Barca hangs on for big time win at Cote d'Azur

Monaco 81-82 Barçelona

In a matchup of two 3-3 record teams it is been a crucial matchup for both.

The winning team reaches into Play-In spots with 4-3, but the losing team is with a 3-4 record than and would be very close to Qualifier and Relegation spots in the Euroleague.

The better ending was for Barçelona, who showed off tremendous defense especially by trying to stop Lloyd and Mike James.

Both teams hit around 30% from Three, but at the end Barca hold on to a 3-point lead and tactically tried also to stop the clock, so Monaco could score only 2 points, but not tied up the game.

Stefan Jović, AS Monaco:

"It was a good game! Great game! We couldnt hit our shots, but Barçelona played very very good defense."

Viktor Vladov, Barçelona:

"We almost lost our nerves as Monaco made some comebacks, but we held to our gameplan and defensive adjustments.

We started with zone, but switched almost every posession to surprise the home side. At the end they started to stop click at +3 for us, so did we, to prevent them from scoring a comeback 3. Respect to Stefan and Monaco."