The grandparents of European basketball went further in the cup tournaments, but there was also a surprise



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Real Madrid, who play at home in the quarterfinals of the Spanish Cup, beat another Euroleague team, Valencia, by 85:74.

“Kings” started out loud and immediately lunged forward. After the first half, they led 29:17, and after the second, 49:34.

In the third, the advantage of Pablo Lasas’s students reached 21 points (59:38), but the Valencian team recovered, ran 15: 0 and recovered the intrigue.

However, it quickly dissolved again when Real gained a 16-point lead in the fourth quarter and advanced to the semifinals.

Getty Images / Euroleague nuotr./Trey Thompkinsas

Getty Images / Euroleague nuotr./Trey Thompkinsas

The “king” of victory was led by the excellent tandem of Gabriel Decko and Trey Thompkins. They scored 23 and 21 points, respectively.

In the semifinals on Saturday, Real will face Iberostar de Tenerife, who defeated CB Miraflores de Burgos in the quarterfinals by 87:76.

The Milan Olympics achieved a landslide victory in the Italian Cup quarter-finals. Ettore Messina’s home team crushed Emilia Reggio’s Pallacanestro team 80:52.

Former Zachas LeDay from Žalgiris, who scored 15 points, bounced 7 balls and became the most productive player of the match alongside Kevin Punter, was a big winner.

Euroleague via Getty nuotr./Zachas LeDay

Euroleague via Getty nuotr./Zachas LeDay

Many expected Olympia to play Bologna’s Virtus in the semi-finals, but the dominant club in the European Cup suddenly fell 82:89 against Venice’s Umana Reyer.

The Bologna club, which chased most of the match, were double digits behind in the fourth quarter and failed to break the course of the match in the final minutes.

Virtus did not even save the successful performance of Miloš Teodosičius: the Serbian scored 15 points and made 6 successful passes.

“Scanpix” nuotr./Milošas Teodosičius

Tel Aviv’s Maccabi basketball players won the Israel Cup suspense semi-final. Since 2017, the “yellows” who were looking to recover the trophies they did not have in their hands eliminated the enormous deficit and defeated the “Hapoel” of Holón after an extension of 87:85.

Maccabi was still 50:67 behind in the fourth quarter, but ran 22: 5 and ripped off overtime. In it, the Tel Avivo team was already able to demonstrate its advantage.

In the final, Maccabi will fight with Richard Maccabi’s team, who a little earlier eliminated Hapoel from Jerusalem trained by Dainius Adomaitis.

The final four of the Lithuanian King Mindaugas Cup tournament will take place over the weekend.



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