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Telling numbers: Maccabi's energy made the difference

Telling numbers: Maccabi's energy made the difference

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22 March 20224 Mins read

Telling numbers: Maccabi's energy made the difference

Its overall energy – pushed even higher by a 9,300-strong crowd of home fans – made the difference as Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv cruised to a 75-58 victory against AX Armani Exchange Milan.

Regular Season

Round 31 of 34

game AX Armani Exchange Milan vs Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv

Group Regular Season

22 March 2022, 19:05

Regular Season

22 March 2022, 19:05

Regular Season

Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv

MTA

AX Armani Exchange Milan

AXM

Final Score

Maccabi forced Milan to pick up as many as 19 turnovers, a new season-high for head coach Ettore Messina's team. The hosts also managed to prevent the visitors from circulating the ball, limiting it to just 9 assists, a season-low and tied for Milan's fifth-worst mark in competition history.

By comparison, Maccabi finished the game with 17 assists and 11 turnovers. That means that Maccabi dished 1.55 assists -- and limited Milan to just 0.47 -- per turnover. That marks Milan's lowest assist-to-turnover ratio in over a decade, since November 3, 2011, in a 54-62 loss against Anadolu Efes Istanbul.

Milan playmaker Sergio Rodriguez finished the game with zero assists for the first time this season, and the team's other playmaker, Malcolm Delaney, could dish only 1.