Name: Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv-AS Monaco | Round 6 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv-AS Monaco | Round 6 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague

Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv v AS Monaco (2025-10-23T18:05:00.000Z)

38-year-old Nando De Colo was instrumental throughout LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne’s 85-79 victory over Dubai Basketball on Thursday evening, producing moments of magic on the floor and stepping up big time when the hosts needed him the most.

Nando De Colo turns back the clock to inspire ASVEL comeback

They say that age is just a number and [Nando De Colo](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/nando-de-colo/002100/) proved that with his extraordinary outing against [Dubai Basketball](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/teams/dubai-basketball/dub/) on Thursday evening. The 38-year-old was instrumental throughout [LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/teams/ldlc-asvel-villeurbanne/asv/)’s 85-79 victory, producing moments of magic on the floor and stepping up big time when the hosts needed him the most.

Eager to help his team end a three-game losing slide, the two-time EuroLeague champion hit the ground running on Thursday evening. He opened the scoring with a triple before pulling off two sublime dishes to set up [Zac Seljaas](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/zachary-seljaas/014088/) and [Glynn Watson](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/glynn-watson/014013/), who drilled one triple each for a 9-5 lead.

De Colo finished the first quarter on 8 points, 3 assists and a rebound, with ASVEL trailing 21-24 after 10 minutes. An entertaining back-and-forth affair saw the two sides trade blows in the second, ending the first half tied at 44-44.

Dubai kicked off the third quarter with a 2-10 run, as [Dwayne Bacon](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/dwayne-bacon/011286/) took over with 11 points to secure a 59-68 cushion heading into the closing quarter. Yet, an inspired Watson added 8 points to his tally to bring ASVEL within 76-77 with 2 minutes remaining.

And then he took charge.

LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne-Dubai Basketball | Round 6 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague

The home crowd sighed as [Armel Traore](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/armel-traore/010319/) missed a couple of free throws to put ASVEL ahead, but [Mbaye Ndiaye](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/mbaye-ndiaye/012731/) picked up the offensive rebound and passed the ball to De Colo without thinking twice. Despite having 11 seconds left for the possession, ASVEL’s veteran guard pulled up from downtown and nailed his third triple of the night for a 79-77 lead with 01:44 remaining.

“Nando is Nando,” Ndiaye told EuroLeague TV after the game. “Nando is a great player. It’s a pleasure to play with him. He’s a man for the team.”

ASVEL’s defense strangled the visitors in the fourth quarter by bagging 4 steals and forcing Dubai into 8 turnovers. Bacon trimmed the deficit to 80-79 with 00:37 to go, but De Colo came to the fore again.

The intelligent Frenchman pulled up from way deep, forcing [Davis Bertans](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/davis-bertans/003458/) to foul him in the act of shooting. Ice in his veins, De Colo made 3 of 3 from the line to practically put the game to bed.

“What to say about Nando,” Dubai head coach Jurica Golemac said in the post-game press conference. “Nando is a legend of European basketball. It’s very hard to stop him, even at this age. He’s very experienced, very smart. He knows how to play against any kind of defense. We were not able to stop him today.”

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Having tightened up its defense, ASVEL kept Dubai to just 11 points in the fourth quarter to complete a hard-fought comeback.

De Colo ended the game on 24 points - 9 of which were scored in the closing quarter - which he paired with 5 assists. He also registered 2 steals to tie another EuroLeague legend, [Rudy Fernandez](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/fernandez-rudy/bmt/), for fourth place all-time with 367 in total.

“We tried to put more intensity on the court \[in the fourth quarter\],” De Colo told EuroLeague TV. “Tried to respect what we want, especially defensively as a team. We know that when we let \[Dubai\] play, they’ve got lots of talent. We started putting more effort and we just kept going.”

Famous Spanish painter Pablo Picasso once said, “Youth has no age”. And EuroLeague artist De Colo keeps painting that message vividly on the court week in, week out.

Game News

The French side’s defense strangled Dubai in the fourth quarter

LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne v Dubai Basketball (2025-10-23T17:30:00.000Z)

Maodo Lo and Deividas Syrvidis stepped up and made the difference at Palau Blaugrana 


New go-to guys help Zalgiris bounce back 

There was plenty of good news for Zalgiris Kaunas in Round 6. First and foremost, the Lithuanian giants registered a 73-88 road win over FC Barcelona to snap a two-game losing streak. [Tomas Masiulis](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/teams/zalgiris-kaunas/zal/masiulis-tomas) was able to celebrate his first victory as head coach at Palau Blaugrana, after registering many victories with Barca as [Sarunas Jasikevicius](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/teams/fenerbahce-beko-istanbul/ulk/jasikevicius-saras)'s assistant from 2020 to 2023. Even better, Zalgiris saw some new players step up to lead the team to this win, making the team even more unpredictable on offense.

"We lost the last two games and had a little bit of a rough stretch, so it was good to get this win today. It was really, really good for us," Maciulis said. "It is early in the season and we had two good wins to start the season. Those were really, really good for us, but to come here and beat Barca is always tough."

In the opening five games, [Sylvain Francisco](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/players/sylvain-francisco/007975/) (13.4 ppg., 15.8 PIR), [Moses Wright](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/players/moses-wright/012878/) (13.4 ppg., 15.8 PIR), [Arnas Butkevicius](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/players/arnas-butkevicius/002676/) (9.0 ppg., 12.6 PIR) and [Nigel Williams-Goss](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/players/nigel-williams-goss/007982/) (13.0 ppg., 11.6 PIR) were Zalgiris's main pillars. All of them underperformed on this night. 

Williams-Goss scored the first two baskets of the game before leaving with an injury after less than 2 minutes. Butkevicius made 11 of 15 three-pointers (73.3% 3FG) before this game. He shot 0 of 2 from downtown in Barcelona for 2 points and a PIR of 8. Wright had 10 points and a PIR of 14 and even though Francisco scored 14, he buried a couple of threes once the outcome was clear after going 0 of 5 from beyond the arc earlier. 

What happened, then? Zalgiris proved it is a deep team in which everyone can step up. With Williams-Goss out of the picture and Francisco struggling to find his rhythm, [Maodo Lo](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/players/maodo-lo/007032/) and [Deividas Sirvydis](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/players/deividas-sirvydis/007029/) rose to the fore to make sure Zalgiris returned to winning ways. Lo was simply unstoppable, using his ballhandling to get good shots off the dribble. After being held scoreless in Round 5 against Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade, Lo finished the game with a season-high 20 points on 5 of 5 three-point shooting.

Sirvydis also saw extended playing time and made the most out of it. Sirvydis averaged 1.8 points on 20.0% shooting and a PIR of 0.6 in the first five games. He played over 21 minutes against Barca, scored 14 points and posted a PIR of 9. By excelling when their team needed them, Sirvydis and Lo gave Zalgiris fans plenty of confidence going forwards.

"I know how difficult it is to play here, so we are very happy. I think it was a team victory. We played solid defense for almost 40 minutes, so I am happy," Lo said after the game. "We played with physicality, so for me this is most important. We scored some tough shots, one-on-one shots but all started from the defense."

Maodo Lo led Zalgiris Kaunas to a 73-88 road victory over FC Barcelona. 

Maodo Lo has season-high 20 points in Round 6 

There is more, of course, and Lo pointed it out. Zalgiris had a near-perfect defensive effort, with extraordinary use of non-shooting fouls throughout the games. With [Nico Laprovittola](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/players/nicolas-laprovittola/006435/), [Juan Nunez](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/players/juan-nunez/010106/) and [Dario Brizuela](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/players/dario-brizuela/009992/) out, Zalgiris focused on stopping [Tomas Satoransky](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/players/tomas-satoransky/002939/) and [Kevin Punter](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/players/kevin-punter/009862/) and excelled at it. Satoransky reached the end of the third quarter with 0 assists and 5 turnovers. Punter missed a free throw after making 51 consecutive attempts, and was limited to just 7 points on 3 of 9 shooting.

Despite finishing the game with 16 assists and 8 offensive rebounds, Zalgiris always found good one-on-one opportunities, finishing the game with excellent shooting percentages (61.1% 2FG, 40.7% 3FG) while Barca struggled from all angles against the guests' suffocating defense (43.9% 2FG, 31.8% 3FG).

<center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Maodo Lo in Barcelona: perfect game mode unlocked. 🔓<br><br>📊: 20 PTS | 5/5 3FG | 3 REB | 5 AST | 21 EFF <a href="https://t.co/OedXMYFvYX">pic.twitter.com/OedXMYFvYX</a></p>&mdash; BC Zalgiris Kaunas (@bczalgiris) <a href="https://twitter.com/bczalgiris/status/1981461425706168598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center>

"It is frustrating because Zalgiris played better than us. We didn't play a solid game and were not consistent on defense, especially in one-on-one situations, where they found a lot of easy situations," Barca head coach Joan Penarroya said. "After our turnovers, they ran and scored in easy fast-break situations. We didn't play solid defense and after that, we didn't play with good rhythm on offense, so no excuses."

The EuroLeague marathon continues for both teams in the coming two-round week. Zalgiris plays twice at home, facing Virtus Bologna on Tuesday and LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne on Thursday. Barca hosts EA7 Emporio Armani Milan on Tuesday before visiting Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade on Friday.

New go-to guys help Zalgiris bounce back in Barcelona

FC Barcelona v Zalgiris Kaunas (2025-10-23T18:30:00.000Z)

Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv continued to look like a seasoned title contender by holding off last season’s finalist AS Monaco with an 85-77 victory on Thursday night, keeping the Israeli team at the top of the standings with a 5-1 record.

Micic and Motley’s crew downed Monaco

EuroLeague debutant? [Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/teams/hapoel-ibi-tel-aviv/games/hta/) continued to look like a seasoned title contender by holding off last season’s finalist [AS Monaco](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/teams/as-monaco/games/mco/) with an 85-77 victory on Thursday night, keeping the Israeli team at the top of the standings with a 5-1 record.

And although it was a strong team effort, as five different players scored in double digits, Hapoel leaned most heavily on two players who respectively dominated the backcourt in the first quarter and the paint in the fourth: [Vasilije Micic](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/vasilije-micic/002580/) and [Johnathan Motley](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/johnathan-motley/011157/).

Hapoel headed into the game boasting the highest-scoring offense in the EuroLeague, averaging 93.8 points across the first five games. Maintaining those standards against Monaco’s stingy defense – statistically the third-best in the league at the start of the week – didn’t look easy, but Coach Dimitris Itoudis’s team started off with another impressive demonstration of its scoring power.

Inevitably, former EuroLeague MVP Micic was at the heart of everything, dishing a pair of assists inside the opening minute and then netting 7 points himself before the first quarter’s midway point. [Dan Oturu](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/dan-oturu/012788/) also impressed by scoring 7 points in those early exchanges, while [Collin Malcolm](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/collin-malcolm/012609/) demonstrated another facet of Hapoel’s offense by draining a trio of triples for a 27-18 advantage at the end of the first quarter.

But then Monaco stiffened its resolve, allowing just 35 points in the next two quarters to gradually take control of the game. The visiting team edged ahead towards the end of the third as [Daniel Theis](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/daniel-theis/004132/), [Elie Okobo](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/elie-okobo/011212/) and the irrepressible [Mike James](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/mike-james/005985/) provided scoring punch, and the early stages of the fourth quarter saw seven lead changes as the two teams traded blows.

Then Motley took over, scoring 11 points in just over 5 minutes and sending his team into an 80-75 lead. The big man then had an impact at the other end, coming out to the perimeter to block a shot from James. That allowed [Elijah Bryant](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/euroleague/players/elijah-bryant/009846/) to convert a pair of free throws, followed by Micic rattling home his fourth triple of the night to secure the victory.

Motley finished with 17 points on 8-of-9 two-point shooting, with five of his scores coming from coolly converted mid-range shots as the Monaco defense concentrated on preventing him from attacking the rim.

“I knew they were playing drop a little bit,” he explained to [EuroLeague.TV](http://EuroLeague.TV) after the game. “So I wanted to shoot some jumpers and take advantage of the space they were giving me.”

That scoring explosion from Motley coincided with excellent defense at the other end of the floor, with Monaco held to just 14 fourth-quarter points. And aside from netting 29 points in a third quarter that it dominated, the Roca Team was very well contained throughout the other 30 minutes by Hapoel – a point not lost upon Micic as he reflected on the win.

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“We played really clever in those last 5 minutes in terms of defense – we knew exactly how to defend their main weapons,” said the Serbian star. “As we all know, Mike \[James\] is very tough and Mirotic very experienced. So we were ready, and then offensively we made the shots.”

Motley echoed those sentiments, adding that Hapoel was particularly motivated to tighten up defensively after allowing an average of 94.7 points over its last three games.

“We weren’t happy with our defense,” admitted the center. “So we went to the film room, figured out some things we could do better, and tonight we did a really good job.”

That combination of effective offense and improved defense added up to Hapoel’s fifth win of a remarkable start to the season, but Coach Itoudis warned his players that there’s still a lot of work to do.

“We didn’t lose our faith. Even when they took over, we were composed,” he said. “I’m happy that we’re in the process of becoming a real team. That will not make us relaxed – on the contrary, we’ve got to build on it.”

With Micic and Motley as the foundation stones, there’s certainly a lot to build upon.

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