“Films” a match in Euroleague when one team – especially the home team – has a lead of 27 points? And yet, it turns. Sta 3:27 before the end of the third quarter, Nikola Mirotic with a two-point shot wrote the 64-37 in favor of her Armani Milan in the match of the fourth season against Zalgiris.
It is a difference that… 99 out of 100 times essentially decides the winner of a match, only that the Lithuanians of Andrea Trinchieri found the mental reserves (and of course… beat the Italians), as a result of which they managed a legendary comeback in the 13.5 minutes of the game that were left.
Out of this world 🤯 #EveryGameMatters pic.twitter.com/p9WgRtCKVG
— Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) October 17, 2024
The quarter ended at -18 for Zalgiris (66-48) to follow… show. In the fourth period, the visitors scored 37 ( !) points against Armani’s 16 resulting in a great double with 85-82!
“We were down by 27 points but we came back with a great last quarter. As much energy as we lacked, we showed it, made the shots, collected all the rebounds and stopped critical attacks. We return to Kaunas after two demanding away matches, we leave with two victories. Of course, it could have been… worse”said happily Andrea Trinchieri after his team’s great upset.
WHAT a comeback victory from @bczalgiris tonight 😨#EveryGameMatters pic.twitter.com/SB1tdvLATF
— Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) October 17, 2024
“I think we have to be honest and apologize for this tragic performance in the last 15 minutes of the match,” said the losing coach, Etore Messina.
Euroleague: Watch the highlights of Milan – Zalgiris
Zalgiris comes… second on the list
The Lithuanians… drove basketball Europe crazy (which also wonders what kind of… evil found Armani and lost such a match through her hands) but they come second in terms of the list of the biggest comebacks in the history of the competition.
Having data from the last 17 years, when the Euroleague also introduced the play-by-play measurement in 2007, the record is held by the Polish Procom Gdyniawhich the season 2012-13 managed to overturn a difference of 28 points, with a victim… again an Italian team, the Montepaski Siena, taking a great win over Italy 95-88.
Her saga from last night follows Zalgiristhe 26-point upset achieved by the Bamberg against Barcelona in the 2017-18 season, her 25-point comeback Armani on her Darusafaka in the 2016-17 season, with Partizan closing the top five, which in 2008 had come back from -23 against… in Milan.
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