FC Bayern Munich Every game from now on will be like this. When you win despite those kinds of mistakes, you should always be happy. Tonight was a really difficult game. I want to congratulate and show my great respect to Coach Sfairopoulos and the whole Maccabi team. They put together a great defensive effort. At a certain moment, it looked like they were dominating both ends of the floor. But I have the luck of having a team that sometimes is unaware of some things is an advantage. Three or four months ago I chose to not try and change my team but to go to the war with them. I don’t have enough practice time and time in general to change too many things. So my team doesn’t want to lose games. I understood from the first quarter that it would be a very difficult game. Sometimes you forget there is an opponent who is very talented and has experience and very good guards. They came here with their back to the wall. That was one of their last chan
Feb 25, 2021 by Euroleague.net Print
The Round 26 clash between FC Bayern Munich and visiting Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv on Thursday night will have major playoff implications. And within that battle will be one of the best confrontations in the paint this week, between a pair of teammates from last season, Bayern center Jalen Reynolds and Maccabi big man Othello Hunter.
The two played together for a dozen games last season after Reynolds joined Maccabi for his Turkish Airlines EuroLeague debut mid-way through the campaign. Reynolds came off the bench behind Hunter to post 5.7 points and an impressive 5.3 rebounds in just 14 minutes per game.
ASVEL survives Bayern late rally to extend winning streak
LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne claimed its fifth win a row by downing visiting FC Bayern 87-79 at the Astroballe on Friday. The hosts built an 18-point advantage midway through the third period, but Bayern never gave up and managed to tie it, 77-77, entering crunch time. Six points and one assist by Norris Cole at that moment allowed ASVEL to stay calm and escape with a valuable win that improves its record to 11-14. Bayern dropped to 15-10 and snapped a three-game winning streak. David Lighty paced ASVEL with 19 points, as Moustapha Fall tallied 15 points and 9 boards, while Cole, Antoine Diot and William Howard contributed 12, 12 and 10 points respectively. Wade Baldwin IV led the visitors with 19 points and 6 assists, followed by Vladimir Lucic, who scored 18 on 3-of-5 three-point shooting, while Jalen Reynolds added 12 points and Dennis Seeley got 11 in a losing effort.
Dec 28, 2020 by Euroleague.net Print
The final action of 2020 takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday, with Round 17 delivering a big batch of exciting festive action to mark the midpoint of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season. Here are some stories to look out for.
Efes, Real in heavyweight showdown
After overcoming FC Barcelona last week, Anadolu Efes Istanbul (8-8) will attempt to continue rising in the standings by facing another Spanish visitor of great repute, Real Madrid (11-5). Efes now sits only one win short of the playoffs positions, while Real has jumped into a share of second place, with Barcelona, after a fine run of victories in five straight and 10 out of its last 11 games. For Efes, a particularly welcome aspect of last week s win was the return to form of key man Shane Larkin, who had 23 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists after totaling just 8 points, 1 rebound and 3 assists over his previous two games. The scori