The Partizan basketball team's streak of six defeats in the Euroleague is over - if the fans could choose when it would end, they would probably choose exactly this scenario.
Željko Obradović's team outplayed their biggest rival Crvena zvezda, which was the host in the Belgrade Arena, and reached their third triumph in the Euroleague this season - 89:77.
Zvezda did not wonder much in the first "eternal derby" of the season, Partizan took control from the middle of the first quarter, and at the beginning of the third, for the first time, they reached a double-digit difference, which amounted to plus 14.
The home team had a reaction at the end of that period, when it came to 63:55, but the "black and white" responded with a 4:0 mini-series, with which they again "escaped" to a safe margin.
Karlik Jones was the best in Partizan with 21 points, six rebounds and four assists, Ife Lundberg scored 13, as much as Aizea Mike, probably Obradović's biggest surprise in this derby...
In Zvezda, Filip Petrushev was the best with 20 points and eight caught balls, but he could not make his team avoid the sixth failure in the elite.
And Paris is in a big surge - it celebrated for the seventh time in a row, now on the road against Anadolu Efes (93:84).
As usual, TJ Shorts was the best of the debutants (21 points and 10 assists), so Paris has eight wins after 11 rounds.
Monaco reacted after the departure of coach Saša Obradović and beat Asvel (103:92), Olympiakos was safe against Baskonia (92:69), while Olympia Milano beat Maccabi on their home field - 98:86 with 22 points from Zeko Ledej and 20 from Nikola Mirotic.
Real justified their role against Alba in Madrid - 98:84.
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