Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv was so dominant early that it could cruise in the second half and still beat CSKA Moscow 84-75.
Telling numbers: Wilbekin becomes 11th player with 400 threes
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The old adage states that you must play hard for all 40 minutes. Maccabi cut corners on Thursday and still managed to come out ahead against CSKA. After being outscored 2-11 in the game’s first 3 and a half minutes, the Israeli champs roared. For the remainder of the first half, Maccabi scored 47 points and CSKA had just 15. Even more jaw dropping, the difference in PIR over that stretch was 66-3.
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Maccabi was all over the place in that dominant run. It shot 8 for 13 from downtown (61.5%) with Scottie Wilbekin going 4 for 5 and John DiBartolomeo 3 for 2. The hosts were perfect in 11 trips to the free throw line, led by Keenan Evans 7. Five Maccabi players combined to block 6 shots. Ante Zizic was the only player with multiple blocks. Derrick Williams’s 3 steals were more than CSKA as a team (2) in the first half. The discrepancy was so great that CSKA’s hole proved to big to climb out of, despite an Iffe Lundberg-led fourth-quarter rally.
Wilbekin finished the game with 5 three-pointers, but it was his first that was most noteworthy as it made him the 11th player in competition history to bury 400 triples in his career. Next in Wilbekin’s sights is a spot in the career top 10. He needs 17 more threes to tie Gianluca Basile for 10th place with 421.
