{"id":476604,"date":"2025-12-30T22:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=476604"},"modified":"2025-12-30T22:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:57:56","slug":"thompson-sparks-valencia-early-scare-late-surge-and-top-spot-at-halfway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/thompson-sparks-valencia-early-scare-late-surge-and-top-spot-at-halfway\/","title":{"rendered":"Thompson sparks Valencia: early scare, late surge and top spot at halfway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1796\" data-end=\"2131\"><strong data-start=\"1796\" data-end=\"1826\">Valencia vs Partizan 86-73<\/strong>: standout scorers <strong data-start=\"1845\" data-end=\"1860\">Thompson 17<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1865\" data-end=\"1879\">Reuvers 14<\/strong>; Partizan got key stretches from <strong data-start=\"1913\" data-end=\"1922\">Brown<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1927\" data-end=\"1941\">Osetkowski<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1942\" data-end=\"1945\" \/>Valencia trailed 6-17 early, then flipped it with Thompson\u2019s threes and a decisive fourth-quarter run.<br data-start=\"2047\" data-end=\"2050\" \/>Win No. 13: the Spaniards finish the first half of the season <strong data-start=\"2112\" data-end=\"2130\">in first place<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2133\" data-end=\"2445\">Valencia opened slowly again and paid for it, falling behind 6-17 after 5:18 as Partizan \u2014 led by the heavily booed ex Pe\u00f1arroya \u2014 jumped on the momentum. Thompson changed the tone with seven points in a 12-3 burst that cut it to 18-20, yet Partizan still took the first quarter 22-18 after Fernando scored late.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2447\" data-end=\"2842\">The second quarter turned into a back-and-forth battle. Parker\u2019s three restored a seven-point Serbian lead, then Key and Montero answered and the gap stayed around two possessions, with Jones\u2019 three-point play making it 29-31. Valencia then produced an 11-2 run capped by Badio\u2019s three for a 40-37 edge, but Partizan replied through Bonga, Montero and Washington to tie it at 43-43 at the break.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2844\" data-end=\"3325\">The game remained level deep into the third (55-55 after Montero), and while Bonga and Brown briefly nudged Partizan ahead, Valencia finished the quarter with Thompson\u2019s two straight threes to lead 65-63. In the fourth, Thompson\u2019s 17th point made it +4, a 6-0 push stretched the margin, and a \u201cReuvers show\u201d \u2014 five straight points (14 total) \u2014 opened a three-possession cushion at 80-71 before Valencia closed it out 86-73 to secure its 13th win and top the standings at midseason.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3327\" data-end=\"3411\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valencia vs Partizan 86-73: standout scorers Thompson 17 and Reuvers 14; Partizan got key stretches from Brown and Osetkowski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":476595,"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-476604","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\/55014614894_8730099e6b_k.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476604","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=476604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476604"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=476604"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=476604"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=476604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}