{"id":431650,"date":"2025-03-06T22:52:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=431650"},"modified":"2025-03-06T22:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:52:30","slug":"baskonia-holds-off-zalgiris-as-luwawu-cabarrot-seals-the-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/baskonia-holds-off-zalgiris-as-luwawu-cabarrot-seals-the-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Baskonia holds off Zalgiris as Luwawu-Cabarrot seals the win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1320\" data-end=\"2228\"><strong data-start=\"1320\" data-end=\"1332\">Baskonia<\/strong> secured a hard-fought <strong data-start=\"1355\" data-end=\"1364\">66-65<\/strong> victory over <strong data-start=\"1378\" data-end=\"1397\">Zalgiris Kaunas<\/strong> at <strong data-start=\"1401\" data-end=\"1416\">Buesa Arena<\/strong>, overcoming a strong second-half comeback from the Lithuanian side.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1320\" data-end=\"2228\"><strong data-start=\"1485\" data-end=\"1501\">Pablo Laso&#8217;s<\/strong> team dominated the first half, building a double-digit lead, but saw Zalgiris fight back to take the lead in the final minutes. A crucial basket by <strong data-start=\"1650\" data-end=\"1677\">Timoth\u00e9 Luwawu-Cabarrot<\/strong> and a game-saving block from <strong data-start=\"1707\" data-end=\"1723\">Chima Moneke<\/strong> sealed the win. The best performer for the hosts was <strong data-start=\"1777\" data-end=\"1791\">Donta Hall<\/strong>, who contributed <strong data-start=\"1809\" data-end=\"1848\" data-is-only-node=\"\">11 points, 8 rebounds, and 3 blocks<\/strong>, while <strong data-start=\"1856\" data-end=\"1884\">Moneke and Markus Howard<\/strong> were the top scorers with <strong data-start=\"1911\" data-end=\"1929\">13 points each<\/strong>, with Howard drilling three key three-pointers in the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1320\" data-end=\"2228\">For <strong data-start=\"2003\" data-end=\"2015\">Zalgiris<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2017\" data-end=\"2037\">Ignas Brazdeikis<\/strong> led the way with <strong data-start=\"2055\" data-end=\"2108\">17 points, 8 rebounds, and a 19 efficiency rating<\/strong>. This victory brings Baskonia within two wins of the <strong data-start=\"2162\" data-end=\"2173\">play-in<\/strong> cut and closes the gap on Zalgiris in the standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard and Moneke step up in the final quarter to keep Laso\u2019s team in the race for the play-in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":431649,"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-431650","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\/2025\/03\/GlY1GP1XIAARWVP.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431650","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431650"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=431650"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=431650"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=431650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}