By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
After nine road defeats, Galatasaray got the 74-65 win in Belgrade against Crvena Zvezda and EA7 Milano got its first win in Top16 also on the road with Liga Endesa’s leader Unicaja Malaga being the victim (84-77).
The last seven minutes in the game at Kombank Arena belonged to the Turkish team and Justin Carter who scored all 10 of his points in the 4,5 minutes remaining on the clock. That’s how an one point lead (53-52) ended up being a double digits advantage (63-53) and Zvezda just couldn’t react.
In Spain the situation was similar. With two minutes left, Unicaja cut the lead of EA7 Milano to two (73-71) and the answer was two threes by Linas Kleiza and Joe Rangland, a dunk by Samardo Samuels and finally Daniel Hackett with 1/2 free throws completed a 9-1 run (82-72) 27 seconds before the final buzzer. Alessandro Gentile with 20 points and Linas Kleiza with 15 were the leaders of Milano.