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In the shadow of the defeat, Maccabi Tel Aviv looks ahead: "in a good position for the second round" - Voila! Sport

2023-01-07T06:06:05.951Z


The Yellows closed a round with the humiliation in Madrid, there are no complaints about the rusty Baldwin and they admit that his return will be meaningful ("players will find the place again"). In the racing club from the first round


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Maccabi Tel Aviv won the first round of the Euroleague last night (Friday) with an away defeat 98:65 against Real Madrid.

After 17 games, it is ranked ninth with nine wins and eight losses, close to Zalgiris Kovna, Red Star Belgrade and Anadolu Efes who are ranked between places 7 and 10 in the factory table.



Maccabi had a very hard time getting into the game last night, scoring only 7 points in the first quarter and soon Real ran away to a significant lead from which the yellows were unable to come back.

Even a good end to the first half and mini-momentum at the start of the second did not threaten the home team, which rained down 18 three-pointers on the way to equalizing with that of the leader of the Euroleague table after one round - Olympiakos.



Maccabi welcomed back Wade Baldwin after over a month and the guard looked rusty with only 3 points, but it's hard to come to him with claims when apart from Jaylen Adams who scored 15 points and Josh Niebo who added 11 and 7 rebounds, but one of the team's players did not come close to reasonable ability .



"It was a tough game, we didn't play well," Nibo admitted, "We couldn't score, we lost too many balls - it just wasn't our night. Credit goes to Real Madrid, they played great and had an excellent game plan against us."



The members of the team left the Vizinc Center disappointed, the same hall where they played in the playoffs last year, on their way back to Israel, "Real is a better team than us in terms of staff and in many other elements of basketball," said one of the Maccabi members at the end, "but from here to the loss we suffered, it's a long way. Losses in the Euroleague Such things happen, you need to know how to recover quickly."

Bad evening for the yellows.

Nivo in front of Tavares (Photo: GettyImages)

As mentioned, Maccabi Tel Aviv finished the first round in the Euroleague with a positive balance, something that the club would have quietly bought at the beginning of the season.

A look at the factory table reveals one big surprise, Baskonia with 11 wins, and another surprise with the eighth place of Zalgiris with 9 wins while the other teams are in a fairly equal position.

The fact that in the second round Maccabi will host some of its direct rivals for the playoffs - Red Star, Partizan, Virtus Bologna, and Basconia, encourages the team members.

On the other hand, the Yellows still have to go to difficult away games in Monaco, Kovna, Istanbul and Valencia.



"The first round was solid as far as we were concerned," Nibo said about the first half of the regular season, "we could have been better, but we are in a good position heading into the second round to continue winning games and put ourselves in a position from which we can qualify for the playoffs."



"I think this is an opportunity for us to reconnect and recover," Jaylen Adams commented on the game with a view to the first round in the EuroLeague, "We started to connect towards the end of the first round and I think we need to continue that, not let our heads down because of this loss. We need to keep the Our focus is on the big goal."

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Last night's game was, as mentioned, Baldwin's first in a month, one of the positive months for Maccabi Tel Aviv in which the rotation started to work out.

Baldwin's return again devoured the cards, and the result is a decrease in Darren Hilliard's playing minutes to only 4, when Baldwin's fitness will probably decrease the playing minutes of both Adams and John DiBartholomew.



"It's something that is taken into account," admitted the club, "when a central player is injured and comes back, it takes a game, two, three until things stabilize and the players find their place again. We knew it would happen, from this point of view, it's good that it happened against Real, but we have to overcome it And quickly."



Maccabi has a little more than a week until they inform Jaylen Adams about whether they will take the option on his contract or not.

The club has not yet informed the player or his agent of their intentions, but the estimates are that Adams will finish the season in the yellow uniform.



Maccabi will return to action tomorrow for another league game against Hapoel Haifa, which will continue their load of games in the near future.

On Wednesday, the Yellows will host Partizan Belgrade to open the double week in the Euroleague, on Friday they will host Panathinaikos in Athens, and on the following Monday they will host Bnei Herzliya for the quarterfinals of the State Cup.

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