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Barça does not lift its head. As much as Nikola Mirotic insisted, especially at the last minute, the team that trains Svetislav Pesic fit against the Maccabi their third consecutive defeat in the Euroleague, the sixth in what we have been in season. The Maccabi punished the lack of aim of the Catalans at decisive moments and their defensive warmth to build and secure their victory. [92-85: Narration and statistics]

The first quarter of the visitors, in the end, was only a mirage, no matter how much they tried to make up the score in the final stretch of the game, recovering in part their best offensive galas. His reaction, in this case, came too late. It was no use to the Barcelona players that the Montenegrin Hispanic finished the match with 22 points in his locker and 30 valuation.

Barça encountered a hard nut to crack in Tel Aviv. As much as Pesic's were able to leave at the end of the first quarter with a clear advantage of seven points on the scoreboard (20-27), which could have been more if Delaney had scored one of the three free throws he had last Now, the Israeli team made it very clear that it was going to make things very complicated for them. Very complicated. It didn't help that Cory Higgins , well supported by Davis, signed a great first period. The undisputed protagonist of the first part was going to be a Scottie Wilbekin who would have his best squire in Yovel Zoosman in the first minutes of the duel.

Not only did Wilbekin keep his team in the first period, but he was absolutely decisive in the reaction that led the Ionnis Sfairopoulos team to leave for half-time with seven points ahead (48-41). Jake Cohen and Tyler Dorsey joined the great performance of Wilbekin, who forced a decisive unsportsmanlike Brandon Davies to reinstall the bad feelings in the body of the Catalans.

Barça sought reaction after the break. And he found it, in large part, because Mirotic continued to show his best ways in the offensive aspect since Ante Tomic managed to find again and again the best position to score. Both were decisive so that those of Pesic managed to take the equalizer to the marker (56-56). Although, in this case, only to see how three consecutive triples of the Maccabi put the rope back to the neck in the final stretch of the third quarter (65-56). The scoring statistics of those of Pesic were again well below the level to which they have accustomed their fans so well. And, on a defensive level, they were not precisely planted either. A panorama with which the final disadvantage to reach the last and definitive period (65-57) amanated with being excessively heavy.

Especially since Dorsey, as soon as he started, hit the Barça players again with two consecutive three-pointers to place the Maccabi with 12 points of advantage in the light (71-59) and further multiply the doubts of those of Pesic. Kuric, virtually unpublished, and Mirotic and Pierre Oriola, however, answered with two pitches from beyond the three-point line to hit the table and cut the advantage of their opponent to place it in an apparently affordable three points (71-68). Sfairopoulos, with a downtime, not only stopped the bleeding, but also laid the groundwork for the Israeli team to re-open the gap to place ten points ahead on the scoreboard four minutes to the end of the duel. A final stretch in which an unsportsmanlike Mirotic somewhat deranged by the future of the game threatened to pass sentence for the Maccabi. The Montenegrin Hispanic, however, loaded the team on his shoulder at the end only to see how Wilbekin also did not shake his pulse to practically kill the game with a new triple in a match that would end with the victory of the Israeli team

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