After a raucous first week of the playoffs, FC Barcelona and Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade are up 2-0 in their series, the latter despite playing on the road. The other two series, AS Monaco vs. Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv and Olympiacos Piraues vs. Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul, are even at 1-1-
Game 2: Barca, Partizan up 2-0; Monaco, Fenerbahce even series at 1-1
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Barcelona 89-81 Zalgiris | FINAL
FC Barcelona took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five playoffs by outlasting Zalgiris Kaunas 89-81 in Game 2 on Friday. No team has ever lost a series with a 2-0 lead. It was close throughout, and in the fourth quarter Barca followed Nikola Mirotic and Jan Vesely to its joint high lead of 72-66 before Rolands Smits drilled a pair of triples at 74-73 with 6 minutes left. Despite Mirotic's best efforts, Zalgiris stayed on Barca's heels until the visitors' former player, Rokas Jokubaitis, buried a shot from deep to make it 85-78 with under 3 minutes left. Jan Vesely led Barca with 26 points, his career playoff high, while Nikola Mirotic had 22. Ignas Brazdeikis scored 20 for Zalgiris. Game 3 is next Wednesday in Kaunas.
Olympaicos 78-82 Fenerbahce | FINAL
Fenerbahce rallied from a 16-point first-half deficit to steal Game 2 by 78-82 on the court of Olympiacos and even their series at 1-1. Fenerbahce flipped what had been a 56-51 Olympiacos lead into a 58-63 advantage while scoring the first 9 points of the fourth quarter as Marko Guduric and Nigel Hayes-Davis hit triples. Sasha Vezenkov and Shaquielle McKissic shared 9 points as the Reds retook a 67-63 lead After Hayes-Davis and Kostas Sloukas traded 6 points each, Johnathan Motley gave the visitors a couple of leads, the last at 76-77. In the last 90 seconds, McKissic missed 2 free throws while Guduric hit 1 and Tyler Dorsey got a late breakaway layup to complete the upset. Carsen Edwards led the winners with 16 points while Nigel Hayes-Davis and Johnathan Motley had 15 each. Olympiacos got 18 each from Sasha Vezenkov and Kostas Sloukas. Game 3 is next Wednesday in Istanbul
AS Monaco avenged a Game 1 home loss by running away from Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv for an 86-74 victory on Thursday that evens their best-of-five series at 1-1. Monaco took a minimal 42-41 halftime lead and lengthened it to double digits with a 10-1 run out of the lockers then lifted it high as 76-58. Maccabi got it back down to single digits before star of the game Jordan Loyd hit a triple with under 2 minutes left to seal it. Loyd scored a career-high 33 points for the winners, while surprise starter Yakuba Outtara had 12. They shared 7 of Monaco's 11 triples after a team total of just 4 in Game 1. Maccabi got 17 points from Wade Baldwin and 16 from Lorenzo Brown. Game 3 is next Tuesday in Tel Aviv.
With Partizan nursing a comfortable lead in the closing minutes, an altercation between Sergio Llull of Real Madrid and Kevin Punter of Partizan spilled over with most players from both teams involved. After the situation calmed, the referees reviewed the footage and called the game. After disqualification rules were applied, neither team had the requisite minimum of two players each required to finish the game, therefore the game is considered officially ended with the score at the time it was stopped 80-95, in favor of Partizan, which therefore now leads the series 2-0. Dante Exum was Partizan's top scorer with 19 points and James Nunnally netted 16. Rudy Fernandez and Mario Henzonja scored 16 apiece for Real.