{"id":78603,"date":"2023-02-01T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T12:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=78603"},"modified":"2023-02-01T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T12:44:10","slug":"quarters-maccabi-tel-aviv-falls-to-barcelona-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/quarters-maccabi-tel-aviv-falls-to-barcelona-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarters: Maccabi Tel Aviv falls to Barcelona – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday night, Maccabi Tel Aviv (9th place, 11-11) suffered a 78-83 loss to Barcelona (3rd place, 14-8) at Palau Blaugrana \u2013 yet another road defeat for the Yellow & Blue as their away record now standing at 2-10. Cory Higgins (15 points, 2 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 block), Rokas Jokubaitis (14 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist), Nikola Miroti\u0107 (11 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal and 1 block) and Jan Vesely (10 points, 1 rebound and 1 steal) led the scoring for the hosts, while Jalen Adams (20 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists), Wade Baldwin IV (15 points, 2 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals and 1 block), Jarell Martin (11 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal) and Darrun Hilliard (11 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist) hit the scoreboard hard for the visitors.<\/p>\n

Here are a few of my reflections from the round 21 clash.
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Wade Baldwin – Photo Credit: Maccabi Tel Aviv<\/p><\/div>
\nThe Good: The backcourt\u2019s third quarter<\/strong>
\nAt points in the first half, it looked like it was going to be a long night for Maccabi \u2013 with three and a half minutes left in the half, Bar\u00e7a went up 39-28 courtesy of a 3-point play from Tomas Satoransky (9 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists). However, a resilient mini fightback at the end of the half, including through 3s to Adams and then Hilliard at the buzzer, helped Maccabi to claw back to 37-41 at half time.<\/p>\n

The Maccabi players then came out of the locker room a different team looking hungrier than their opponents, scoring the first 7 points of the quarter through a 3-pointer from Martin and field goals to Bonzie Colson (7 points, 1 rebound and 3 steals) and Roman Sorkin (7 points, 4 rebounds and 1 block).
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Jalen Adams – Photo Credit: Maccabi Tel Aviv<\/p><\/div>
\nIn the third quarter alone, Baldwin scored 11 points and had 4 assists, while Adams scored 4 points and had 1 assist. In fact, Adams\u2019s 2 made free-throws with 37 seconds left in the frame gave Maccabi a commanding 67-57 lead over the more-fancied Barcelona.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can compete with anybody in this league,\u201d Adams, who also had an equal game-high performance index rating of 20, said of the positives from the game. \u201cWe know that Barcelona is one of the top teams in this league. We were in that game all the way through, so we\u2019ve just got to build on that and keep our confidence high.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bar\u00e7a finished the quarter strongly through a 3 from Mike Tobey (5 points and 3 rebounds) and free-throws to Jokubaitis, reducing Maccabi\u2019s lead to 5 points at the final break. While Maccabi did end up winning the quarter 30-21, it wasn\u2019t enough to get the W.
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Nikola Mirotic – Photo Credit: Barcelona Basket<\/p><\/div>
\nThe Bad: The bigs<\/strong>
\nBarcelona proved much too strong for Maccabi under the basket last night, leading the way under the basket with 37 total rebounds to 30. It\u2019s more troubling for Maccabi when you look at the bigs: for Bar\u00e7a, Miroti\u0107, Vesely, Tobey and Sertac Sanli (3 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist) combined for 29 points and 20 rebounds in 79 minutes; for Maccabi, Josh Nebo (1 point and 3 rebounds), Suleiman Braimoh (4 points and 1 rebound), Sorkin and Martin combined for 23 points and 14 rebounds in 82 minutes.<\/p>\n

Of course, one way of explaining this is the EuroLeague experience \u2013 comparing the two quartet\u2019s, Bar\u00e7a\u2019s combined have accumulated 695 EuroLeague games (Tobey with the least of the four with 72 games) compared to Maccabi\u2019s 115 (Nebo with the most out of the four with 50 games).
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Oded Katash – Photo Credit: Dov Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nOf experience and the significance, Katash said: \u201cI think that Barcelona is real quality team with quality that\u2019s almost endless \u2013 they have 12 players with a lot of experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maccabi has improved throughout the season, however as we get to the pointy end of the season, unfortunately they can only add actual game experience one game at a time. With Alex Poythress out injured, the other bigs will need to continue to improve if Maccabi is going to make a push for the playoffs.
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Rokas Jokubaitis – Photo Credit: Barcelona Basket<\/p><\/div>
\nThe Ugly: Last-quarter meltdown<\/strong>
\nThree and a half minutes into the last quarter, Martin scored a basket to put Maccabi up 74-68, with Yellow & Blue fans hopeful of the team capturing a scarce road victory. What followed was a span of nearly seven minutes during which Maccabi didn\u2019t score and Bar\u00e7a went on a 14-0 run courtesy of multiple baskets to Vesely, Miroti\u0107 and Higgins, effectively shutting down Maccabi\u2019s hopes of coming away with a win.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know, the fourth quarter, that was unbelievable,\u201d a clearly frustrated Katash said to the cameras immediately after the conclusion of the game. \u201cI mean, we put in the right amount of effort, but that\u2019s tough to win like that. That\u2019s really tough, really tough to win like that.\u201d
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Tomas Satoransky – Photo Credit: Barcelona Basket<\/p><\/div>
\nKatash clarified his frustration in the press conference: \u201cWe fought also in the fourth quarter, but I think after 8-9 minutes it was like 8-2 in fouls and it\u2019s tough to win like that. I\u2019m proud of my guys, but that was tough. Obviously they have more experience than us, but that shouldn\u2019t be the way. It\u2019s tough to win here. We have to give them the credit \u2013 they did exactly what they\u2019re supposed to do \u2013 but we should get some more help or respect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Captain John DiBartolomeo acknowledged that the team needs to finish games better: \u201cWe struggled in that fourth quarter. I think that\u2019s something that we need to learn, how to close games out on the road in a tough environment in close games. It\u2019s a challenge for us, but that\u2019s the hump we need to get over to be the team we want to be.\u201d
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Xabi Lopez-Arostegui – Photo Credit: Dov Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nUp Next: Valencia<\/strong>
\nMaccabi now takes the short trip to Valencia (8th place, 12-10) to complete the double week tomorrow night (21:30 IST \/ 14:30 EST). Valencia will be coming in confident after an 82-73 home win last night against Bayern Munich (14th place, 9-13) and a winning streak of 5 games. While they are sitting ahead of Maccabi by one win, if they are tied at the end of the season, they need to win and make up for 16 points by which they lost to Maccabi earlier in the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe EuroLeague this year really is special \u2013 everything is so tight and every win can make a big difference,\u201d Katash said of how close the standings are this season. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of clich\u00e9, but you have to look at the next game \u2013 focus on the next game\u2026 We will fight as long as we have the chance to do it, starting from Thursday \u2013 it\u2019s a big one for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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