Abrines leads Barcelona to 2-1 series lead on Lokomotiv

FC Barcelona Lassa came within one win of making it to the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four by downing Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar 82-70 at Palau Blaugrana in Game 3 of their best-of-five series on Tuesday. Barcelona has a 2-1 lead in the series and hosts Game 4 on Thursday. Alex Abrines scored a career-high 25 points on 6-of-10 three-point shooting off the bench to lead the way. The visitors led 19-23 after 10 minutes, but Abrines scored 13 points, including 3 three-pointers midway through the second quarter, to put Barcelona head 42-36 at halftime. Barcelona found a new go-to guy in Justin Doellman, who got plenty of help from Abrines and Tomas Satoransky to boost the hosts' margin to double digits and the hosts cruised the rest of the way. Satoransky finished with 13 points and Doellman 12. Anthony Randolph led Lokomotiv with 16 points, Malcolm Delaney added 15, while Chris Singleton scored 13 and Matt Janning 11 off the bench.