2018-19Regular SeasonRound 22
February 08, 2019 CET: 20:30
Local time: 20:30 FERNANDO BUESA ARENA

Baskonia gets win, tiebreaker over Bayern

KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz registered a huge 76-68 win over visiting FC Bayern Munich at Fernando Buesa Arena on Friday night. Both teams now hold 11-11 records, seventh best in the EuroLeague, but Baskonia holds the all-important head-to-head tiebreaker after overcoming a 6-point loss to Bayern from Round 4. Baskonia never trailed after halftime, but did not have a double-digit margin until an 8-0 run opened a 72-62 lead with 2 and a half minutes left, and the home team took the tiebreaker with a buzzer-beating put-back by Vincent Poirier right at the end. The big man finished with 11 points and 11 rebounds, while Matt Janning led all Baskonia scorers with 13 points. Derrick Williams led Bayern with 18 points, and Danilo Barthel finished with 11 in the losing effort.

The teams struggled offensively early, managing just 6 points between them in the opening 4 minutes. A corner triple from Johannes Voigtmann got the hosts going, and Janning’s step-back triple made it 10-6. A pair of dunks from Poirier, and another one from Darrun Hilliard, had Baskonia up 19-11, but the visitors scored 5 points in the first quarter’s final 25 seconds, including a triple from Barthel, and Baskonia held a 19-16 lead after 10 minutes. Bayern caught up in the second quarter, when Williams strung together a corner triple and an alley-oop dunk to tie it at 25-25. The teams kept trading blows, and Bayern took a 33-35 lead, but Hilliard had a three-point play and Voigtmann a buzzer-beating put-back to make it 38-37 at halftime. Back-to-back triples from Janning and Luca Vildoza extended it to 44-37, but Bayern held the hosts without a single point for more than 4 minutes. A fastbreak layup from Nihad Dedovic cut within a point, before a triple from Braydon Hobbs tied it at 46-46. Jalen Jones had a triple and a fastbreak dunk to restore Baskonia’s lead, before Shavon Shields scored 6 points, including a layup with time winding down, to make it 59-53 at the end of the third. Marcelinho Huertas opened the fourth quarter with a second-chance three-pointer, and a dunk from Jones opened 64-55. Williams fueled a 0-7 run in less than 2 minutes to get Bayern within a single possession, but in the next 2 minutes Janning and Voigtmann each hit a three-pointer, before Poirier’s dunk opened the first double-digit lead of the night, 72-62. Barthel’s fastbreak layup gave the visitors hope, cutting within 6 points in the penultimate minute, but the hosts forced a turnover with 35 seconds left, which sealed the victory. There was still a battle to win the tiebreaker, and a put-back from Poirier beat the buzzer to give the hosts a much-wanted 8-point win.

Key run

Bayern got within 64-62 with 5:40 to go, but remained scoreless for the next 3 and a half minutes, while Matt Janning and Johannes Vogitamann nailed back-to-back triples, before Darrun Hilliard grabbed an offensive board and fed Vincent Poirier for a dunk that opened a 72-62 lead with just over 2:30 to go.

Sweet buzzer-beaters

Baskonia scored buzzer-beating put-backs at the end of each half. Voigtmann fought for one to beat the halftime buzzer and give the hosts a 38-37 lead at the break, and Poirier was in the right place at the very end, just beating the buzzer to give Baskonia an 8-point win.

Key contributors

Baskonia had five scorers in double digits. Jalen Jones netted 12 points in just 15 minutes on the floor, Johannes Voigtmann had 10 points and 9 rebounds, while Shavon Shields also scored 10 in victory.

Did you catch?

Matt Janning came into this game 1 point shy of a 1,000-point milestone, and wasted no time reaching it with Baskonia’s first basket of the night.

Next game

EuroLeague goes on a week-long break, but when teams return to action in two weeks time for Round 23, both Bayern and Baskonia will pay a visit to great Spanish powerhouses. Bayern will travel to face third-place Real Madrid (17-5), while Baskonia will play against fifth-place FC Barcelona Lassa (13-9).

Vincent Poirier - KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz - EB18
Friday, February 8, 2019
Euroleague.net
Referees: RYZHYK, BORYS; LATISEVS, OLEGS; FOUFIS, IOANNIS
Attendance: 11854 (Tentative)
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KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
1 PENAVA, AJDIN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
3 VILDOZA, LUCA 26:12 6 1/3 1/5 1/2 2 2 4 4 3 3 1   2 4 10
5 GONZALEZ, MIGUEL DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
7 VOIGTMANN, JOHANNES 28:33 10 2/6 2/5   3 6 9 2 1 3 1   2   11
9 HUERTAS, MARCELINHO 21:44 5 1/1 1/1         5 1 3     1 2 9
11 JANNING, MATT 29:49 13 2/3 3/7     1 1     1 1   2   7
12 DIOP, ILIMANE 11:13 4 2/5     2 1 3 1   1     2   2
17 POIRIER, VINCENT 25:00 11 5/7   1/1 2 9 11 1     1   2 1 21
21 JONES, JALEN 14:52 12 3/5 1/3 3/4   2 2     2     2 2 7
31 SHIELDS, SHAVON 27:06 10 4/6 0/1 2/2   2 2 3         2 3 13
32 HILLIARD, DARRUN 15:31 5 2/3 0/2 1/1 1 1 2 1   1     3 2 3
47 KURUCS, ARTURS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Team             1 1               1
Totals 200:00 76 22/39 8/24 8/10 10 25 35 17 5 14 4 0 18 14 84
        56.4% 33.3% 80%
Head coach: PERASOVIC, VELIMIR
Min: Minutes played; Pts: Points; 2FG M-A: 2-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); 3FG M-A: 3-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); FT M-A: Free Throws (Made-Attempted); Rebounds: O (Offensive), D (Defensive), T (Total); As: Assists; St: Steals; To: Turnovers; Bl: Blocks (Fv: In Favor / Ag: Against); Fouls: Cm (Commited), Rv (Received); PIR: Performance Index Rating
FC Bayern Munich
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
1 DANGUBIC, NEMANJA 10:30 2     2/2   1 1   1       1 2 5
3 HOBBS, BRAYDON 15:26 3   1/4         3   1         2
7 KING, ALEX 1:39                              
8 KOPONEN, PETTERI 13:20 7 2/2 1/2   1 1 2 1   2       2 9
10 RADOSEVIC, LEON 19:47 6 2/3   2/2 2 3 5 1         3 1 9
11 LUCIC, VLADIMIR 29:17 8 3/3 0/5 2/2 2 5 7 1 1 1     1 1 11
12 LO, MAODO 20:23 5 0/5 0/1 5/7 1 5 6   2 2   1 3 4 3
14 DEDOVIC, NIHAD 26:54 8 3/6 0/2 2/2 1 2 3 3 2 1   2   3 11
15 AMAIZE, ROBIN 4:10     0/2         2         1   -1
22 BARTHEL, DANILO 25:22 11 4/6 1/4     3 3 2   1   1 2   7
23 WILLIAMS, DERRICK 28:50 18 5/6 1/5 5/7   2 2 2 1 1     2 5 18
26 OGUNSIPE, MARVIN 4:22           1 1 1   2     1   -1
Team           1 1 2     1         1
Totals 200:00 68 19/31 4/25 18/22 8 24 32 16 7 12 0 4 14 18 74
        61.3% 16% 81.8%
Head coach: RADONJIC, DEJAN

Head Coaches

PERASOVIC, VELIMIR
KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz

“I am happy, but every game will be an important game. Every game here is a game for life, because too many teams are in the fight for the playoffs. Today was an important win, but if we don’t keep winning we will have problems. We have tough rivals coming to our court, so if we want to go into the playoffs we have to win one of our three road games. We play against Madrid, Efes, Khimki, Zalgiris at home, so it is not easy to win every game at home and get a playoff classification.”

"We are very happy with the victory, and with the point-difference. We believe that might be very important at the end of the season."

RADONJIC, DEJAN
FC Bayern Munich
"To win here you have to play better offense, for sure. Defensively we made some mistakes, but it was not bad. But we had a problem with organization, and our three-point percentage was the worst this season. Congratulations to Baskonia on the victory. Before this season, our goal was to be competitive, and I think we are much better than that. We have eight games remaining, and I hope we will win some of them."

Players

POIRIER, VINCENT
KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz
“I was lucky (with the last basket). The ball bounced into my hand and I just had to put it through the rim. We needed this win, we did the work, and I am happy. I think we are doing the job on the court. I don’t know if it is our best basketball of the season, but we are trying to give everything we have to win some games at home. We do it well, so it is great.”
VOIGTMANN, JOHANNES
KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz
“We are pretty good at home and we got to use it to our advantage. This might be the most important match we had so far. We did a good job. We knew it was going to be really important, and we also won a head-to-head tiebreaker, so we are pretty happy right now.”
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