2013-14TournamentRound 3
Santiago Yusta - IJT Real Madrid - Final Four Milan 2014Real Madrid professionals and youngsters will be playing for a special double on Sunday. One night after Real beat FC Barcelona to reach the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four Championship Game, Madrid’s youth team knocked off Zalgiris Kaunas 77-60 to reach the final of the Euroleague Basketball Nike International Junior Tournament - Milan. The only club to have won both the Euroleague and NIJT titles at the same Final Four was CSKA Moscow in 2006. Andrej Magdevski paced Madrid with 19 points as the Spanish powerhouse moved to a perfect 3-0 in Group B play and will take on Crvena Zvezda in the title game, which will produce a first time winner. Santiago Yusta added 18 points, Jonathan Kasibabu had 10 points, 11 rebounds and two blocks, Emanuel Cate collected 10 points and 10 rebounds while Guillermo Mulero chipped in 10 points for Madrid, which making only its second appearance at the NIJT tournament. The two-time winner Zalgiris dropped to 1-2 in the group despite 12 points from Martynas Varnas while Martynas Echodas was held to four points and four rebounds though he did have five blocks. Zalgiris opened the game with the first two points but watched Real score the next five points and then open a 10-4 lead. The margin was 12-8 when Yusta and Magdevski combined for all 12 points in a 12-0 run for a 24-8 advantage. Madrid increased the cushion to 28-10 and led 28-12 after one quarter. Zalgiris stuck with Real in the second quarter, getting the lead down to 11 points on a couple of occasions before back-to-back baskets from Kasibabu made it 39-24. Kristupas Zemaitis and Raimundas Zuklevicius responded with long balls to get the gap down to 41-30 only to see the deficit 45-30 at the break. Madrid hit the first basket of the second half to increase the margin to 17 points but Zalgiris would not go away. Ignas Fiodorovas and Zuklevicius both nailed three-balls, the latter to trim the gap to 59-50 after three quarters. Neither team scored in the first three minutes of the fourth and Zalgiris worked hard to keep Madrid from breaking away, trailing 65-55 with four minutes left. But Madrid scored the next six points to end all hopes for Zalgiris.
Saturday, May 17, 2014
David Hein, Euroleague.net
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Referees: REITER, MORITZ; PASTUSIAK, PIOTR; MAJKIC, MARIO
Attendance: 500 (Tentative)
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IJT ZALGIRIS KAUNAS12305060
IJT REAL MADRID
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
4 YUSTA, SANTI 27:17 18 3/8 2/5 6/8 2 2 4   1 1 1 1   4 16
6 RICO, ANDRES 19:48 2 1/4 0/2     3 3   2 1   1 5 3 -2
8 DE LA RUA, DANIEL 19:57 2 0/2 0/2 2/2 1 2 3 1 2 1     1 8 10
9 MAGDEVSKI, ANDREJ 27:12 17 5/10 2/5 1/2 1   1 1 3 4   1 1 2 9
10 BARREIRO, JONATHAN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
11 DIEZ DE LA FAYA, IGNACIO 2:08           1 1               1
12 NDIAYE, SAMBA 11:51   0/2     1 4 5     1 1   2   1
13 KASIBABU, JONATHAN 31:07 12 6/13 0/1   5 6 11   1 2 2 2 2 1 13
14 BLANCO, RAFAEL DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
15 MULERO, GUILLERMO 23:38 10 4/6 0/1 2/4 2   2   3     1 1 2 10
16 NIANG, WALY 18:36 6 3/5     3 4 7     1 1   1   10
18 CATE, EMANUEL 18:26 10 4/9   2/3 4 6 10 2 1 3 1 1 1 3 16
Team           1   1     1          
Totals 200:00 77 26/59 4/16 13/19 20 28 48 4 13 15 6 7 14 23 84
        44.1% 25% 68.4%
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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
IJT ZALGIRIS KAUNAS
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
5 ZUKLEVICIUS, RAIMUNDAS 28:02 6 0/2 2/6   2 1 3 1 1 6     2 2 -1
6 RAGAUSKAS, MATAS 6:32 2 1/1 0/1         1 1       2   1
8 ZEMAITIS, KRISTUPAS 28:39 9 0/5 3/6     4 4 2 1 2   1 2 3 6
9 FIODOROVAS, IGNAS 14:19 7 2/3 1/1     2 2 2   2   1 2   5
10 VAZALIS, JUSTAS 9:23 3 0/1 1/2     1 1     1     1    
11 SAJUS, MARTYNAS 25:11 7 2/7   3/4 2 5 7     4 1 2 2 3 4
12 KLIMAVICIUS, JUSTAS 4:58 2 1/2       2 2         1 2    
13 VARNAS, MARTYNAS 28:07 12 4/7 1/4 1/1   1 1 3 1 1     4 2 8
14 ECHODAS, MARTYNAS 33:10 4 2/7     1 3 4 1   2 5   3 3 7
15 MITALAUSKAS, VALENTINAS 15:49 8 4/6 0/1     1 1         1   1 6
16 BALABAN, MIKITA 3:54                              
21 MAZIONIS, ROKAS 1:56   0/1                     2   -3
Team           4 5 9     1         8
Totals 200:00 60 16/42 8/21 4/5 9 25 34 10 4 19 6 6 22 14 41
        38.1% 38.1% 80%
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