ALBA Berlin – AS Monaco | RS Round 19 Highlights | 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague
Jaron Blossomgame stood out in crunch time to stop ALBA’s comeback. AS Monaco remained atop the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season standings by downing ALBA Berlin 90-105 in the German capital in Round 19 on Thursday. Monaco improved to 13-6 in the standings while ALBA dropped to 3-16.
Mike James led the winners with 23 points and 7 assists. Matthew Strazel added 18 points. Jaron Blossomgame scored 17, Elie Okobo 13, Jordan Loyd 12 and Donatas Motiejunas 11. Matt Thomas and Yanni Wetzell paced ALBA with 17 points apiece. Tim Schneider and Matteo Spagnolo each added 13 for the hosts.
James attacked the baseline for a layup on the game’s opening possession before Thomas got ALBA on the scoreboard with a triple. David McCormack threw down a monster slam and Will McDowell-White drilled a triple as ALBA went in front 8-5. Vitto Brown and Strazel heated up as Monaco raced back in front. Strazel’s second three made it 10-15 midway through the opening quarter. Nick Calathes made his Monaco debut and promptly blocked Wetzell from behind. James went off for 8 straight points – including Calathes’s first 2 assists of the season – to give Monaco a double-digit lead. Schneider ended the ALBA drought and Spagnolo added a jumper. Nevertheless, Monaco continued to roll as Blossomgame converted a three-point play on the break and the visitors finished the quarter up 21-30.
Wetzell beat the shot clock with a layup early in the second quarter. Loyd erased that with a jumper that Okobo followed with a three-pointer for a 23-35 Monaco lead. Motiejunas stepped up with a put-back layup and Strazel’s wild four-point play broke the game open, 23-41. Spagnolo swished consecutive mid-range jumpers and Elias Rapieque added a power layup, but Loyd and Brown kept Monaco comfortably ahead, 29-46. James buried a floater in traffic, Spagnolo and Okobo traded layups before McCormack’s put-back basket brought ALBA within 33-50. Georgios Papagiannis took over with an alley-oop slam and a tip-in, boosting Monaco’s lead to 35-55 at halftime.
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