Barça 85-78 UCAM Murcia: Winning start to Liga Endesa (85-78)
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Barça 85-78 UCAM Murcia: Winning start to Liga Endesa (85-78)

The visitors mount an extraordinary comeback in the third period but the Catalans regroup and end up collecting an important win

FC Barcelona got off to a winning that in the Liga ACB, but had to work for it against a tough-spirited UCAM Murcia. And that was despite leading comfortably at the break (42-28), but an impressive Webb, McFadden and Taylor got the opposition right back into the game.

 

Barça were missing Abrines, Sanli and Kyle Kuric, but ended up winning it by seven (85-78), and with fans back in the Palau Blaugrana too. Higgins led the scoring with 18 points.

With Cory Higgins scoring 12 points in the first half, this game looked a done and dusted by the interval, but an extraordinary 6-23 streak meant UCAM amazingly managed to tie things just eight minutes after the restart, and then went ahead…

From there on, things were very tight indeed and it wasn’t until a fine 9-1 streak including a Smits 3-pointer that Barça could finally breathe again.

MATCH STATS

Barça: Calathes (9), Higgins (18), Hayes (4), Mirotic (18), Oriola (7), Davies (17), Sergi Martínez (-), Smits (10), Laprovittola (-), Jokubaitis (2), Badji (-). 

UCAM Murcia: Taylor (18), McFadden (14), Rojas (3), Webb (11), Cate (-), Davis (5), Lima (15), Bellas (9), Malmanis (-), Radovic (3), Czerapowicz (-), Vasileiadis (-). 

Periods: 26-14, 42-28, 58-58, 85-78.

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