Red Star basketball players suffered their tenth defeat in the Euroleague this season at the Belgrade "Aleksandar Nikolić" arena.
Maccabi, which is hosting the Euroleague in the Serbian capital for the second year in a row, won in the former Pionir, in a game that it unexpectedly controlled almost from the middle of the first quarter - 85:73.
The Israelis are far from fighting for the play-in or play-offs, and against Red Star they achieved their sixth triumph in probably their best performance of the season.
The "Red and Whites", on the other hand, failed - if it weren't for Teodosić's surge, who scored 12 points in the third period and reduced the deficit to single digits, there would hardly have been any excitement in the last 10 minutes...
There was no tension, and Maccabi was led by Dibartolomeo with 15 and Blat with 14 points. Teodosić had 15 for Red Star, one less than Petrushev. Red Star now has a score of 13-10...
"We were one step behind Maccabi the whole time. We made bad decisions," said Red Star coach Giannis Sferopoulos.
The other representative of the AdmiralBet ABA League in the elite, Partizan, beat Paris (92:86) last night at the Belgrade Arena for their 12th triumph.
Istanbul saw the debacle of Olimpia Milano and the victory of Anadolu Efes - 110:66 in a match in which the Turkish team had a plus 46.
Panathinaikos made a big turnaround, trailing by 20 points in the second quarter in the duel with Zalgiris.
They won 89:76, and the key was the 21:0 run from 57:70 to 78:70, which was started by Kendrick Nunn with a three-pointer at the end of the third quarter. In the last quarter, PAO scored 3 and allowed only six points (all from the free throw line).
Our Duško Ivanovic's Virtus had a 21-point lead in the second quarter, but it wasn't enough to defeat Monaco (86:80), and a crazy match was seen in Madrid on Pablo Las's return to the hall where he became famous.
His Baskonia was close to surprising, leading 89:87, and Mario Hezonja brought the victory to the giants with a three-pointer two tenths of a second before the end - for a final score of 90:89.
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