Monaco showed the way for Paris basketball. 24 hours from a very important match in Panathinaikos in the fight for the qualification in the play-off or play-in of Parisians in Euroligue, the club at the Rock achieved a very big performance this Thursday evening by winning (77-80) with a Greek tenor in the old contains, the Olympiakos, during the 32nd and antepenultimate day. Faced with the regular season leader, the ASM took a good start (15-23) before squandering its advance in the 2nd quarter (22-12).
Everything is played in the last quarter. The Monegasques finally take the ascendant in the last minutes thanks to an imperial blossomgame jaron (18 points at 5/6 at the shoots). Less in successful shots (11), the master to play Mike James still feasted by delivering 12 assists. With a 20th victory on the clock, Monaco reinforces its 4th place synonymous with qualification for the quarter-finals of Play-Off (the first six).
The defeats of Partizan (11th) in Bayern Munich (89-74) and Milan (12th) at home against Barcelona (88-98) do the business of Paris Basketball which will keep its 10th place synonymous with Play-in (the first 10) at the end of the 32nd day. After a trip to the “Pana”, the reigning European champion, this Friday, the men of Tiago Splitter will move to Real Madrid (9th) and then receive the Alba Berlin (18th and last) in the last two days.