Virtus Bologna collapses with Monaco, Dusko Ivanovic berates team
Virtus Bologna collapses with Monaco, Dusko Ivanovic berates team
At the Segafredo Arena Virtus Bologna even got to the 21-point lead but in the end was beaten 86-80 by Monaco, which returned to winning ways after three consecutive losses, in the game of the 23rd day of the Euroleague.
It is the Monegasques who start better with an early 8-3 lead, then there’s a 7-0 counter-partial by the Black Vs, who from 13-13 stretch to +8 at the end of the quarter, 26-18, with a final 3-0 partial that even stretches to 16-0, with the maximum lead of +21 (39-18) in the second quarter, which ends for’s 49-41 for Dusko Ivanovic’s team.
After a balanced third quarter, which ends 62-56 for Virtus, in the last ten minutes there’è the turnaround: from 66-58 partials of 8-0 and then 18-10 for the Monegasques to +8 with 39 seconds left, for the Vere Nere there’è no more time to come back. For them 15 points by Tornike Shengelia, for the guests 24 by Mike James.
These are the words of Ivanovic: “Basketball games last 40 minutes, we did very good things for twenty minutes but in the second half we took a step back. They started playing strong, we didn’t play as we should against such a strong team built, as I said yesterday to get to the Final Four”.
