Fenerbahce comfortably defeated Giannis Sfeiropoulos’ Maccabi Tel Aviv in the second half at the “Ulker Sports Arena” 90-79 for the 15th game of the Euroleague and reached 6-9, leaving the Israelis at 7-8.
Thus, the hosts reached the three consecutive victories and the champions Israel the five consecutive defeats in the 100th match of the Greek coach in the top European inter-club organization and became the second after Zeljko Obradovic.
The match was a derby in the first half, but in the third period Fener reached +19 and kept a difference close to +10 in the fourth.
In this, Booker led with 22 and De Colo with 21 points. For the “people team”, Nanali stood out with 18, Wilbekin with 14 and Evans with 13 points.
Maccabi’s 7-13 became +6 for Fenerbahce with the 14-2 individual score and the +5 of the Turks at the end of the first period, starring Booker.
Hazer’s three-pointer brought the score to 41-35 at the beginning of the second period for Fener and the match became a derby, despite the fact that the “people’s team” had twice as many mistakes as the “Canaries”, so the halftime ended at 42- 37.
An 8-2 individual score by Fenerbahce at the beginning of the third period brought +11 and then +21 with the “outbursts” of Booker and De Colo and 70-51 at the end of the thirty minutes.
In the fourth period, Maccabi counterattacked and reduced to -6, but there Pierre and De Colo made it 79-70 and laid the foundations for the pink card of the Turks.
The quarters: 23-18, 42-37, 70-51, 90-79
Fenerbahce (Djordjevic): Hazer 5 (1), Biberovic, De Colo 21 (8/11 two points, 0/4 three points, 5/6 shots, 3 rebounds, 5 assists), Henry 9 (2 three points, 5 rebounds), Pierre 8 (1 three points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals), Gooduric 9 (2), Veseli 8 (3/9 two points, 2/2 shots, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 blocks), Booker 22 (8/12 two points, 2/4 three points, 6 rebounds), Polonara 8 (2)
MACABI TEL AVIV (Sfeiropoulos): Wilbekin 14 (4/10 3-pointers, 2 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, 6 errors), Evans 13 (1 3-pointer, 7 assists), Caleiro 7 (1), Williams 10 92), Taylor 5, Reynolds 3, Blazer, Nanali 18 (4/7 two points, 2/6 three points, 4/6 shots, 5 rebounds, 2 assists), Zizic 9 (4/12 two points, 11 rebounds)
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