{"id":157911,"date":"2025-09-21T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T02:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/157911\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T02:45:07","slug":"real-madrid-takes-down-baskonia-for-third-place-in-preseason-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/157911\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid takes down Baskonia for third place in preseason tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Eurohoops Team\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/acb\/1870676\/real-madrid-baskonia-valencia-preseason-euroleague\/mailto:info@eurohops.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a battle for third place in Pontevedra\u2019s EncestaRias tournament, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/real-madrid\/?lang=en\" title=\"Real Madrid\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Real Madrid<\/a> turned a slow start into a comfortable separation in the second half and settled for an 87-80 victory versus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/baskonia\/?lang=en\" title=\"Baskonia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baskonia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Six double-digit scoring showings for Los Blancos, including Andres Feliz combining 14 points with seven rebounds and five assists. Gabriele Procida shared a team-high 14 points, Trey Lyles put up 13 points, and Chuma Okeke posted a 12-point, 10-rebound double-double. Alberto Abalde, Gabriel Deck, Mario Hezonja, and Theo Maledon were unavailable for the team coached by Sergio Scariolo.<\/p>\n<p>Limited to ten dressed players, Mamadi Diakite, Markus Howard, Rodions Kurucs, and Tadas Sedekerskis were the missing on Paolo Galbiati\u2019s side.\u00a0With eight of a game-high 20 points in the fourth quarter, Clement Frisch fueled a comeback bid, reducing the deficit to six points with just over two minutes on the clock.<\/p>\n<p>Later Saturday in the Final, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/valencia\/?lang=en\" title=\"Valencia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Valencia<\/a> made short work of Rio Breogan, ending up at 77-55. A balanced scoring sheet saw Matt Costello stand out with 12 points. Brancou Badio, Ethan Happ, Xabier Lopez-Arostegui, Jean Montero, and Nate Sestina were out.<\/p>\n<p>Shifting to official games, the Supercopa Endesa 2025 features Madrid versus La Laguna Tenerife and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/valencia\/?lang=en\" title=\"Valencia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Valencia<\/a> versus host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/unicaja-malaga\/?lang=en\" title=\"Unicaja\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Unicaja<\/a> in the Semifinals. The four-team tournament is set to be played next weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/baskonia\/?lang=en\" title=\"Baskonia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baskonia<\/a> will navigate the remaining preseason schedule prior to tipping off the 2025-26 schedule in Round 1 of the EuroLeague Regular Season, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/olympiacos\/?lang=en\" title=\"Olympiacos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Olympiacos<\/a> visiting Fernando Buesa Arena on September 30.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/latest-news\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read the latest News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops Team\/ info@eurohoops.net In a battle for third place in Pontevedra\u2019s EncestaRias tournament, Real Madrid turned a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-157911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}