Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated Bayern Munich 111-106 in overtime as the yellow-and-blue couldn’t miss from long distance, hitting twenty 3-pointers to help chalk up the win. With the victory, Oded Katash’s squad improved their record to 13-15 in Euroleague play as they will now turn their attention to the State Cup and a semifinal date against Hapoel Jerusalem on Sunday night at Yad Eliyahu.

Prior to the game, a special ceremony was held in memory of David Federman, one of the Maccabi owner’s who passed away earlier in the week. Maccabi hit their shots from deep as Will Rayman and Tamir Blatt were red hot, Andres Obst was unstoppable from the outside and Niels Giffey scored as well, but points from Roman Sorkin kept the yellow-and-blue ahead at halftime 51-45.

David McCormack and Obst kept scoring, Iffe Lundberg as well a Blatt and Sorkin found points as well, but Dimitrijevic went from deep and was fouled to give the visitors a 1-point lead, however, Brissett went 1/2 from the line to tie the game up at 99-99 send it to overtime. The extra session was all Maccabi as Clark and Hoard scored key baskets and Oshae Brissett added a huge steal and dunk to sew up the victory.

Sorkin scored 21 points, Rayman added 16 points and Hoard recorded a 14 point and 11 rebound double-double in the win while Obst scored 33 points, McCormack put in 17 points and Giffey scored 15 points in the loss.

Maccabi Tel Aviv Head Coach Oded Katash reflected on the win, “Bayern is really tough and a well coached team. Both sides of the court on offense and defense they are difficult and we played almost forty perfect minutes but relaxed for a bit and Andres Obst scored quickly and was really dominant created some panic with our defense. But this was a great game for us and a great win. Both teams hit crazy shots and that was really tough for us and the game could have gone both ways, but we couldn’t gave won without our fans.”

Bayern Munich Head Coach Svetislav Pesic spoke about the contest, “I think both teams deserved to win with 35 3-pointers, it was spectacular and excellent game for the fans and for us. We aren’t Hapoel but we are satisfied with the effort and that we could have won the game. We didn’t have some of our important players in this game but it gave me the opportunity to see how other players were able to help the team off of the bench.”

Jimmy Clark opened the game up from deep, Niels Giffey did the same at the other end, Will Rayman drained one from downtown, Jaylen Hoard dunked while Andres Obst responded, Tamir Blatt went from beyond the arc but so did Giffey as Roman Sorkin and David McCormack traded buckets, while Xavier Rathan-Mayes and John Dibartolomeo did as well as Maccabi took a 26-20 lead after ten minutes of play.

Gur Lavy began the second quarter from the outside and inside, Neno Dimitrijevic and Obst came back with baskets, Rayman went from deep, Justinian Jessup hit an off balance jumper, Lundberg and Sorkin dialled up long distance, Obst went from the outside and inside while Giffey went from deep as did Marcio Santos and Blatt at the other end to give the yellow-and-blue a 51-45 advantage at halftime.

Lundberg hit a jumper to get the second half underway, McCormack nailed a turnaround jumper, Isiaha Mike dunked, Rayman kept hitting from deep as did Obst, Oshae Brissett dunked, Blatt again went from downtown, Dimitrijevic put in a pair of baskets, Jessup and Obst scored as did Blatt, while Hoard hit a deuce but more points from Dimitrijevic gave Svetislav Pesic’s team a 78-74 lead after thirty minutes of action.

Obst led off the fourth quarter with points, Rayman went from beyond the arc, Sorkin scored in the paint, Hoard dunked, Rathan-Mayes and Clark traded triples, Sorkin put in a pair of buckets, Hollatz and Obst went from deep, Dimitrijevic added points, Sorkin drilled one from beyond the arc, but Dimitrijevic was fouled on his 3-pointer to give Bayern a 99-98 lead but Brissett hit the front end of his free throws after being fouled to send the game into overtime knotted up at 99-99.

McCormack and Clark traded baskets to begin the extra session, Hoard dunked, Clark scored off the backboard, Hoard put in points as the shot clock expired, Brissett stripped Obst of the ball and went in for a dunk to close out the victory.