Maccabi Tel Aviv opens the second round of the Euroleague this evening (Wednesday), hosting Partizan Belgrade in the 18th round.
Oded Ketch's team comes to the game in ninth place with nine wins and eight losses, while the Serbian opponent is ranked in 11th place with eight wins and nine losses.
Ketch hopes to recover from the painful defeat to Real Madrid and start the busy week on the right foot, which will also include an away game against Panathinaikos on Friday night.
On the other hand, the opponent is in peak form, with four consecutive Euroleague victories.
One of the reasons for this is the very good ability of Yam Medar, who excelled last week against Monaco and will hope to lead Partizan to its first victory at Yad Eliyahu since 2009/10.
The stars in the squad of Jeljko Oberdovic are Kevin Panter, ex-Maccabi Tel Aviv Matthias Lesor, Dante Axum and Zach Liday.
In the first meeting between the teams, earlier this season, the yellows won 88:96.
The opponent has excellent momentum.
Baldwin (Photo: Danny Maron)
Quarter 1
Maccabi Tel Aviv started this game with a storm.
Coulson and Brown scored on Yam Medar's head and two baskets by Josh Nivo after Medar's fouls sent the yellows to a quick 0:8.
Baldwin scored a hard basket and Overdovich called a timeout after a quick 0:10 in less than 4 minutes.
But Partizan came back from the timeout with a confused attack and Colson completed a 0:12 run until Zach Liddy finally scored the first basket for the visitors.
Euroleague 2022/23
Group
games
victories
draw
losses
baskets
points
1
Real Madrid
18
12
0
6
1387-1521
30
2
Monaco
18
12
0
6
1455-1466
30
3
Barcelona
17
11
0
6
1315-1365
28
4
Olympiakos Piraeus
18
11
0
7
1376-1533
29
5
Fenerbahce/Olker
18
11
0
7
1423-1501
29
6
in Ascona
18
11
0
7
1464-1539
29
7
Anadolu Zero
17
9
0
8
1317-1399
26
8
Maccabi Tel Aviv
17
9
0
8
1388-1369
26
9
Zalgiris Kovna
18
9
0
9
1413-1379
27
10
the red star
18
9
0
9
1412-1350
27
11
Partisan Belgrade
17
8
0
9
1444-1436
25
12
Virtus Bologna
18
8
0
10
1460-1390
26
13
Valencia
17
7
0
10
1434-1375
24
14
Villerban
17
7
0
10
1337-1276
24
15
Bayern Munich
18
7
0
11
1408-1368
25
16
Milan
18
7
0
11
1359-1282
25
17
Panathenaic Athens
18
6
0
12
1505-1419
24
18
Alba Berlin
18
5
0
13
1517-1446
23
This is a double week in the Euroleague.
On Friday, Maccabi Tel Aviv will host Panathinaikos as part of the 19th round.
sport
basketball
Euroleague and European basketball
Tags
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