Basketball: Euroleague, Red Star – AX Milan 57-63

(ANSA) – MILAN, 01 FEB – The streak of successes of the AX Milano continues, which also breaks the Pioneer of Belgrade (63-57)., Temple of European basketball. Against the Red Star the Messina team suffers the impact with a packed arena in every order of place – about 7 thousand spectators, without goggles, without distance – and then clings to the ballistics of Delaney (18), Bentil (12) and Ricci (10) to hit the fifth consecutive victory. A game where the attacks have cold hands as ice: after 10 ‘the partial result marks the negative record in the history of the Euroleague (just 15 points, 8-7 for the Red Star), with Milan missing the first 12 shots and 16 of the first 19. The turning point marks Delaney who, despite a blow to the back of the head that sends him to the locker room for a few minutes, loads the team on his shoulders, scoring 16 of Olimpia’s first 42 points for +9 (42 -33). A partial that the Red Star is no longer able to recover, despite the edgy game – Kalinic expelled – and the excesses of the public, from where various types of objects rain down. “We knew it would be a hot environment – comments Delaney -, we played even harder”. Messina praises the American playmaker: “He was super on a difficult field”.

Milan remains third and on Thursday will return to the field, this time at the Forum, against Fenerbahce. (HANDLE).

Source: Ansa

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