By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Thanks to a 2-10 partial score in the last three minutes, Baskonia managed to beat Bilbao 64 – 75 on the road and improve its Spanish League record to 21 – 9, catching up with Barcelona at the third seed.
This defeat completely trimmed the playoff hopes of Bilbao, that is currently ninth with 14 – 16. Eighth Andorra (16 – 14 record) mathematically got the postseason ticket.
Adam Hanga was a captain indeed for Baskonia in the decisive plays of the final minutes where he scored five out of his 12 points, including the 3-point “dagger” for the 64 – 74 with 52 seconds remaining.
Rodrigue Beaubois led the winners with 18 while Tornike Shengelia had 12. The top performer of Baskonia was Johannes Voigtmann after 6 points, 10 rebounds plus 4 assists.
For Bilbao, Ivan Buva had 15 points plus 8 rebounds and Alex Mumbru scored 11.