Maccabi Tel Aviv's Euroleague season continues now at the Hall of Peace and Fraternity in Piraeus, where the Yellows meet Olympiakos as part of the 22nd round.
The Yellows come to the game from the sixth place in the Euroleague table, after the painful loss to Partizan Belgrade, with 12 wins and nine losses in their league, while the Greek opponent, who ranks one place below them, has 11 wins and 10 losses.
Lorenzo Brown, who was rested against Hapoel Afula, is suffering from back pain and is not available to Oded Ketch.
Brown played with a pain reliever shot in the previous two games but this time it was decided not to risk it.
Therefore, the one who will have to take the reins in the back line will be Tamir Blatt who will surely get a lot of minutes from Ketch.
By the way, the last victory of the Yellows in Piraeus was in the 2019/20 season and in order to reproduce it, they will have to stop Alec Peters (15.1 points per game this season in the Euroleague).
The one missing from the host is the giant chin Mustafa Pal.
The canal in Brown's absence.
Tamir Blatt/official website, Elad Goldstein, Maccabi Tel Aviv
the progress of the game
The opening of the game belonged to Olympiakos, who flew to a quick 2:9 with a three-pointer by Kanan and a basket by Milotinov, who celebrated in front of the yellow color.
Blatt tried to get the yellows back into business with a 3-pointer, but Maccabi couldn't find an answer to Milotinov and Kanan, whose 3-pointer gave the hosts a record 7:20 lead.
Tamir Blatt scored a second three-pointer, but Papanicolaou sniped from the other side.
But right at the end of the first quarter, John DiBartolomeu flashed him with two consecutive 3-pointers and a basket by Rivero made it 18:26 for the Greeks at the end of the first quarter.
Maccabi Tel Aviv continued to offset the difference at the start of the second quarter as well.
Rivero scored in the paint, the Greeks missed and Baldwin's first triple tied the game at 28. However, this is where Maccabi Tel Aviv stopped.
Mitro Long sniped a three-pointer on the other side and Milotinov's basket completed a 0:6 run and put the Greeks back in control.
Maccabi Tel Aviv did not let the guests escape.
Tamir Blatt scored a hard basket, Sorkin blocked Petrushev, but a 3-pointer by Williams-Goss made it 34:39 for the hosts.
Maccabi went to Rivero, who was effective in the paint.
The three-pointers did not go in for the Greeks, but Milotinov took an offensive rebound and scored from the line.
Menko missed a three-pointer and Pannicolaou made it from the line: 36:42 for the Greeks at halftime.
His active game.
Rivero/official website, Elad Goldstein, Maccabi Tel Aviv
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