After the first away victory in the Euroleague against Milan from the bottom of the table, the Yellows will try tonight (21:30) to continue with the momentum on Italian soil in the match in the 14th round against Virtus Bologna.
Maccabi Tel Aviv is still missing the injured Wade Baldwin and Alex Poithers who underwent hand surgery this week, but with the great ability of Lorenzo Brown, Roman Sorkin and Jarl Martin, Oded Ketch’s team will try to improve to a balance of eight wins against six losses. On the Italian side, which recorded five wins from the start of the season and is in 14th place in the Euroleague, you can find names like Milos Theodosic, Daniel Hackett and Toko Shanglia who recently returned from a long injury.
the progress of the game
Quarter 1:
Bologna made it to the top five with Isiah Cordinije, Mohamed Jeita, Ife Lundberg, Toko Shenglia and Daniel Hackett. Ketch went up with Lorenzo Brown, Jaylen Adams, Jake Cohen, Josh Niebo and Bonzie Colson. Brown was the first to score, Ludenberg equalized and Cohen’s triple put the yellows up 2:5 after two and a quarter minutes. Hackett with five consecutive points brought Bologna back to 7:7, and after almost three minutes without a field goal, the substitute Martin enjoyed an assist from DiBartolomeu and the Yellows took the lead towards the last five minutes. DiBartolomeu sniped from outside the arc and then Teodosic came on from the Italian bench three minutes to the end of the quarter, and in response Ketch put Hollins in instead of Coulson. The Serbian in his first attempt scored a three-pointer, in a later position Adams lost and Ismail Baku punished with a basket and a foul so that Bologna with a run of 0:6 took the first lead of the game, 14:15 with two minutes remaining. The Italian run reached 0:10, but Brown is outside the arc. At the end of the quarter 16:20 for Virtus.
Quarter 2:
In the next round of the league, Maccabi Tel Aviv will host Hapoel Gilboa/Galil (Monday, 21:00) and then go to Berlin for a meeting against Alba (Thursday, 21:00) of Yuval Zussman and Tamir Blatt