Last night (Thursday) Maccabi Tel Aviv recorded its biggest victory in the Euroleague this season when it beat Anadolu Efes of Turkey with a score of 72:80 thanks to a great fourth quarter in which it won 7:23, and a wonderful game by Lorenzo Brown who led the list of scorers for the host with 23 points and 7 assists .
Oded Ketch's apprentices returned to their home field after five consecutive away games, looked focused and motivated in the first half and even took a double-digit lead thanks to wonderful minutes by Lorenzo Brown and John DiBartholomeo, but the Turks were not pressured and balanced the game.
A tremendous fourth quarter by the Yellows led by Brown changed the momentum and gave the coach his biggest victory of the season.
"Obviously, this is another big win for us," Ketsch said at the end.
"We played against a lot of quality.
Even when you do a good job defending, they find a way to score.
When you play against zero you have to pick your poison.
I felt that at the end of the third quarter we lost some of our energy and I made the decision to go with a small car to bring some energy, and it worked great for us.
This is the second game we won through defense in the fourth quarter.
It was a kind of miracle that only happens here in Tel Aviv, in this hall with this audience.
I'm really proud of the players and happy about the victory."
catch
Satisfied, photo: Alan Shiver
The club expressed satisfaction with the attitude presented by the players and the toughness in the defense, which was one of the team's prominent weak points at the beginning of the season.
The Yellows limited the factory champion to a low score, allowing her to pass the 20-point mark per quarter only once, and stopped Shane Larkin to only 4 points alongside Vasila Micic's 13.
"We knew they had a number of key players. We just wanted to focus on those guys, play strong defense and make some runs to get back into the game, and that happened. As for the runs, that's part of the basketball game (2:22 yellow run). It works like that, but you have to keep On the focus and see how it works out in the end. Professionally, this is undoubtedly our biggest victory this season," concluded Lorenzo Brown who recorded a wonderful game with 23 points and 7 assists.
Lorenzo Brown.
What a great ending to this game, photo: Alan Shiver
One of the issues that occupy the club in addition to the search for reinforcements is the decision whether to keep Jaylen Adams, when according to Ketch "we want him to continue with us until the end of the season. As long as it depends on us, he will stay here".
John DiBartholomew, who recorded a great game with 12 points, summed up the match: "The defense won the game, the crowd pushed us and we managed to beat a very good team.
They were amazing.
We missed them after three weeks, his energy helped us a lot."
Next week, the Yellows will finish the first round games in the factory when they host Real Madrid, but before that they will host Hapoel Eilat and host Hapoel Haifa in the local framework, "Real Madrid? A completely different game plan, very challenging. Not an easy week with two league games that we also need to pass. Let's hope that Wade Baldwin's return will be good because we need him", concluded Ketch.
were we wrong
We will fix it!
If you found an error in the article, we would appreciate it if you shared it with us
