By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
The champs got the 78-67 win over feisty Crvena Zvezda and the key in the battle of the bigs was Sofoklis Shortsanitis. The Greek center had his best game so far in the season (15 p., 5 r.), against Boban Marjanovic (10 p., 8 r.).
This duel proved to be decisive and despite 18 points by Nikola Kalinic, the bad shooting game of Marcus Williams (13 p., 9 as., but 5/16 shots and 6 turnovers) didn’t help the Serbs be really dangerous. On the contrary Brian Randle did damage as usual for Maccabi (16 p., 6/7 s., 8 r., 4 st.), in total five players scored in double digits and despite the fact that Joe Alexander wasn’t used again, Devin Smith had in check the rebounding department with 10.