Barça adds a carat victory in Tel Aviv
MADRID, 10 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Barça moved to the top of the 2022-2023 Euroleague Regular Phase classification after achieving a high-level victory in an always difficult visit to Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv, whom they beat on Thursday 79-86 thanks to a good second half.
Sarunas Jasikevicius’s team continues to take steps forward in their coupling and added their third consecutive win. After getting rid of the Italian Armani Milano and the Turkish Fenerbahce at the Palau Blaugrana, they were also able to defeat another direct rival such as the Macabeo team, whom they beat after a great final quarter to get 5-2.
Until then, the game was very even and with continuous alternatives on the scoreboard. The great success from the outside with which Barça started, with three triples in a row and five in total in the first quarter, three from an inspired Nicolás Laprovittola, only served to go ahead because Maccabi knew how to reply with their weapons.
The locals took advantage of their intensity at the beginning of the second quarter when they managed to take the lead (27-26), but again a triple by Laprovittola was the Blaugrana response, although the aim was disappearing. The irruption of the nationalized Spanish base Lorenzo Brown, with six consecutive points, encouraged ‘La Mano de Elías’, who saw that his team sent to rest after a baseline kick error by the visitors that Colson punished with a triple.
Macccabi threatened to take the game back to their own ground after the game resumed. He placed a dangerous 50-44, but then another ‘bombing’ came from Laprovittola. Two three-pointers by the Argentine, who did not score a two-point basket, launched Barça’s best moment, with a 0-10 run that gave them the initiative again until the end of the quarter.
But the locals came very close to the final ten minutes (61-62), where the figure of Corey Higgins emerged, reminiscent of that of yesteryear with eleven points and good actions for Sarunas Jasikevicius’ men, who finally managed to break the game.
Three triples, two from the shooting guard and another from Tobey, shot the advantage over ten points (62-73). Maccabi, thanks to an unsportsmanlike action by Sanli and a ‘2 1’ by Nebo, warned that he could still be a threat (67-73), but Baldwin’s technique once again gave Barça the necessary air to seal the victory without problems.
–RESULT: MACCABI TEL AVIV, 79 – BARÇA, 86 (43-40, at halftime).
MACCABI PLAYTIKA TEL AVIV: Brown (18), Baldwin IV (16), Colson (6), Poythress (10) y Nebo (9) –quinteto inicial–; Adams (8), Martin (2), Hollins, Dibartolomeo (8), Hilliard (-)
BARÇA: Laprovittola (19), Satoransky (9), Kalinic (5), Tobey (14) and Sanli (4) –starting quintet–; Da Silva (-), Paulí (-), Vesely (6), Abrines (13), Higgins (15), Jokubaitis (1) and Nnaji.
–PARTIALS: 20-23, 23-17, 18-22 and 18-24.
–REFEREES: Ryzhyk, Rocha and Panther. They expelled Baldwin IV for two technicals and eliminated Tobey, Vesely and Sanli for fouls.
–PAVILLION: Menora Mivtachim Arena.
