In an electric atmosphere, the Monegasques were in the lead for a long time on Wednesday, but gave up at the end of the match.
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Very high level matches are played in detail. AS Monaco Basket players experienced this on Wednesday May 4, during the decisive Euroleague playoff match lost to Olympiakos (88-94).
The players of the Rock, yet in the lead for a good part of the meeting, had to bow in the last minutes against the overexcited Greeks and carried by a public on fire. The excellent first campaign of the Roca Team in C1 therefore stops at the gates of the Final Four.
The Roca Team has almost signed an ideal score for a meeting at this level of European competition. In the lead after dominating the first two quarters, the party got tougher for the Monegasques. The Greeks woke up little by little before making their superiority speak, in a last act with a terrible 28-18 inflicted on the players of Sasa Obradovic.
⚔️ The #RocaTeam fails at the foot of Olympus A defeat in match 5 the@olympiacosbc but a fantastic first season of@EuroLeague which ends for our Roca Boys pic.twitter.com/7iCgr9CCJc
— AS Monaco Basket (@ASMonaco_Basket) May 4, 2022
If the talent of Mike James, who once again splashed the Athenian hall with 24 points and 10 assists, was not enough for Monaco, it has been more than twenty years since a French club had reached this stage of the competition. . A performance and a course that call for others for the Roca Team which has shown that it has taken the lead and could claim a place in the Final Four in the future. After being trailing two victories to one, she had managed to offer herself, after a hard-fought battle, a decisive match for qualification against a regular at major European events. In charge of revenge for the Monegasques.