Euroleague Regular Season Round 10

Euroleague Regular Season

Galatasaray celebrate

The Euroleague Regular Season will be done and dusted this week, with the best 16 teams from the group stages heading off to the Christmas break knowing that their European adventure will continue in the elite competition. Round 10 of the competition will also finalize which teams will make up those spaces and which would drop down into the Eurocup… not a bad consolation prize.

Group A
Real Madrid and Anadolu Efes fought it out in Group A to decide which club would claim first place in the standings. Efes had inflicted Madrid’s first defeat of the season back in Round 5, but Los Blancos exacted revenge at home to sweep aside the Turkish visitors 90-70. The Spanish club had six players score in double digits as they restricted Efes to just nine fourth quarter points to ease to the top of Group A.

Group B
Group B had already been sorted out, but the clubs jostled for position in the final week of the Euroleague Regular Season. CSKA Moscow completed the season as the only team with an untouched record courtesy of a cruising 88-56 home win over Limoges. The French champions finished last of the group with a 2-8 record. In the other game, reigning champions Maccabi Tel Aviv ended the group season on a high with an 81-73 win over Unicaja Malaga, a loss that pushed the Spaniards down into fourth, although they too had already qualified.

Group C
EA7 Milan had already ensured fourth place in Group C, but the Italian champions put a finishing gloss to the Euroleague Regular Season with a big 96-101 road win over down and out PGE Turow. A thrilling encounter saw a game where the buckets rained, but the visitors always stayed one step ahead on the scoreboard. Linas Kleiza was the big scorer for Milan as he drove the Italians with 29 points 8 from 13 at three point range.

Group D
Fourth place in Group D was still to play for tonight and it would be decided with either Neptunas Klaipeda or Galatasaray Liv Hospital Istanbul progressing. By the end of the action the Turkish club had progressed after a 79-74 win over Greek powerhouse Olympiacos. The hosts recovered from a 36-38 losing first half and won the game on the back of a big 21-12 charge in the third frame. Carlos Arroyo was his typical dominant self for Galatasaray with 24 points in the game.

It was a night of heartbreak for Neptunas as the club fell at the last hurdle, on the end of a 103-65 road beating at the hands of Eurocup champs Valencia. The Lithuanian team was bested all over the court as Valencia put more than 20 points on the board through each quarter. The Spanish hosts had seven players post scores in double figures to cap a dominant display.

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