{"id":272492,"date":"2022-04-23T14:56:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T12:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=272492"},"modified":"2022-04-23T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T12:57:26","slug":"euroleague-playoffs-game-2-mvp-vincent-poirier-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-playoffs-game-2-mvp-vincent-poirier-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Euroleague Playoffs Game 2 MVP: Vincent Poirier, Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dominant two-way performance for the only team to win both of its games so far earned Real Madrid center Vincent Poirier the MVP honor for Game 2 of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Playoffs. Poirier dominated the paint as Real swamped visiting Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv 95-66 on Friday. His double-double of 16 points and 10 rebounds came with 2 assists and 2 blocks for a performance index rating of 31, the best of Game 2.<\/p>\n<p>Next, with a PIR of 29, was Deshaun Thomas of FC Bayern Munich, who starred in his team&#8217;s 75-90 ambush of FC Barcelona on Thursday to even their series 1-1. Thomas buried 6 of 7 three-point shots, tied for the second-most triples downed in any playoff game over the last decade, en route to 25 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists. Following him, Sergio Rodriguez had a PIR of 27 before leaving injured in the fourth quarter from AX Armani Exchange Milan&#8217;s 73-66 home win over Anadolu Efes Istanbul to tie their series 1-1. Rodriguez had 17 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals in that game.<\/p>\n<p>Danilo Andjusic posted career highs of 19 points and 26 PIR to help lead AS Monaco past host Olympiacos Piraeus 72-96 on Friday for another 1-1 series. Andjusic added 5 rebounds, as well, after not playing at all in Game 1. Fifth among the best Game 2 performers was Shavon Shields, who scored 19 of his team-high 21 points in the second half on 8-for-9 two-point shooting to power Milan to victory against Efes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GCdILQAV8ns\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poirier dominated the paint as Real swamped visiting Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv 95-66 on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":272491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-272492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/vincent-poirier.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272492"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=272492"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=272492"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=272492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}