Maccabi Tel Aviv were crushed by Red Star Belgrade 100-78 as Tyson Carter, Jared Butler and Jordan Nwora paced the hosts to 34-15 lead after the opening frame as they rolled to the dominant victory. Withe the loss, the yellow-and-blue’s record dropped to 2-6 on the season and will now ready for Paris on Thursday night in a home away from home game that will be played in Belgrade. Carter scored 24 points, Butler added 21 points and Nwora scored 18 points while Jimmy Clark scored 19 points and Roman Sorkin put in 13 points in the defeat.

Christian Koloko dropped a pair of early baskets for Red Star Belgrade while Chris Jones, Tyson Carter and Jordan Nwora also scored, but Carter kept filing the basket as Jones dished out 7 assists to help the hosts to a 34-15 lead after ten minutes of play. Roman Sorkin tried to pull Maccabi Tel Aviv back into the game, Jared Butler quickly started scoring a will and Carter continued to hit his shots as Ibon Navarro’s squad took a 55-30 advantage into halftime.

Jimmy Clark and Nwora traded baskets to begin the third quarter, Carter kept up his hot hand from the first half, while Butler also scored to keep Red Star in front 78-55 after thirty minutes. Butler continued to pour in the points as the final frame began, Sorkin and Clark tried to trim the lead but Red Star chalked up the convincing win.

Maccabi Head Coach Oded Katash spoke about the loss, “This was a bad game from the get go and embarrassing. There are a lot of criticism about us but we had bad body language and the responsibility is on me and the staff. We greens there from a mental standpoint and we thought after the league game we would be in the game but we just weren’t. We didn’t follow our game plan and in two days form now we need to try and get back to our basketball.”