“Brake” Fener and Maccabi remained in the hunt for the top eight!

THE Maccabi it’s here again!

Despite their bad start to the match, the “people’s team” picked up speed from the second quarter and after a great derby, prevailed 78-74 her Fenerbahcein Tel Aviv.

At 14-13 now the Israelis, while on the other hand he stopped the streak of three victories for his team Dimitris Itoudiswhich subsided to 16-10.

Leader for Maccabi o Brown with 21 points, with Baldwin adding 15p.

For the Turkish champions, the first scorers were Hayes and Pierre with 16 p. and 15 p. respectively. THE You’re in a basket had 8 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals, while a negative debut for Tyler Dorseywho didn’t score in the 4:36 he played, while he also made a mistake.

The match

Very strong start from Fenerbahce, who went 3-15 in the first five minutes. Maccabi then turned it up a notch, with Itoudis’ team holding a double-digit lead (15-25) but Brown trailing 17-25 at the end of the first period.

In the second quarter, it was the home team’s turn to come out stronger and with the protagonists of DiBartolomeo and Sorkin, they first equalized (31-31) and then took the lead (34-33), at 17′. From that point on, Maccabi had the momentum and with Brown entering the… equation, they went to the locker room with +4 (43-39).

With a 4-0 run, the Katas team entered the second half for +8 (47-39), which they maintained (52-44), until the 23rd minute. Then came Fener’s reaction and with a 7-0 run they came close to the point (52-51), in the 25th minute. Since then, the tempo of the match dropped, with the visitors tied (56-56), but Maccabi going on a 5-0 run in the last minute and DiBartolomeo’s buzzer beater three-pointer closing the third period at +5 (61- 56).

Maccabi took advantage of Fenerbahce’s failure at the beginning of the fourth quarter and with individual scores of 8-2 went to +11 (69-58), at 35′. Then, Itoudis’ team reacted with Guduric, Kalathis and Bielica, bringing the match equal (71-71), in the 38th minute. With a basket and a foul by Baldwin, the home team “unblocked”, with Gudurich reducing the score to a point (74-73), in the 39th minute. Mistakes followed on both sides, with Brown going 2/2 from the line to make it +3 (76-73) with 21 minutes to go. In the final seconds, Maccabi held on and took the victory with a final score of 78-74.

The quarters: 17-25, 43-39, 61-56, 78-74

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