Endesa League | An exhibition by Mirotic sentences Obradoiro

The Barça star broke the game with 15 points in the third quarter (27 and 40 efficiency), and Barça already lived on income until the end (94-77).

Abrines was the best offensive support with four triples (12), and the negative note, Vesely’s lumbar discomfort that led him to retire

Barça had enough with some explosive minutes from Nikola Mirotic in the third quarteror (15 points) to finalize the victory against Monbus Obradoiro (94-77) and bring Barça closer to the first position in the Endesa League that they will have to endorse on Sunday against Cazoo Baskonia.

A game that enlivened Mirotic, with his 27 points and a PIR of 40, along with the few three-pointers scored (10 of 33), four of them by Abrines (12), another of the highlights along with the young Nigerian Nnaji. The negative note, Vesely’s lumbar spasms that forced him to leave the game in the first half.

Jasikevicius put the starting team into play, with the idea that they should be filmed facing the Final Four, even if it was against an Obradoiro, clearly inferior from the start.

Good start for Obradoiro

Although this difference in quality in the two squads was not noticed in the first quarter. Jasikevicius’s team was not good at shooting outside while a great Blazevic (11) did damage in the inside game, leading the visitors to dominate in a surprising way after a triple by Álex Suárez (9-12).

Saras looked for the revulsive in Sanli, although Obradoiro continued to find spaces in the areaand Guerrero gave the maximum to the team of Moncho Fernández at the end of the first quarter (15-21). Without rhythm or success in the shot, the Galicians dominated the scoreboard to the surprise of the Palau, who expected a recital from Barcelona and it was not like that.

With the second unit Barça was not too bright either. Saras gave Nnaji the alternative before Sanli’s thick afternoon and a Vesely who went to the locker room. The club reported that he had suffered lumbar spasms so he was no longer going to return to the match.

Well, it was Nnaji with his spectacular actions in defense and with luxury blocks (4) who encouraged the showwhich together with the actions of Mirotic (12 points at halftime) together two triples from Abrines, who finally woke up from 6.70 (only 4 of 17 at halftime) allowed Barça to go ahead at halftime (35-32) in a rather gray first half of the blaugrana.

Show Mirotic

The third quarter had only one name: Nikola Mirotic. The Montenegrin put the team on his back in a few spectacular minutes, in which he combined goals in the zone from the triple or taking the rebound, to totally make the difference.

While Obradoiro tried to resist, the Barça star made a real break for them, with 15 points in the fourthand Barça reached its maximum shortly after the end (68-48) with a definitive partial in those 10 minutes (33-18)

With the game theoretically resolved, Saras returned to give minutes to the second unitwith a scare included with Jokubaitis, who received a strong blow to the nose, with abundant blood, although fortunately he returned to the game.

Obradoiro tried to re-engage with a 0-9 run (68-57) and even got close to 8 (80-72) but the forces of the visitors no longer gave up and Barça was able to close a comfortable victory that brings them a little closer to the leadership of the League (94-77).