Summary and points of Real Madrid-Maccabi Tel Aviv (98-65), belonging to Euroleague 2022/2023

The white team ended its streak of two consecutive defeats with an exhibition from start to finish

This triumph allows him to rise to the top of the Euroleague standings

Supported by excellent collective work and a festival of triples, Real Madrid destroyed Maccabi Tel Aviv (98-65) this Friday in an exhibition from start to finish which allows them to end their two-game losing streak and rise to the top of the Euroleague standings, where they tie with four other teams after their first win in 2023.

Everything worked out for Chus Mateo’s players in the European basketball classic that closed the first phase of the competition. The defense worked perfectly and the attack dismasted an opponent who did not know how to stop the white machine. Up to seven players hit from the perimeter, with Dzanan Musa and Petr Cornelie, with four triples, and Guerschon Yabusele and Fabien Causeur, with 3, as the most successful.

With Tavares intimidating and adding another five blocks to his statisticsand greater fluidity in all their attacks, Real Madrid began more connected thanks to their outside success, which contrasted with the successive errors in the shot of an opponent who, led by a discreet Lorenzo Brown, could not find solutions to his jam and I saw how he was left behind on the scoreboard from the first bars of the crash.

With five points as meager baggage in more than eight minutes, a very poor series in field goals and an alarming 0/11 in triples, the Maccabees went to the first break with much to improve seeing themselves fifteen down at the first exchange after a triple finish by Frenchman Petr Cornelie, who put together a great performance (22-7, min 10).

Two new hits from the perimeter in the first minute of the second act, signed by Cornelie himself and Sergio Rodríguez, they finished turning on the alarms in the visiting benchwho was forced to stop the match when he found himself down twenty at 7:30 from the break after a new success from the line of 6.75 by Dzanan Musa (33-13).

Under the baton of Sergio Rodríguez, Real Madrid liked each other and gave a show. The exchange of baskets that followed benefited their interests and the gap continued to grow to 27 points that were achieved after two new outside hits from the Balkan forward (50-23). Only Maccabi’s final reaction, with a 1-11 run in just over two minutes, allowed them to equalize the second act and reach the break alive (51-34, min 20).

The success of Musa and Cornelie, the good collective work and the difference in the tripleswith an excellent 9/18 for the whites against the 2/15 that weighed down the Israelis, allowed Chus Mateo’s players to get the game on track in the first 20 minutes.

The madridistas returned to the court with the same determination. Two more outside knocks from Causeur and Williams-Goss and a spectacular dunk from Yabusele, which he accompanied with the twelfth triple on the next play, gave Chus Mateo’s team back a lead of more than twenty points. Opposite Lorenzo Brown added with droppers, although far from the best version of him this season and the one he showed in the Eurobasket defending the shirt of the Spanish team.

Then came another three blocks from Tavares and triples from all positions. Real Madrid was also taking a walk in the third chapter of a clash without history due to the difference, which reached 31 points in that phase and ended up in an overwhelming 78-49 when it reached the final ten minutes.

The last quarter had no history because the whites did not lower the piston and continued destroying an unrecognizable Maccabi, who arrived with four wins in the last five days and leaves Madrid with a serious correction. The advantages reached 35 points thanks to a team in a state of grace that fell just one triple away from its Euroleague record.