Maccabi Tel Aviv cruised to a 106-71 win over ALBA Berlin to break their 3-game losing streak and move to 14-13 in Euroleague play with seven games to go in the regular season. The yellow-and-blue rattled off an 11-0 run midway through the first quarter to take the lead for good and never look back as they notched the easy victory.

James Webb led the way with 17 points, Wade Baldwin added 16 points and Josh Nebo chipped in with 15 points in the win. Johannes Theimann scored 14 points and Sterling Brown added 11 points in the loss.

“I liked the way we played and competed,” Katash said. “We have to play like this every game until the end of the season if we want to make the playoffs. We have to play like especially defensively. This It was a high tempo game and most of the game we did a good job defensively. Offensively, we shared the ball well which I liked. Before the break we had a crazy schedule and we played almost every two days so we couldn’t practice much which effected our spacing and we turned over the ball a lot.”

Wade Baldwin spoke about the victory, “We just did a little bit of recalibration, we know what’s in front of us and we have a tough March. It’s important to put together a good month and get into a playoff position. We are one of the better teams offensively and the issue has been how we defended the ball and here we held a fast break team to 71 points on their home court.”

James Webb talked about the victory as well, “It was all about playing well. This is the home stretch and we have to put our best foot forward and we executed well. Everybody was locked in and we were able to pick each other up, played on the ball and they rebounded well but we played well on the defensive end. We can take confidence from this game and Zalgiris is a great team. We have to play as we did in this game both offensively and defensively.”

Bonzie Colson scored a trio of baskets, Wade Baldwin went from deep, Lorenzo Brown added a layup and Josh Nebo dunked early on for Maccabi Tel Aviv who grabbed a 13-7 lead midway through the first quarter. Baldwin jammed off of transition, Martin Hermansson drained a corner 3-pointer for ALBA, Colson once again found the bottom of the basket, Jasiel Rivero notched his first points of the game, James Webb came back with points as did Rivero to give the yellow-and-blue a 27-15 lead after ten minutes of play.

Antonius Cleveland dropped a monster dunk, John Dibartolomeo drilled home a triple, while Webb scored from the inside and outside to get the second quarter underway int a hurry, Brown put in a 3-point play while Johannes Theimann and Sterling Brown scored on the other side of the court tried to dent the lead but Oded Katash’s team stayed in front 42-21 with five minutes left in the first half. Jake Cohen, Nebo and Brown kept filling the basket, Malte Delow and Matteo Spagnolo responded but Webb scored a pair of baskets to send Maccabi into halftime leading 57-38.

Nebo and Theimann traded baskets to begin the third quarter, Baldwin drained a pair of shots, Nebo dunked as the pair again scored easy baskets to bump the lead up to over 30-points as Brown nailed a deep 3-pointer, Sterling Brown tried to cut the gap down but Cleveland came off the baseline for a dunk and Blatt drilled home two triples to keep Maccabi ahead 87-56 after thirty minutes of action.

Rivero got the fourth quarter off and running with a deuce, Yanni Wetzell answered, Webb found points inside and outside, Nebo scored as well while Cleveland put in another basket to close out the 35-point win