Just two days after the painful loss to Olympiacos, Maccabi Tel Aviv is currently hosting Basconia in the 20th round of the Euroleague. The club may not define it as a game of be or cease, but the meeting with the Spaniards is perhaps one of the Yellows’ last chances to qualify for the playoffs, as Basconia is ranked one place above them in the table and any result other than tonight’s victory will keep Yannis Sapropoulos and his players off the season. The regular.
Maccabi Tel Aviv, which surrendered 89:87 to Olympiacos at the end of overtime yesterday, defeated the Basques 63:67 a month ago thanks to 15 points from Tyler Dorsey, who is careful to maintain instability this season and provided a weak performance last Tuesday, which may increase the chances of the guard showing Good ability tonight. The Yellows, who are in 13th place with eight wins from 19 games, will need to improve their defense to complete a seasonal sweep over Basconia and also reduce the amount of ball losses, having recorded 21 such on Tuesday and Scotty Wilbkin finished with a negative club record for a single player, with eight total Everything. Sapropoulos has a full staff at its disposal, except for Sandy Cohen who is positive for Corona this week.
On the other hand, Dusko Ivanovic’s team also comes after a loss, or in this case a defeat, after absorbing 96:76 from Fenerbahce. At the same time, last week in Ascona, CSKA Moscow broke a streak of 12 Euroleague victories, defeating them 93:95. Unlike their previous encounter with the Yellows, this time they will have at their disposal Argentine coordinator Luca Wildosa, one of the important players on the squad who was injured in the previous game .
the progress of the game
Maccabi Tel Aviv started in a quintet with Scotty Wilbkin, Elijah Bryant, Yuval Sussman, Dragan Bender and Ante Zizic. Basconia with Luca Wildusa, Tadas Sadkarskis, Yusufa Pal, Rocas Guidraitis and Achilla Polonara. The game opened with four consecutive Basque points, who also took an offensive rebound with no problems and kicked off a quick Sapropolos timeout. Sussman scored the Yellows’ first points with a 3-pointer and shrank to 6: 3. The Spaniards continued to run and two points from Žižić shrank to 11: 7. Bryant’s four in a row equalized and Dibertolomao’s three gave Maccabi Tel Aviv their first advantage of the game. Later, the two teams continued to score non-stop and remained close to each other. Angelo Cloiaro’s points sealed the quarter. 21:26 to Maccabi Tel Aviv at the end of the first quarter.
Oz Blazer opened the second quarter with a basket and an offense, but missed from the line. Hunter’s points set 26:30 for Maccabi Tel Aviv, but Dragic responded quickly on the other side of the floor. Omri Caspi entered the game later and saw Pieria Henry shrink to 32:30, but Bryant buried two speeds from the other side. Basconia again shrunk the The difference is only four points, but Dizzych’s dunk and points from Caspi’s line set 32:40 for Maccabi Tel Aviv. Dragic and Henry scored five quick points for the visitors, but Bender responded with an important three. Henry later snatched a pass from Caspi and shrank to 43:39 and Dragic added a dunk, Bryant’s points from the line and Cloiaro widened the gap, 43:47 to Maccabi Tel Aviv at the end of the first half.
