Tiktukno: summary of today's events in sports, 12.21 (Sport1)
1.
Maccabi Tel Aviv's positive momentum continued last night (Thursday) with an important 70:83 away victory for the Yellows over Elba Berlin in the 15th round of the Euroleague.
Maccabi took one more step towards its playoff dream and two rounds to the end of the first round it stands on a record of eight wins against seven losses, including three wins in the last four rounds.
At the end of the game, the players thanked the hundreds of fans who came to support the team in the away game in Berlin and then left to rejoice in the dressing room, with coach Oded Ketch congratulating the players on an impressive second half in which Maccabi stopped the rival from the bottom of the Euroleague table with only 23 points.
"For almost three quarters it felt like another game that we couldn't take away," said one of the club's people from Berlin, "something changed in the last 12 minutes, we showed a lot of toughness, a lot of heart and character. It's a victory that shows a lot about what this team can bring out of itself , and all of this is still understaffed."
His best game of the season.
Jarel Martin (Photo: Danny Maron)
Jarl Martin, who excelled with 21 points, said at the end: "It's a big win for us, we raised the defensive intensity, we started getting the rebounds and everything changed for us. The coach pressures us to take the rebounds in the attack, and get easy points, and that got us into the game. The away victories changed The momentum for us, it was difficult for us at the beginning of the season, I hope we can pull it into the next games."
Jaylen Adams added: "I think we stayed together, we have good communication, we listened to the game plan and we were able to come out of it. It's an important win to go home with, but we know that December, January and February are the important months of the season, we won't be too relaxed, We want to keep moving forward."
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2.
The first half last night reminded of Maccabi's bad away games this season.
Alba Berlin scored 47 points, including 6 three-pointers with good percentages, with some of the shots being very good.
"You can't play defense like that and win," Oded Ketch told the players.
Maccabi came out completely different for the second half, showed much more toughness, prevented most of the free throws, and even when they made a mistake luck was with them.
Elba was stopped in the last quarter on 2 points for almost 9 and a half minutes, and from there she could no longer return.
"Like against Valencia, like in many minutes against Milan, we will only win games through a good defense," they said at the club last night, "also against Virtus we played a better defense than we showed until a month ago and we are on the trend of improvement in almost all aspects of the game."
managed to stabilize the defense.
Oded Ketch (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)
3.
The man of the match last night was as mentioned Jarl Martin.
The forward who came to the Yellows this year scored 21 points, added 7 rebounds and was the most significant player in the minutes when almost nothing else worked for the Yellows.
Maccabi are not surprised by the good play of Martin who has been in a good period recently with an average of 13.3 points in his last three Euroleague games compared to 4.6 points in the first 11 games of the season.
Martin's bad start to the season, together with his injury that prevented him from going to one of the away games, caused some Maccabi people to give up on him, but as time passed, thanks to the team, he began to get involved.
"He has never played in this style, and that should not be forgotten for a moment," the club said during the night, "you see that he is catching up with the gap he had at the beginning of the season, and he now looks exactly like what we wanted from him. Stretch 4 with a big body, he can be Our difference between success and failure this season."
It has also been blooming recently.
Jaylen Adams (photo: official website, Instagram Maccabi Tel Aviv)
4.
Who else recorded a very good game last night and is generally in a good time is Jaylen Adams.
The guard who joined Maccabi after the start of the season following Darren Hilliard's injury finished the match with 17 points, a good percentage, and apparently he likes playing in Germany because a few weeks ago against Bayern Munich he scored 21 points, while in the rest of the games he scores 3.2 points on average.
Maccabi Tel Aviv's option on Adams until the end of the season expires in two weeks, on January 7, and the club has not yet spoken with the player or his agent about the continuation of the season, when Maccabi in general needs to announce whether he continues or not.
The tendency of the yellows is to continue with Adams, also in light of Wade Baldwin's injury, an injury that Maccabi does not want to return, and want to keep the roster as balanced and broad as possible.
The fact that Adams is also registered for league games, unlike Austin Hollins, gives him priority at this point.
Should return today from a long injury and play against Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Shane Larkin (Photo: GettyImages, Seskim Photo/MB Media)
5.
Maccabi has an important game in the league against Hapoel Galil Oliyon this coming Sunday in Kfar Bloom, a game that the Yellows want to win to prevent Hapoel Tel Aviv from running away at the top of the table, but the Yellows look ahead at the schedule and see that they have two of the best teams in the Euroleague in front of them until the end of the first round.
On Thursday, Euroleague champion Anadolu Eps will tell the Menorah Hall, which although did not impress in the last two games, is still considered a very high quality team and will arrive this time with the excellent Shane Larkin.
A week later, Maccabi will play an away game against Real Madrid.
Actually the start of the second round is more convenient for the Yellows, but Maccabi knows that in order to avoid unnecessary pressure, they should strive to take at least one of the next two games.
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