The crew in yellow and blue controlled the game enroute of an impressive home win to keep their playoffs dreams alive. Tyus (20P, 6R and 1B) led the scorers in yellow
Coach Sfairopoulos’ starting five: Wilbekin, Zoosman, Caloiaro, O’Bryant
and Black. Scottie was the first to score in the game sparking the yellow offense to an early 10:2 lead. Eriksson scored for the visitors but Maccabi reacted strong with a 7:0 run enroute of a 17:4 lead. Oliver scored for Gran Canaria trying to bring his team closer but Black connected with Roll to finish the first quarter with a thunderous exclamation mark (21:9).Both teams traded blows at the beginning of the second quarter with the yellows keeping their
double digit lead (27:15). Tyus connected with Pargo to complete the three point play as the crew in yellow and blue increased their lead to 34:18. Strawberry and Balcerowski scored back to back threes forcing coach Sfairopoulos to call for a timeout with the scoreboard showing 41:28. Scottie and Johnny stepped into the game and immediately made their presence felt on both ends of the floor making it 48:30 at halftime.Oliver started the second half scoring from deep but Maccabi reacted with a 7:0 run to make it 55:33. Jefferson and Strawberry scored back to back threes to try and spark a comeback but Zoosman and Johnny kept them at bay (58:39). Deni Avdija scored four points to keep Maccabi ahead with a comfort
able lead but Hannah had the final say in the third quarter as his team trails 64:45.Tyus and Pargo increased Maccabi’s lead in the fourth to 68:45. For every basket Gran Canaria scored the squad of coach Sfairopoulos reacted with a run as they kept increasing their lead making it 80:49 from which the visitors couldn’t recover as Maccabi secures the 90:55 home win improving their record to 14:15.
