In Paris, Virtus Bologna fails to make a comeback
In Paris, Virtus Bologna fails to make a comeback
At the Adidas Arena, in the twelfth game of the Euroleague regular season, Virtus Segafredo Bologna suffers its fourth consecutive defeat, losing 81-78 despite a great comeback in the final against the hosts of Paris and remains in’last place along with’Alba Berlin.
The Black Vs get off to a hot start and after three minutes are up 13-2, but slowly the Parisians pull themselves together and after the first ten minutes the margin è only 3 points, 24-21. In the second quarter there’è the overtaking of the hosts who arrive at the long interval ahead 44-38.
In the third quarter the French lead expanded to +11 and they arrived at the last ten minutes on 69-61. In the’last quarter the unbelievable happens: Virtus from the maximum lead for the hosts of +14, 77-63 with 6’23” to the end, pulls back to within two points with a 12-0 run with 1’37” to the buzzer but TJ Shorts25 points from Will Clyburn, with a 1 on 2 from the lunette and a basket from two brings his own back to +5.
A triple by Marco Belinelli was useless; a last free throw by Nadir Hifl closed the game. For Luca Banchi’s team 25 points from Will Clyburn, for the transalpines Shorts finishes with 19 points.
