Huge win in… dramatic fashion for Maccabi Tel Aviv! The Oded Katas team prevailed 79-78 Real Madrid after a march in Belgrade, having him as a hero Saben Leewho scored the winning basket almost in stoppage time and gave his team the pink card. Somehow, the Israelis moved up to 3-4 and the Spanish fell to the same record.
For Maccabi, Lee played a great match, who in addition to the winning basket, scored 19 points and proved why the Israelis made a complete “loss” to acquire him from Manisa. 17 points and 7 assists for Rokas Yokubaitis, while Roman Sorkin had 13 points and Hasiel Rivero had 10.
From Real’s point of view, Facundo Campacho was amazing with 16 points, 2 rebounds, 7 assists and 2 steals, while Hezonia he was the leading scorer with 18 points, collected 5 rebounds and made 2 steals. He dominated both rackets Eddie Tavares with 11 points, 7 rebounds and 3 blocks.
???? SABEN LEE OFFRE LA VICTOIRE AU MACCABI TEL-AVIV FACE AU REAL MADRID ! @MaccabiTLVBC x @EuroLeague #SKWEEKLive pic.twitter.com/q2SYBpJzWb
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The match
After a balanced first quarter, h Maccabi got away with +7 (36-29) midway through the third period. Somewhere there, they took action Facundo Campacho and Mario Hezoniawho ran a 14-0 individual score of their own and brought the “queen” to +7 in the first half (36-43).
In the second part, Maccabi got a reaction again and managed to tie the game (49-49) with protagonists Roman Sorkin and Saben Lee. However, Real quickly regained control of the game and managed to break away with +9 before expiration of the period (55-64).
The derby continued in the last quarter. OR Maccabi it showed its “teeth” at Real and with the leaders of the Horde and Li he managed to come back and reduce it to -4 (62-66), but every time the Israelis got close, the Madrids escaped again (64-72).
With them Yokohamaites and Rivero to take the “baton”, the hosts made their final counterattack and reduced to a point 36 seconds before the end (77-78). Real lost the attack, with Maccabi finding a difficult basket with Shaben Lee 1 tenth of a second before the end (79-78) and taking the victory.
The quarters: 21-23, 36-43, 55-64, 79-78.
Detailed match statistics here.
Source: Sport Fm
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