{"id":475031,"date":"2025-12-19T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=475031"},"modified":"2025-12-19T21:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:04:57","slug":"efes-76-80-dubai-wright-delivers-late-as-dubai-earns-second-road-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/efes-76-80-dubai-wright-delivers-late-as-dubai-earns-second-road-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalgiris Kaunas-Partizan Belgrade 109-68: club-record points, biggest EuroLeague win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1612\" data-end=\"1898\"><strong data-start=\"1612\" data-end=\"1631\">Zalgiris Kaunas<\/strong> crushed <strong data-start=\"1640\" data-end=\"1661\">Partizan Belgrade<\/strong> <strong data-start=\"1662\" data-end=\"1672\">109-68<\/strong>, posting a <strong data-start=\"1684\" data-end=\"1710\">club-record 109 points<\/strong> and their <strong data-start=\"1721\" data-end=\"1741\">biggest-ever win<\/strong> in EuroLeague.<br data-start=\"1756\" data-end=\"1759\" \/>Top scorers: <strong data-start=\"1772\" data-end=\"1796\">Sylvain Francisco 22<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1801\" data-end=\"1820\">Moses Wright 17<\/strong> for Zalgiris; <strong data-start=\"1835\" data-end=\"1858\">Duane Washington 17<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1863\" data-end=\"1884\">Bruno Fernando 16<\/strong> for Partizan.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1900\" data-end=\"2233\">Zalgiris set the tone early with tough defense and aggressive half-court pressure, forcing a stream of contested looks and jumping out to a <strong data-start=\"2040\" data-end=\"2049\">28-15<\/strong> lead after the first quarter. They kept the pace in the second to build a <strong data-start=\"2124\" data-end=\"2142\">53-30 halftime<\/strong> advantage, with Wright dominating the paint (<strong data-start=\"2188\" data-end=\"2213\">12 points, 6 rebounds<\/strong> in the first half).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2235\" data-end=\"2540\">The hosts never let up after the break, stretching it to <strong data-start=\"2292\" data-end=\"2301\">82-47<\/strong> through three quarters and closing the third with a <strong data-start=\"2354\" data-end=\"2365\">7-0 run<\/strong>. Zalgiris continued at full throttle in the fourth, opening a massive <strong data-start=\"2436\" data-end=\"2445\">97-57<\/strong> gap before sealing the 109-68 rout \u2014 a statement response after their heavy home loss to Efes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2542\" data-end=\"2812\">Zalgiris improved to <strong data-start=\"2563\" data-end=\"2571\">10-7<\/strong>, while Partizan dropped to <strong data-start=\"2599\" data-end=\"2607\">6-11<\/strong> after a <strong data-start=\"2616\" data-end=\"2640\">second straight loss<\/strong> this week. Alongside Francisco and Wright, <strong data-start=\"2684\" data-end=\"2704\">Ignas Brazdeikis<\/strong> scored <strong data-start=\"2712\" data-end=\"2718\">15<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2723\" data-end=\"2746\">Nigel Williams-Goss<\/strong> added <strong data-start=\"2753\" data-end=\"2759\">12<\/strong>; for Partizan, <strong data-start=\"2775\" data-end=\"2790\">Isaac Bonga<\/strong> finished with <strong data-start=\"2805\" data-end=\"2811\">12<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2814\" data-end=\"2895\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zalgiris Kaunas crushed Partizan Belgrade 109-68, posting a club-record 109 points and their biggest-ever win in EuroLeague<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":475030,"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-475031","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\/12\/G8joV4pWkAERwdR.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475031","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=475031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475031"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=475031"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=475031"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=475031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}