío you are with two … and that the third one also costs you, we are going”, when the scorer lucked 33-32 to 46.3 seconds of the break. And here the game was muddy … for the faults and arbitration decisions, which ended up making the As Monaco put the 35-38 with which the duel went to restafter Satoransky saw the lack and technique in the same action and gave Strazel three shots that he did not fail.
Barça’s mosqueo with arbitration was brutal. Hence that “when you play against players who are above the regulation it is very difficult to play,” said Darío Brizuela to the break. And the reality is that if they had to do the Culés it was to change the chip to prevent that from taking them out of the game after the recess … and they did so. Barça rose a point of aggressiveness in defense and that made the distance be reduced –The As Monaco came to put the +8 with 36-44– To the point that The duel went to the last ten minutes with 58 draw on the scoreboard.
Eli Okobo inaugurated the room with a good basket, which Brizuela soon responded with another of a lot of classafter which he managed to get the fault in attack on the Monegasque player (the fourth) and the second by the way he achieved, after doing the same with Loyd as soon as he started, in this period. The emotions were in the skin of leather and thus it was seen with the technique to Alpha diallo to protest, which put Barça ahead (61-60). And it is that the arbitral shots had changed and much about the first half. And if The huge step forward that Brizuela had given was added to the balance of criteria, As he saw with the 2 +1 he took after it to put the +4, it was confirmed that the game was another story.
While, Diallo reappeared. First with a mate and then with a 2+1 after winning the rebound to the culés, which made the Monaco put only one point and a half minutes after the end (66-65). Five consecutive points of Jabari Parker (key to yours), who signed with a triple, put +6, but again, Diallo pulled doll to place the difference again. Willy Hernangómez, who has two games with a lot of strength, expanded again to +5 from the free kick, but Mike James threw picaresque to steal a ball and end up scoring at pleasure (73-70) three minutes from the end.
As Monaco kept rowing, but anxiety was spending too much bill. So much that errors were arriving in the easiest baskets. Although he had made the difference remain in three in the last minute. Okobo tried three and failed. The rebound was from Loyd, who also tried three … and also failed. And the ball ended up being out of the background. There were 27.2 seconds for the end and possession was for Barça with 75-72 on the scoreboard. The Monegascos tried to defend without fail … but Okobo ended up committing her (her fifth), sending Kevin Punter, who did not fail, to the free kick line with 14.9 seconds ahead (77-72). And although those of Spanoulis tried … there was no way (79-72).
There will be fifth game on Tuesday in Monaco (7:00 p.m.), After a great game of a Barça that had its downturn in the second quarter, but signed three excellent quarters to also take the second victory in the Palau.
