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The suspension of Othello Hunter frightened the Yellows, but suddenly they discovered that it was possible to go up with three guards, won 3:33 on points from the three, avoided the heavy and heavy Croatian team and put an end to the Lithuanian curse of Sapropoulos. And also: When was the last time Maccabi escaped to 30 points in the half?


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A song for three: The constraints that helped Maccabi Tel Aviv ground Zalgiris Kaunas

The suspension of Othello Hunter frightened the Yellows, but suddenly they discovered that it was possible to go up with three guards, won 3:33 on points from the three, avoided the heavy and heavy Croatian team and put an end to the Lithuanian curse of Sapropoulos.

And also: When was the last time Maccabi escaped to 30 points in the half?

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Ahrela Weisberg

Friday, 13 November 2020, 07:45

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Last night's events on the timeline

1:51 minutes: Maccabi Tel Aviv's first miss for three



4:46 minutes: Zalgiris Kaunas' last advantage disappears



4:46 minutes: Maccabi Tel Aviv's first advantage recorded



10:00 minutes: Maccabi Tel Aviv reaches 10 points Advantage



12:53 minutes: Maccabi Tel Aviv reaches 20 points Advantage



15:30 minutes: The second and final kidnapping of Zalgiris Kaunas



16:11 Minutes: The first points of Scotty Wilbkin



18:39 Minutes: Maccabi Tel Aviv's second miss to three



19:29 minutes: Maccabi Tel Aviv reaches 30 points advantage



24:40 minutes: Maccabi Tel Aviv's only offensive rebound



25:12 minutes: Zalgiris Kaunas' only three-pointer in the game



29:13 minutes: Maccabi Tel Aviv's tenth three-pointer



29:13 minutes: Dragon Bender reaches the double figures in the Euroleague for the first time



39:24 minutes: Dori Sahar's debut basket in the European career

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(Photo: Danny Maron)

The early signs were clearly not encouraging.

At the height of the first real crisis he experienced as the coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv, the game board summoned Yannis Sapropoulos to a meeting with his black sheep - Zalgiris Kaunas, the one he has not been able to beat since landing in Israel;

The one that has subdued him in eight of the last nine games between them;

The one who qualified for the Final Four at his own expense, and in retrospect got him a job at Olympiacos.



And if that history is not enough, then the Greek has discovered that he too will have to make do without Othello Hunter.

Such a thing happened to him only once at Maccabi, during last season.

And he lost that evening.

For Zalgiris, how could it be otherwise.

But this time the picture was reversed: it was precisely the absence of the old chin that devoured the cards and rearranged the soldiers.

By choice or not, it brought about the right order in the Yellows' rotation.



Due to the fact that Maccabi Tel Aviv appeared with Ante Žižić as the only center in the squad, Dragan Bender's place was deducted from the opening five.

I mean, that's one reason, and you can think of a few more to lower his status.

Either way, Sapropoulos relinquished his services as the second highest in the power forward position and the heavy and inefficient team of the two Croats together.

He raised a lower lineup, but no less aggressive and athletic, with Angelo Cloiaro in position number 4, and next to him Sandy Cohen (third) in 3rd.

The forced change in his functioning helped him flourish.

Dragon Bender (Photo: Danny Maron)

Not in front of every opponent it will suffice (ahem, ahem, we will meet on Wednesday at 19:30 in Madrid), but it was an ideal solution against Zalgiris.

Many virtues have been discovered this season in the Lithuanian team, but the color defense is not one of them.

One by one, the opposing chins recorded record games against it: Eddie Tavares rained 22 points on 100 percent from the field, 12 rebounds and a 34 point;

Bryant Dunston reached 20 points and an index of 32, Mustafa Pal set a temporary threshold of 27, Boyan Doblevich recorded 21 and Jonas Jarbeko celebrated with 30 as a second high.



In the absence of Hunter, the fact that Maccabi has no target in color has become clearer.

That is, it has, and is called Žižić, but there is not so much who will reset intentions and activate it.

So she went the opposite way, acting contrary to the habits she had adapted to.

Martin Schiller, with the constant pattern of exchanges and clear division into positions on his team, was left helpless.



Make no mistake - Zalgiris is one of the most trained teams in the Euroleague (at least until last night at 21:10), and she knew well what she was going for, or at least she thought so.

In the first attack she attacked Zizić's defensive weak point against the pick and roll, and Steve and Astoria bounced Joffrey Lubren for a comfortable dunk;

Seconds later, on the other side of the field, a pass inside to the same Žižić immediately led to a double save and spawned a yellow ball loss.

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In less than two and a half minutes, Maccabi already found itself 8: 2 behind, but it had no reason to feel uncomfortable.

A week after the 11: 0 to Anadolu Zero, and a month after the 12: 2 to Moscow Khimki, what is it already minus six.

The Lithuanians looked sharp and focused: every pick and roll in the yellow attack drew warning roars from the south bench of the visiting team, but slowly, as the picture on the board changed, the voices from the direction of the substitutes diminished, until they disappeared.



Cohen, the man and the four threes from the championship final against Maccabi Rishon Lezion, erased the last lag even before they were five minutes into the game.

At 12:12 Bender came in, and the Yellows no longer looked back.

The fact that it was limited to the pivot position only opened up the whole game to more possibilities, forcing Sapropoulos to step out of the regular pattern.

The Croatian took Augustine Robbit, Martinas Gavan and Lubran for trips in the rainbow area, and the impact was multi-systemic: Cloiaro and Oz Blazer were converted to face positions, no longer playing as small forwards, and suddenly the Greek had to play with three guards.



Yes - three guards, in Maccabi Tel Aviv model 2020/21, are not a trivial matter.

With a slight advantage of 14:18, the test balloon was inflated, and Chris Jones, Scotty Wilbkin and Tyler Dorsey marched side by side.

Together with them, for less than seven minutes, the team flew to 4:23, with one of them being involved in each basket as a striker and / or morale.

The Yellows hit 7 of 8 from the field at the same time, while their opponent was stopped at 2 of 8.

Bender, the man who stood at 55 in the plus / minus index until yesterday, reached 23+ only in the first half.

Responsible for one of the teams trained in the Euroleague.

At least until yesterday at 9:10 p.m.

Martin Schiller (Photo: Danny Maron)

Maccabi went down to the half time break with a non-minimal advantage of 23:53, with the team index indicating 9:69, and the difference - in a simplistic way - is made by the threes: the yellows were 9 of 11, and the greens were 0 of 7. Overall, 0:27 on points outside the arc in the first 20 minutes (and 3:33 throughout the entire evening).



And no, Maccabi Tel Aviv did not break a record. She had almost equally purposeful halves during the Sapropolos era (32:55 in Vitoria, tomorrow a year ago; 21:41 last year over Fenerbahce; 35:57 over Barcelona two years ago), and in 2013 she flew with David Blatt to an even higher advantage, 27:61 at the break against Shiktash, on the way to a 58: 101 victory.



Just before midnight, when he got home, Sapropoulos was updated on the results from the rest of the Euroleague games. So maybe Zalgiris is no longer his black sheep, but whoever made it that way - did not even bother to hold the title of the big winner of the evening. Sharonas Jasikevicius made sure that the highest gap yesterday was recorded in his name, with Barcelona's 55: 97 over Fenerbahce.

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