February 10, 2012
Top 16 Week 4 in review
Ricky Rubio and Juan Carlos Navarro celebrates - Regal FC BarcelonaPartizan edged Maroussi BC 79-76 in front of a sold out Pionir Arena to take a share of the Group E lead along with FC Barcelona. Bo McCalebb paced the winners with 20 points and Lawrence Roberts added 14 and 9 rebounds. Maroussi led for the best part of the game, but it all came down to the final minute, when free throws by Billy Keys got Maroussi within 75-74. Aleksandar Rasic and Roberts combined for 4 free throws in the final 13.8 seconds and Keys missed a critical shot from downtown in the end. Michalis Pelekanos led Maroussi with 19 points on 5-of-7 three-point shooting.

Regal FC Barcelona kept Panathinaikos winless in the Top 16 by rallying late for a 67-70 victory. The win knocked the Greens out of contention for the playoffs and marked the second straight time that Panathinaikos failed to advance to the playoffs as the defending champion. It missed the quarterfinals two years ago when it was defending its 2007 title. Panathinaikos looked poised for its first Top 16 victory when a dunk by Drew Nicholas gave the Greens a 61-50 lead with less than six minutes left to play. Former Panathinaikos star Jaka Lakovic then sparked the visitors with back-to-back triples, and that was all Barcelona needed to forge a 3-18 takeover run that assured the victory. Juan Carlos Navarro finished with 15 points for the winners, who outscored Panathinaikos 12-26 in the fourth quarter.

Mario Kasun celebrates - Efes PilsenA memorable performance from Sergio Llull helped Real Madrid rally from a 9-point, third-quarter deficit to beat Montepaschi Siena 77-69. Llull scored all of his 17 points in the final 11 minutes, including a clutch three-pointer in the final seconds that also gave Madrid a head-to-head advantage over Montepaschi in the event of a tiebreaker. The win lifted Madrid to 2-2 in Group F, dropped Montepaschi to the same record and locked the two teams into a four-way tie for first place in the group along with Maccabi Electra and Efes Pilsen. Ante Tomic came off the bench to add 12 points and 9 rebounds in his best showing yet for Madrid. Meanwhile Montepaschi’s Ksistof won the battle of Lavrinovic twins, outscoring his brother Darjus Lavrinovic of Madrid 11-7.

Efes Pilsen held on for a 63-56 victory over Maccabi Electra behind Mario Kasun, who scored 14 points, grabbed 13 rebounds and served as a general force in the paint. It wasn’t all bad news for the Israeli champs, who made their 10-point win in Tel Aviv stand up and now own the potential head-to-head tiebreaker against the Turkish champs. Igor Rakocevic scored 6 points and passed David Andersen to move into 10th place on the list of the top career Euroleague scorers. He now has 1,899 career points from 124 games.

David Logan - Asseco ProkomAsseco Prokom outgunned CSKA Moscow 88-81 in Gdynia, Poland, to end the latter's 10-game winning streak, which was the longest active streak in the Euroleague. Prokom's victory, its first ever against CSKA, meant that both teams are tied with 3-1 records atop Group G, although CSKA is first for having won their previous game by more points, 11. Prokom erased CSKA's 6-point lead entering the final quarter with a 16-3 run over six minutes that the visitors could not come back from down the stretch. David Logan led that charge and finished with 22 points for the winners, Qyntel Woods added 19 points and 4 assists and Jan Jagla posted 18 points, 7 rebounds and 3 steals.

Zalgiris stayed alive in the fight to reach the Quarterfinal Playoffs from Group G for by edging Unicaja 89-84. Marty Pocius and Dainius Salenga paced the winners with 17 points apiece. Robert Archibald helped Unicaja to tie the game for the last time at 84-84, but the visitors were held scoreless in the final minute while free throws by Tadas Klimavicius and Aleksandar Capin helped Zalgiris seal its first Top 16 win this season.

Mirza Teletovic - Caja LaboralOlympiacos stretched its winning streak to nine games and moved within one win of clinching first place in Group H by edging Cibona 94-97. The Reds would have celebrated a Quarterfinal Playoffs berth if BC Khimki has beaten Caja Laboral on Thursday, but that will have to wait. The Reds will advance with a win in either ot their remaining games or if either Khimki or Laboral lose in their remaining games. Cibona dropped to 0-4, but retains a mathematical chance of reaching the playoffs. The game was an absolute thriller that came down to the very end. Milos Teodosic paced the winners with 22 points and 6 assists, including 3 free throws in the final 7.7 seconds to win it. Linas Kleiza added 20 points. Jamont Gordon was fantastic for Cibona with 32 points.

Caja Laboral remained alive in the battle to reach the Quarterfinal Playoffs with an impressive 83-94 victory at BC Khimki Moscow Region. Despite playing without injured All-Euroleague center Tiago Splitter and having power forward Mirza Teletovic spend eight hours in a Moscow airport on Tuesday before authorities allowed him to enter the country, Laboral rallied by making 12 of 20 three-pointers (60%), led by Teletovic’s 5 of 7 from downtown. The visitors also committed just 7 turnovers, less than half of Khimki’s 15. The final margin was identical to Khimki’s 11-point win in Spain two weeks ago, meaning that the second playoff spot from the group cannot be clinched until the final game of the Top 16. Teletovic paced the winners with 25 points.
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