Euroleague LIVE: Unicaja Malaga - Lietuvos Rytas

November 28, 2007

You can find the LIVE blog from the Euroleague game between Malaga and Lietuvos Rytas here starting at 20h30 CET.

8:43

Finally

8:44	My Pc is doing some strange things

8:44	But it looks like I am online now, and I hope this will work outthrough the evening

8:44	Becuase this looks like being worse than Euroleague TV

8:45	So we are here at the Arena in Malaga for the top game of the Group B between Unicaja and Lietuvos Rytas

8:45	Due to some injuries we see a very interesting guy n the roster of Malaga in the person of Paulao Prestes

8:46	45 seconds before the game will start now

8:46	Comments are welcome of if you have specific questions about the game, feel free to use the comment function.

8:47

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8:48	Starting lineups with the sound of Star Wars

8:49	Petravicius starts witha nice back to the basket move for the first bucket of the game

8:50	The arena is slowly starting to fill, for the moment, i guess it is about 7000 people here

8:50	Both teams seem to be very nervous with tunrovers and bad passes

8:51	Now Jiri Welsch opens the scoreboard for the spanish with a triple but Petravicius hits back

8:52	2nd foul already for Petravicius

8:53	The crowd is pretty quiet here in Malaga, it is different from Charleroi where there was much more chants and fans firing their team on

8:54	Petravicius left the court now for Anisimovas

8:54	and the first “machaca” for Santiago after a bad played help defense down low

8:56	and the third foul for Nielsen and it is only plaed 4 minutes in the game, he is replaced by Bajramovic

8:56	The isndie sector of the Lithuanians has some trouble now as both of the starters have foul trouble very early. and JP Batista seems to have a problem as he did not step on the court

8:57	However Hollis Price increases the lead to 7-11 with an open three ball and Malaga struggles to inbound the ball and gets a 5 second call

8:58	there are also 12 fans here from Lithuania and you hear them for the first time now

8:59	And Chuck Eidson goes for one of his trademark left handed dunks

9:00	Malaga really has problems on the offensive end. There seems to be a bad execution of the systems as they dont really get open shots. and when they have one, they miss it. Luckily, they can go to the line to increase their scoring

9:00	And luckily for me it is Jimenez, as I have him on my Fantasy team

9:01	[Comment From elaj] Hello, I envy you all. 🙂

9:01	Hey elaj, welcome to the live blog Always nice to hear from you

9:02	The game is not on a very high level at the moment. defensively both teams are present but it is nothing spectacular. and another inside score for Rytas

9:03	The Spaniards have to force the penetration game to have something going on. Of course they go to the foul line but it is far away from being beautiful basketball

9:04	[Comment From elaj] How’s my all time favourite foreign ex-Olimpija player Jiri Welsch doing?

9:04	[Comment From Tobias] I love you guys 😉

9:04	Welsch is having a mediocre game until now, he scored the first basket of the Spanish team with a triple

9:05	[Comment From elaj] That’s gay.

9:05	[Comment From elaj] 🙂

9:05	What is strange too, is that there has been no timeouts so far

9:06	[Comment From elaj] Nothing new in Jiri world then… 🙁 NBA totally killed him as a player.

9:06	But now a triple Berrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrni and Malaga starts to play basketball in defense too

9:06	17-18 and last attack for them

9:07	Cabezas going for some crazy cross over moves and gets the foul call

9:08	End of the first quarter at 19-18

9:08	MAlaga played basketball in the last two minutes that’s it to lead against a Rytas team that is in big foul trouble under the basket

9:09	[Comment From elaj] Guys do you also follow Prokom – Siena on netcasting? Siena is killing Prokom 48:74. 😀

9:10	Wow, seems to be pretty close there in Poland, I guess Philipp Eurobasket is having some tears in his eyes

9:10	and another triple to start the Q2 for Berrnrnrnrnrnrnrriiiiiiii

9:10	JP Batista is now on the court, so no trouble about him

9:13	Hollis PRice seems to have no problems as he hits another jumper

9:14	[Comment From elaj] Netcasting says: Popovic, Rodriguez, Kus, Welsch, D’dong all on court? That’s a strange lineup imo. 🙂

9:15	strange but true

9:15	now cabezas is back on the court for Berni

9:15	and Chuck Eidson is hiiting free throw to bring Rytas back to 26-24 after he got fouled on the three point line

9:15	[Comment From elaj] Who’s the playmaker?

9:16	Popvis is bringing up the ball against Jomantas

9:16	Popovic, what am I writing here

9:17	And the purest Jumpshot is hitting a big one with Davor Kus making the shot from the top of the three point line

9:17	What a nice duell inside now between JP Batista and Boniface N’Dong

9:18	But directly, N’Dong goes to the bench as he has no chance to stop BAtista without fouls

9:18	[Comment From elaj] I always liked the way Kus shots the ball. Perfect jumpshot in my opinion.

9:19	huge play with Santiago going for the power slam over the whole defense

9:19	31-26 for Malaga and the public is heating up on a foul decision from Popvic

9:19	Malaga is already in the foul limit with 5min41 to go

9:19	[Comment From Tobias] please tell me that Ndong is playing well .. I need his Euroleague points – BAD! 🙂

9:20	Hey Tobi, I have to say, he sucks

9:20	no he has some trouble to defend on the big guys down low so he went back to the bench

9:20	[Comment From elaj] Santiago whined to reffs/ other team players already? He cried like a baby every game I watched him play. 🙂

9:21	Bajramovic brings his team back with a nice three ball when Welsch comes back to the court

9:22	very strange travel call on Santiago who started to attack JP on the drive hook

9:22	Jomantas is practicing for the Lithuanian Oscar awards already as he fakes really badly a wrong screen

9:23	[Comment From elaj] I’m glad Bajramovi? returned to serious basketball again. His episode in Ukraine… what the hell… he picked freaking Ukraine and rejected an offer of Olimpija – we all know why, money, money more money. 🙂

9:23	[Comment From elaj] Strange call on Santiago? Is he whining already?

9:23	no whining so far from Santiago but yet another Machaca

9:32	[Comment From elaj] That’s strange, are you sure that’s Santiago you’r watching? 🙂

9:42	Finally I am back

9:43	I really need a new PC so if there any pc manufacturers who wnat to sponsor me a new laptop, you are welcome

9:43	It is halftime now, 40-37 for Malaga but not a great game so far

9:44	When you check the stats, of course the nice game of Carlos Jimenez has to be pointed out with 8pts and 4 received fouls. He might have been a good acquisition this week for the Euroleague Fantasy game

9:44	So just to let you know, if I am not writing again for several minutes, that means that PC is going crazy

9:48	VERTIGO from U2 is doing the job here to go for the second half

9:48	ok the second half just started

9:49	the blogging tool seems to go crazy now after my PC doing strange things sorry for the inconvenience to the few readers of the live blgo that have remained

9:50	and a nice And1 play from Berni to start the scoring for Malaga

9:50	Rytas starts to be unlucky under the basket with some missed layups

9:51	but Matt Nielsen scores after a push on Jimenez who flies to the camera and does not want to stand up again. And the ref asks to Jimenez to stand up before he gets a T. of course he did not get the T. but the cinema is over

9:53	Rytas is dominating the offensive boards and Jomantas is hitting both of his FTs to bring Rytas back to 43-41

9:53	The crowd is going really excited now as Berni is falling down on the ref

9:54	but what a nice steal of Welsch now

9:54	THERE IS THE T FOR JIMENEZ ON CINEMA

9:54	and now the arena is heated up

9:54	HELLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO do you hear me???

9:55	Hollis Price ice cold connects the FTs to even the score

9:55	and a fastbreak brings every back to happiness here

9:56	and now for the first tine the atmosphere is huge with Malaga Malaga chants

9:56	[Comment From elaj] We hear you 🙂

9:56	[Comment From caka] just continue to comment

9:56	and the fmaous Malaga song is starting

9:56	and what a nice D by BAtista on Boni who falls down as he tried to post up strong against the largest Brazilain in Europe

9:58	huge block on Welsch and questionnable foul call again on the break

9:58	the people are going crazy right now

9:58	and the refs discuss among each other

9:58	Time Out at 45-45

9:59	I guess we will see some calls in favor of Malaga right now

9:59	and the crowd is encouraging a guy with a drum just behind the Rytas bench to distrub the time out of the Lithuanians