Partizan\u2019s basketball team lost to Asvel in the 11th round of the EuroLeague with a score of 88:87, finishing this double round with a split result of one win and one loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Correct us if we\u2019re wrong, but Partizan has not played a single \u201cnormal\u201d game in the EuroLeague this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Opponents have crushed their seemingly unreachable double-digit leads, had unreal runs like Monaco\u2019s 22\u20130, scored baskets from unbelievable positions, and Partizan fans have literally not watched a single game without a blood-pressure monitor and massive mood swings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The same case happened tonight in Villeurbanne. Partizan opened the game against Asvel with a series of turnovers, forcing \u017deljko Obradovi\u0107 to burn two timeouts in the first two minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pieric Poupet\u2019s team managed several times to reach a double-digit lead, and Partizan just as many times erased that advantage and came to a tie, only to stumble again and allow Asvel to resurrect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u017deljko Obradovi\u0107\u2019s players made incomprehensible mistakes throughout the entire match: 17 turnovers, cheap miscommunications on defense, bad fouls (for example, they didn\u2019t commit a single small foul until the end of the first quarter, and then later repeatedly fouled shooters while not in the bonus), and inexplicable lapses in concentration, missing opportunities to shift the momentum to their side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most critical sequence came in the last two minutes of the game, when Partizan fell into a vortex of awful defensive reactions, offensive fouls, ill-advised shots, failure to score, and a climax in the form of a turnover on an inbound pass with 23 seconds left. Asvel, of course, used that, and with Gleen Watson leading the way, secured only their third win of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of all Partizan\u2019s EuroLeague games this season, tonight\u2019s against Asvel was probably the \u201ccraziest\u201d and \u201cwildest,\u201d full of huge swings \u2014 both because of Partizan\u2019s mistakes and inconsistency, and because of Asvel\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After 11 incredibly dramatic games, the EuroLeague could seriously consider playing, before every Partizan game, the same fast-spoken warning heard in commercials for medications and pharmaceutical products: \u201cBefore watching KK Partizan games, consult your doctor or pharmacist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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