{"id":481586,"date":"2026-01-30T22:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=481586"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:44:32","slug":"buesa-arena-lifts-baskonia-as-the-second-half-surge-settles-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/buesa-arena-lifts-baskonia-as-the-second-half-surge-settles-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Buesa Arena lifts Baskonia as the second-half surge settles it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2227\" data-end=\"2566\">Baskonia defeated \u017dalgiris Kaunas 102-91 at <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Buesa Arena<\/span><\/span> in the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">EuroLeague<\/span><\/span>, improving to 9-16 while the Lithuanians fell to 14-11. <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sylvain Francisco<\/span><\/span> led all scorers with 30, but the visitors couldn\u2019t turn that into a real shot at the win.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2568\" data-end=\"2822\">\u017dalgiris opened 14-5 and briefly looked in control, yet the early edge faded as Baskonia gradually stabilized the game. By halftime the home side had nudged in front 46-45, setting the stage for a second half where the \u201cBuesa factor\u201d would weigh heavier.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2824\" data-end=\"3336\">After the break, Baskonia kept building and carried positive momentum into the closing minutes with confidence and depth. Six players scored in double figures\u2014<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Markus Howard<\/span><\/span> 15, Mamadi <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Mamadi Diakite<\/span><\/span> 11, Kobi <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Kobi Simmons<\/span><\/span> 12, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Rodions Kurucs<\/span><\/span> 15, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Timoth\u00e9e Luwawu-Cabarrot<\/span><\/span> 19 and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Trent Forrest<\/span><\/span> 16\u2014while \u017dalgiris couldn\u2019t find enough support beyond Francisco\u2019s big night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u017dalgiris starts fast and hangs around to halftime, but Baskonia\u2019s momentum after the break proves decisive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":481585,"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-481586","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\/2026\/01\/G_8PyMHWgAAGDpA.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481586","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=481586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481586"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=481586"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=481586"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=481586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}