Barça 92-95 La Laguna Tenerife: Bitter defeat

The Barça basketball team went down to a 95-92 defeat against La Laguna Tenerife in a game that went right down to the wire. After keeping pace with the visitors for the entire first half, the team from the Canary Islands opened up a gap late on. Barça had the chance to send the game into overtime but Jabari Parker's effort bounced out. 

Early parity 

Barça knew it wouldn't be easy in the Palau against the side that knocked them out of the Copa del Rey. Tenerife came into the game in third place in the league and the visitors began the game focused, causing five turnovers early on. Barça, however, kept pace and at the end of the first quarter the teams were locked together at 19-19. 

At the start of the second period, Tenerife's shooting took a dip and Joan Peñarroya's team forced their way back into the contest. At half time the blaugranes held a slender lead at 40-39. An equal third quarter saw the team again inseparable as they went into the final period all square at 65-65. 

A poor beginning to the final quarter saw Barça fall 10 points behind after a period where Tenerife outscored them 14-3. The blaugranes clawed their way and at 95-92, Parker had a three pointer that could have taken the game into overtime, but his effort bounced out to condemn Barça to defeat. 

MATCH STATS

BARÇA, 92
LA LAGUNA TENERIFE, 95

Barça: Satoransky (11), Fall (4), Abrines (3), Parker (10), Parra (14) - starting five - Anderson (10), Sarr (10), Brizuela (12), Metu (12), Hernángomez (9), Villar (-).

La Laguna Tenerife: Kramer (20), Heurtas (19), Scrubb (5), Shermadini (20), Doornekamp (13) - starting five - Kostadinov (0), Fernández (12), Costa (0), Sastre (2), Abromaitis (0), Guerra (4).