Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv will play KK Zadar in the Final of Goodyear League Final Four. This after beating Olimpija Ljubljana 82-76 in the semi finals.<\/p>\n
The game started with An hour\u2019s delay due to the long break in the first game caused by the violent behavior of the Red Star Belgrade supporters. Zadar won 78-77 with a Meeks three pointer on the buzzer.<\/p>\n
Maccabi led 23-20 at the end of the first quarter but had too many TO and conceded too many fouls. The home team took advantage and took a 44-33 lead. But Maccabi came back in style with a 9-0 run and at the half were only 42-44 down. This trend continued after the break and David Blatt\u2019s team took a 58-49 lead (a run of 25-5). Olimpija did not give up, came back to 58-57 but a three pointer by Lewis made it 64-61 at the end of the third. Sharp, with his fifth three pointer, put Maccabi 74-67 up before fouling out. The yellow & blues led 80-71 before winning by six, their fourth win over Olimpija in five meetings this season. Sharp was top scorer with 18 pts in 83% FG, 3 rbds, 2 stls & 1 assist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-24279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24279"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=24279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}