Partizan Belgrade won Euroleague game against Paris with result of 92:86. Black and whites won not only dangerous very good opponent but also Euroleague referees who were shocking and tried everything they can to help away side, but fail. I personally think they scored between 10 and 15 points for away side tonight!
Match started with Paris lead, quick basketball, all 3 pointers went it and away side quickly went around 10 points up, but the best coach on European continent Zeljko Obradovic calmed down his squad and they quickly came closer with result, but then referees started to make shocking decisions to give them 3 free throws for nothing and to make other obvious mistakes and they managed to increase lead again, but club from Belgrade cut difference to only 5 points until the end of first period.
Then in second half Partizan started to bombard them with 3 pointers with something incredible something like 70% of successful attempts and despite away side played also good Partizan ended half time with 5 or 6 points lead. Isaac Bonga was the best player in that very good first half.
Third period started more less the same with Partizan hitting for 3, but Paris didn't quit and leveled the score. Few missed free throws of Belgrade team and few easy baskets by away side and they were level before you could say cheese. Black and whites then made couple of very good attacks and took lead again and were able to keep 3-6 point lead most of the time. They started to take rebounds after missed shots better, to play better defense and that helped a lot.
Then in 4th period Aleksej Pokusevski came in and hit two three pointers off the glass and blocked one attempt under our basket to send all fans in hall the trance and to increase lead to unreachable 8 points! Paris was unable to return in the game and lost it. It's important this victory is bigger than loss in Paris so in case of same score at the end Partizan will have advantage.
You can see position for baskets and missed shots of both teams on these two pictures.
After the game Jones and Bonga said that key was to stop fast transition basketball of Paris to control game and that they liked chants of their names, but are on the ground with both legs and will play every next game like it's final like coach demand.
Partizan Belgrade has now 12 wins and 11 losses, with 10 wins and 3 losses in last 13 games. Black and whites are in great form and have good chance to go into play off. Next opponent is local rival Red Star in few days. They are also winning everywhere and that is going to be very interesting match in front of Partizan Belgrade fans!
Congratulations to coach,staff and all players on this big victory!
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