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When Maccabi Tel Aviv parted ways with Scotty Wilbkin last summer, it decided that this year it was going for a different concept - instead of one star who has everything on his shoulders, two guards who will lead the yellows from the back line.
Wade Baldwin and Lorenzo Brown were placed in Eliyahu's hand to produce one of the most frightening pairs of guards in the Euroleague, but the numbers, and especially the position in the table, show that the cooperation is still not perfect.
The two guards cooperated in the first ten games of the European season, but in the 14 games that have passed since then, Maccabi Tel Aviv has come up with both of them together only four more times - not including the home game against Alba Berlin in which Brown was injured after less than five minutes.
If something unexpected does not happen in Brown's section, the two will return to cooperate tonight (Thursday, 21:05) in the Euroleague against Bayern Munich after over a month, and this is exactly the opportunity to see how the numbers of each of them are affected by the presence or absence of the other.
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Score more when they are apart.
Brown and Baldwin (Photo: Danny Maron)
Baldwin and Brown share the sixth place in the factory in average points per game with 16.6, when the average of the player of the Spanish national team was obviously hurt a little following that game in which he was injured in the first quarter and did not score.
Therefore, the data presented from now on refer to the game against Alba as one in which Brown was not involved.
In those five games without Brown, Baldwin twice broke his Euroleague career record (and once the club record) and the average jumped to 23.8 points.
With Brown?
The average drops by almost ten points to 14.07 for the evening.
In the opposite case, the decrease is less sharp, but the trend is similar.
Like Baldwin, Brown also broke the career record in the Euroleague when his friend was not by his side with 36 points, which were not enough to get an away win against the same Bayern Munich that he will meet tonight.
In the five games without No. 5 in yellow, No. 4 jumped to 22.4 points per game, compared to 15.64 points when the two were on the floor together.
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The injuries to both made it difficult to improve the chemistry.
Brown and Baldwin (Photo: Danny Maron)
In fact, on only two occasions this season did both Baldwin and Brown cross the 15-point mark in the same Euroleague game.
The first time it was not enough to prevent a home loss to Barcelona, the second time it ended in a comeback in the hall against Olympiakos.
Also, the evening when Oded Ketch got the fewest points from the two stars, whether they both played or just one of them, was in the defeat to Real Madrid in which both were at the coach's disposal.
Baldwin returned that evening from an injury that sidelined him for four rounds and recorded a game of only three points, Brown also did not stand out and settled for nine.
Another interesting figure shows that the absence of one of the stars does not dramatically affect the balance of the Yellows.
In games with the two stars, the Israeli representative in the factory stands at seven wins and seven losses, and even without one of them, she also stands at 50% success and a balance of 5:5.
will be pushed aside?
Adams next to Baldwin (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)
How does it affect others?
Naturally, the biggest beneficiary of Brown or Baldwin's absence is Jaylen Adams.
A former player of Hapoel Jerusalem was placed in the hall as a backup for Darren Hilliard when he was injured, but in practice became a backup for the two stars when one of them is not absent or gets a rest in the Premier League.
When both are fit, Adams is often pushed aside, certainly in the local framework, as could be seen in his non-registration for the pair of games in cup week.
Adams recorded six Euroleague games in double figures this season - in five of them one of the two stars was absent.
The only time Adams reached double digits when both Brown and Baldwin were available for catch was in the same crash in Madrid.
For the next point provider in the back line, John DiBartholomew, the situation is quite similar.
The citizen of the Yellows scored four times this season in double figures in Europe - only once it happened alongside the two stars.
Ketch needs both stars at their peak.
Brown (Photo: GettyImages, Sonia Canada)
The injuries to the two probably made it difficult to build and improve the chemistry between them in the back line, but now, ten games to the end of the regular season, Ketch will finally be able to enjoy his two main stars for the final alignment.
Ketch still has challenging home games against Fenerbahçe, Baskonia, Real Madrid and the two Italian teams, along with difficult away games in Monaco, Istanbul and Kovna, and in the meantime he is looking at the top 8 from the outside.
Now Yad Eliyahu also knows that in order to eventually get the ticket to the playoffs, they will need both Brown and Baldwin at their peak at the same time.
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