By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
At halftime and with his team down 53 – 40 to Baskonia, Crvena Zvezda coach Dusan Alimpijevic said that his players needed to turn up the aggressive in order to come back in the game.
Yet the Basques were too relentless, almost ferocious in their attacks. Nothing could stop them and they ended up dropping 103 points against their opponents’ 84 in order to clinch their second win in a row and 10th overall in 21 games of the EuroLeague regular season.
The main executor for the hosts was no other than Rodrigue Beaubois. True to his “Roddy Buckets” nickname, the French guard abused most of his defenders, especially Taylor Rochestie and scored abundantly to finish with a season-high 25 points.
Who knows how much more could he drop if he stayed on the floor more than 22:30 minutes?
He wasn’t alone. Matt Janning added 18 points (6/11 threes) and Patricio Garino a season-high 12. 10 out of the 12 players that Baskonia head coach Pedro Martinez used contributed in scoring while Marcelinho Huertas (7 points, 7 assists) and Jayson Granger (10 points, 6 assists) served them freely with dimes.
One week after the triumph over Olympiacos, Crvena Zvezda suffered a loss that may have put an end to their playoff dreams since they are now 8 – 13. If there’s a silver lining for the ABA League champions in this game, that’s Dylan Ennis’ team-high 22 points. The Canadian guard showed that last Friday’s game-winning performance vs. Olympiacos wasn’t a one-hit wonder.