By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
Maccabi Tel Aviv came back from 23 points down to win the Israeli League Cup, avenging a 105–87 league defeat to their city rivals eight days earlier. Hapoel were without Vasilije Micić, who missed the final with a groin injury.
Hapoel led 44–36 at halftime and held Maccabi scoreless for the first seven minutes of the third quarter to go up 59–36. Maccabi closed the game on a 50–16 run, outscoring Hapoel 35–13 in the fourth quarter.
Jimmy Clark III led Maccabi with 24 points and seven assists. Keaton Wallace and Daniel Theis scored 16 apiece, Jaylen Hoard added 12 and Yam Madar had 10. Eugene German was Hapoel’s only double-digit scorer with 26 points, while Antonio Blakeney and Khadeen Carrington added eight each.
Maccabi marked the win on social media with a nod to the club’s trophy tally: “Trophy #126 and counting.”
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