Hapoel Tel Aviv downed Real Madrid 102-96 as Elijah Bryant scored with ease in the final frame to break a 75-75 deadlock and notch the win to sweep the Euroleague Double Week. Dimitrios Itoudis’s team jumped out to a 63-43 lead at the half with Bruno Caboclo, Zach Leday and Vasilije Micic leading he way, but Theo Maledon, Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot and Walter Tavares all scored to knot the game up by the end of the third quarter. However, Bryant put the Reds on his back in the fourth quarter to lead his side to the victory.

Bryant scored 22 points, 13 rebounds and 7 assists, Micic added 22 points while Leday Caboclo both scored 15 points in the win. Maledon scored 26 points, Cabaret put in 21 points and Tavares scored 14 points in the loss.

Hapoel Tel Aviv Head Coach Dimitrios Itoudis talked about the win, “It looks like we beat Real Madrid in the same game twice. We started the game well both offensively and defensively and and we wanted to not get outscored on their transition as they have the tools to run. In the second half and specifically in the third quoter we lost the entire lead. We talked about this being a character game and not crack at the timeout. We analyzed what was going wrong and changed the approach of the attack. This win was important and the way it happened.”

Real Madrid Head Coach Pedro Martinez spoke about the defeat, “Two different halves in this game. The first half we saw bad defense and a slow offense with no rhythm. It was a very bad half. But in the second half with aggressiveness we were able to come back and even take the lead, but we had to rotate and that didn’t work. Hapoel deserved to win the game.”

Elijah Bryant went for a pair from deep and Zach Leday scored with ease for Hapoel Tel Aviv, Chuma Okeke found points for Real Madrid but Bruno Caboclo’s second triple of the first quarter gave the Reds a 29-20 lead after ten minutes of play. Vasilije Micic began finding the bottom of the basket, Caboclo hit another pair from deep, Dan Oturu scored on the inside while Tomas Satoransky and Micic scored yet again as Dimitrios Itoudi’s team took a 63-43 advantage into halftime.

Bryant and Leday scored for Hapoel while Nick Smith, Walter Tavares, Theo Maledon and Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot countered for Real to cut down the lead to just single digits to begin the third quarter. Smith kept scoring, Cabarrot drilled home multiple 3-pointers and Tavares also found points to knot the game up at 75-75 after thirty minutes of action.

Micic began the final frame with a bucket, Antonio Blakeney also scored, Caboclo went from deep, Elijah Braynt scored at will, Maledon and Cabaret tried to keep Pedro Martinez’s team in the game but Bryant kept finding the bucket to close out the game.