With a three-pointer by Baron in 9 ”, Xenit Pascual’s Zenit defeated in St. Petersburg 73-71 Maccabi Tel Aviv by Giannis Sfeiropoulos for the 17th game of the Euroleague and reached 11-6, remaining in the top five and leaving the Israelis 7-10 and out of the privileged octave and with seven consecutive defeats.
The Russians reached +13 in the third period, having +10 in the previous period, they went to +10 again in the fourth period, but there with a partial 1-10 Maccabi reduced 70-69 and was ahead 70-71 in 17 ”, but Baron 9’΄ came before the end to give the victory to the hosts.
For the winners, Poiothres stood out with 14, Baron with 12 and Kulagin, Gudaitis with 10 points. For the “team of the people”, Reynolds stood out with 24 points, while Williams helped significantly with 14 points.
In the first period, Zenit had the solutions from the periphery and took full advantage of the mistakes of the Israelis. Lloyd was the protagonist for Pascual’s team during this period of the match and brought it 18-6, due to the successful defense of the Catalan coach, so we reached +10 at the end of the first period.
In the second period, Zenit played a good defense in the attacking trump cards of Sfeiropoulos and in Wilbeckin, Poithres did what he wanted and we reached +15 at the end of the half.
In the third period, Maccabi put pressure on the defense and Reynolds reached -11. He reduced to -6 for the “team of the people” and the thirty minutes ended at +8 for Zenit.
In the fourth period, we had a real derby and at 67-57 the 1-10 individual score brought 70-69 and Wilbekin 70-71 at 17 ”, but Baron’s three-pointer brought the 11th pink card for the Russians.
THE TEN MINUTES: 25-10, 41-26, 55-47, 73-71
ZENIT (Pascual):Lloyd 7 (1 three points, 6 assists), Karachev 5 (1), Kulagin 10 (2), Baron 12 (3), Kuzminskas, Zumbkov 9 (3), Poithres 14 (5/5 two points), Ponitska 4, Frankamp 2 , Goodaitis 10 (5/6 two points)
MACABI TEL AVIV (Sfeiropoulos): Wilbekin 8 (2 three-pointers, 8 assists), Evans 6, Kaloiaro, Williams 14 (1), Taylor 2, Reynolds 24 (10/16 two points, 11 rebounds), Dibartolomeo, Blazer, Cohen 5 (1), Nanali 7 ), Ίζiιi 5 5, Ziv
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