Tikteknu: clip summarizing today's events in sports, 10.2 (Sport1)
1. "Suddenly the ring seemed big", chapter 7
"I just talked to my wife, and I told her that I feel good in this hall. I don't know why, I don't have an explanation for this phenomenon, but I always like it here. In my eyes, this is the temple of basketball. I was waiting for the game to come to me. At first I didn't force myself on the game , and after I scored two difficult shots, everything became much easier. Suddenly, the ring looks big, and then you score in any situation, even when you have two guards on you."
Nemanja Nadovich said these things to me right after his big show in Tel Aviv.
But not yesterday (Thursday), but two years ago, when he scored 39 points in a Panathinaikos uniform, setting a record for a visiting player in Yad Eliyahu since the legendary Nick Gallis in 1988.
"Wow, since Galis haven't scored so many here?", he was surprised.
"I am very satisfied with my personal display, but it would have been perfect if we had won. I hope I will have evenings like this again - but with a victory."
So now he came with the Red Star in Belgrade - and won.
This time he scored only 28 ("Only", Bow 1), and was satisfied with only six three-pointers and not the seven he had then with Pau ("Only", Bow 2).
In the belt of "Nada" there are seven games in the Menorah Mivathim Hall;
He didn't always play a lot, but every minute he spent on the court turned into a flood of baskets and a flood of points.
And translating to numbers - 137 points in 149 minutes.
19.5 in 21.2 on average.
With 28 three-pointers at 50 percent, on the way.
Just for comparison, LeBron James reached only 119 minutes in his last 150 minutes on the floor ("only", come 3), and that's in a league where "it's easier to score a basket than in the Euroleague", as Luca Donche defined it J.
Nadovich's regular performance came precisely in his rather lukewarm season, as far as three-point shooting is concerned.
This machine stood, until last night, at a paltry 21.6 percent in Namania's mania terms;
But it was not mysticism that brought him to the monstrous rank he reached.
True, he scored difficult shots that really made him believe that the ring looked big, and there is hardly a player in Maccabi Tel Aviv who did not find himself guarding it, or at least trying to.
But the yellow defense also allowed him to get where he got to.
Sometimes she came out to him in hysterical exchanges of barriers, sometimes accompanied him only with glances, and in many cases his players came to the aid of others - and were punished immediately.
"Temple of basketball".
Nadovich in his favorite hall (photo: Danny Maron)
2. Let's fight!
(or: we will grab a 21:0 run)
In Belgrade, the days are counted until Paco Campaso is taken out of the freezer, and the Red Star has only one more Euroleague game left without him.
And this fact makes Maccabi's loss even more dramatic;
Had she kept her fortress, she would have opened a gap of three victories over the Serbs, effectively removing them from the direct battle between them for the position.
The message could have been clear: Camposo is great, but for fantasy.
You missed the train to the playoffs (and if you didn't, then at least you won't pass us in the table).
But now, having lost, only one win separates the two teams, and Tserbana Zavezda has an advantage over the Yellows in any internal table that will be formed.
Or in two words: a bundle of trouble.
From the very first moment there was something in the air of the hall that foreshadowed what was about to happen.
Maccabi Tel Aviv seemed to lack desire and energy, and if the crowd is worth 15 points in a game according to the cliché - then they too suffered a weak shooting night of 2 of 10 from the field.
In the first three attacks, the locals made three shots out of three, with zero movement, coordination or sophistication;
One of them was launched even after the time, and the other two landed in open areas.
The Red Star ran to 0:12 during the second quarter, encountered no real opposition and cruised easily towards the goal.
Going into the second half, Oded Ketesh tried to convey a message to his players, and brought up his three Israelis (John DiBartholomew, Rafi Manko and Roman Sorkin) in the top five, who would bring with them the same missing energies and provide hustle, fighting and dynamism.
The result: Maccabi Tel Aviv conceded 13 points in four minutes, and nine of them came from five offensive rebounds.
Oh, speaking of offense: the local trio settled for a turnover and rebound offensive revival, and didn't even take a shot.
The Doshko's ran to 0:9 and ran to 41:57;
In a game that finally ended on the edge of a basket, two runs of 0:21 are a complete world.
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Braymo in front of Petrushev (photo: Danny Maron)
3. Who misses Lorenzo the most?
The final result lies - because despite the heroic-something comeback in the last quarter, which also brought the crowd to life, it was a 15-point game.
It was the strange lineup with Jake Cohen and Suleiman Braymo in both interior positions that brought the yellows back into the game.
Cohen came up behind 71:55, scored a quick basket and even took a defensive rebound.
Yes, yes, a defensive rebound, against the unimaginable offensive celebration of the guests.
And it's time to dwell a little on Wade Baldwin.
On the day Lorenzo Brown was injured, his partner, friend and complement scored 33 glorious points on Alba Berlin's head.
We warned then that these phenomenal displays of personality could come at a price;
And as long as Maccabi is left in Baldwin's talented hands, it will be more like Scotty Wilbkin's team from 2018-2022.
That is, you will live and die on one player, no matter how big he is.
That's what happened to her for the better against the Germans, and a little less for the better in the deciding minutes in Barcelona, and somewhat marginally in Valencia.
The same thing happened yesterday.
Baldwin is a great actor.
His 38 points are a club record in the Euroleague version of the 2000s, and he surpassed Saronas Jasikvicius (in Bens Zalgiris, 19 years ago) and - somewhat symbolically - Wilbkin (last year against Monaco) by one point.
His ability to take a ball and bring it directly to the ring is amazing, and stems in no small part from the way in which he stops and goes up for a pull-up jump from half a distance with tremendous accuracy.
Five fouls from the penalty until yesterday, and five more yesterday.
Wade Baldwin is missed (photo: Danny Maron)
But again, this dependence has a price.
Baldwin accumulated only 28 minutes of rest in the last four Euroleague games - the vast majority of them due to being involved in fouls in the pair of games in Spain - and the fatigue was evident on the free throws;
Until Brown's injury, he was 38-for-39 from the line this season, and has missed at least one shot in every game since.
He had five fouls in 18 appearances until yesterday, and five more yesterday.
Those around him also paid for it.
None of Maccabi's tall players is a goal player in the paint, but what happened yesterday is already extreme - and basically illustrates that this team does not have a face game.
Josh Nieveau finished 0-for-2, Roman Sorkin went 2-for-2, Breimo and Cohen were 1-for-1 to lead off and Jarel Martin went 0-for-1.
In total - four baskets for two - too few, very few, against 15 of 23 made by the four interior players of the Red Star.
Brown may have been wrong when he rushed to sign the new contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv;
If he had waited after yesterday's game, it is not impossible that he could have added at least another 100 thousand dollars to himself in the season.
And the one who misses him the most, even more than Nebo, is Baldwin.
He wasn't brought in for carrying the ball and managing the game, and that's not what he came for.
When the landlord returns, maybe his dominance will decrease, but his life will be much easier and simpler - and mostly goal-oriented: to make points, and not other nonsense.
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