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1. Maccabi Tel Aviv continued last night (Friday) its great period in all formats when it registered its 13th victory in a row since February 8, and the fifth in a row in the Euroleague with a very impressive 74:89 over Bayern Munich away.
Thanks to the victory, Oded Ketch's team secured its place in the play-in stage at the very least, and now hopes to also get a place in the top six in the lockout rounds, or stay in seventh place with the improved chance of entering the play-in in the play-offs.
The Israeli champion knew an illogical swing during the game.
After a relatively tight first quarter, she opened a significant gap in the second quarter and dropped to a 13-point lead at halftime.
In the third quarter, Bayern took control of the game, and at the end of the quarter shrunk to only a point, when they manage to turn the game around at the beginning of the last quarter.
However, in the deciding minutes, the Bavarians got stuck, who in fact lost the chance to enter the playoffs, and saw Maccabi Tel Aviv celebrating the victory at the end.
Five players scored in double figures, with the really crazy stat being the efficiency of Cuban Hasiel Rivero who played just under 12 minutes but scored 17 points.
Wade Baldwin scored 15, James Webb and Lorenzo Brown 12 each and the excellent Josh Niebo added 10 and 7 rebounds.
"I'm very happy about the victory, it's a big victory for us, to get two victories in a double week, it's very important in the playoff battles," Nivo concluded, "we relaxed a bit in the third quarter, we didn't come with the right energy, Bayern is a good team, obviously they'll come back to the game, but We knew how to react properly. We were consistent most of the game, we will try to continue the momentum into the next game."
As mentioned, this was the first time this season, and the first time since the last double week of last season, that Maccabi Tel Aviv managed to win twice in a double week after the previous double week of the season, at the beginning of February, the Yellows recorded two losses for the first time this season.
"Great victory".
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2. The joy in the dressing room at the end was great.
The team was very worried about the game against Bayern, a team that had a lot to play for on the eve of the match, and at halftime with a 13-point lead, the professional team warned the players not to take their foot off the gas.
Indeed, what Maccabi Tel Aviv feared would come true.
Bayern tightened the defense, held the opponent to only 15 points in the third quarter and returned to the game.
What was decisive in the end was the ability of Maccabi Tel Aviv to make runs in a short time.
In the second quarter, the Yellows ran 0:13 on the way to a 16-point lead, with 3 three-pointers by Webb and Blatt, and in the last quarter, in a situation of 65:69 for Bayern, with 8 minutes to go, the defense worked again, and Maccabi Tel Aviv ran for 5 and a half minutes 0:18 on the way to victory.
"It's an amazing statistic, 0:31 in almost 10 minutes cumulatively," said the club at the end of the game, "our defense managed to stop them with two significant runs and this shows both the character of the team but also the improvement in defensive ability, this is all so slandered throughout long stages of This season. We know how to do the job in defense."
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The runs decided.
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3. As mentioned, this was another one of the evenings in which the bench players of Maccabi Tel Aviv become significant.
Although Wade Baldwin, Lorenzo Brown and Josh Niebo recorded a reasonable game in their terms, but the complementary group, especially Hasiel Rivero, Antonios Cleveland and James Webb and also Tamir Blatt in managing the game, were very significant in achieving the victory.
"The ones who won this game were Tamir Blatt and Hasiel Rivero, the second team that came into the game, they were dominant and kept us in the game," explained Baldwin at the end of the match, "Bayern did what it usually does at home. It's an important victory at this stage of the season, and now we Moving on to Valencia, important game next week. We won the game defensively, but our second team with Tamir and Rivero won the game with the pick and roll, they didn't find the solution for them. I scored 15 ugly points today, but I made some important moves at the end, much respect Josh Niebo who took every rebound at the end of the game, Lorenzo controlled the pace and Antonios Cleveland. Everyone is playing well now, it's a big team win."
Cleveland, who for very long periods of the season did not find himself in Oded Ketch's rotation, finds stability and continues to bring his good defensive ability, while this time he also contributes offensively.
The guard-forward registers 7.1 points per game in the last six seasons in the Euroleague.
The bench players stood out.
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4. At the end of the 31st cycle, Maccabi Tel Aviv secured the place in the play-in, and moreover, officially also promised to finish at least in ninth place.
Looking down, the yellows have a game-and-a-half lead over both Virtus Bologna and Basconi, so two wins will secure them seventh place, with one win enough if both lose at least one game until the end of the season.
Are the yellows able to take the sixth place?
Currently, any of the teams ranked 2-6 can find themselves below Maccabi Tel Aviv, assuming that the Yellows win all the games until the end of the season.
If Maccabi Tel Aviv loses one game out of the three, the only ones with a break are Barcelona, Olympiakos and Panathinaikos.
The least realistic team to bypass is Monaco.
The Israeli champions will need the French to lose all their games, but their schedule includes two comfortable home games against Zhelgiris Kovna and Bayern Munich and an away game against Villerban.
Panathinaikos needs to lose two games for Maccabi to pass it, and they have two difficult games on paper against Virtus Bologna and Bayern Munich away.
All the other teams have quite a few mines, and they need to win two games so that Maccabi Tel Aviv does not overtake them if they remain perfect.
Barcelona, who will still meet the Yellows at home, have to play in Munich next week, for Olympiakos the toughest schedule with two away games in Belgrade and a home game against Fenerbahce.
Fener, whose cycle got tangled up with the loss to Milan, will host Anadolu Efes Hamma.
"If we start looking at the other games, we won't be focused on our games," said a senior member of Maccabi Tel Aviv from Munich yesterday, "We have to do our job. If we win three games, we believe that will be enough to take sixth place."
For Olympiakos the hard hazelnut together.
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5. At the same time as the great run, yesterday Maccabi Tel Aviv published the announcement about the compensation outline for the subscribers following the war, an outline which the subscribers need to approve by May 31st.
According to the calculation presented by the group, the subscribers will receive compensation of over 50 percent of the subscription value, in financial compensation, credit for purchasing tickets and subscriptions from the next season and the following season and tickets for the decisive moments of the current season.
Maccabi Tel Aviv estimated the losses that the owners have to cover at 21 million shekels, with the state paying 12 million shekels out of the general losses estimated at 33 million shekels in total.
According to the noise and whispers on social media, the plan, which the club members have worked on quite a bit in recent months, does not go over well with the fans, but the team was not surprised by this and knew that almost every plan that comes out will not go smoothly.
However, the club believes that a large majority of fans will agree to the outline.
The Yellows received approval in principle to bring in a crowd to the game against Valencia this Wednesday in Belgrade, and offered the fans packages for the game when it was estimated that several hundred fans would go out with the team for the upcoming game.
The club hopes that during the deciding stages they will reach several thousand fans in the stands in Belgrade.
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