Milos Teodosic played like his former MVP self as he carried Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade to a 92-98 victory over Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv.
Milos Teodosic turned back the clock to lead Zvezda over Maccabi

Teodosic poured in 27 points to go along with 14 assists, 2 rebounds and 2 steals for a PIR of 40. The 36-year-old tied his career high in assists from January 22, 2015, when he was with CSKA Moscow against Unicaja Malaga. Teodosic also was close to his top index rating of 43 from November 25, 2016, against Baskonia, and his 6 three-pointers made were one off his record of 7 against Brose Bamberg on December 1, 2016.
The 27 points was the most Teodosic scored since he tallied 31 points in the aforementioned game against Bamberg in December 2016. And the Serbian star’s career high in points came a week earlier as he dropped 34 points against Baskonia in the game with his highest PIR as well.
The 2010 EuroLeague MVP was his usual self afterward, not wanting to talk about himself.
“Those guys [Rokas Giedraitis, Mike Tobey, Adam Hanga, Dejan Davidovac] are the reason I was able to be in the position to get 14 assists. This is a team game and I don’t want to talk about myself,” Teodosic said.
Others in the game did the talking for the three-time All-EuroLeague First Teamer.
“He’s a great player, a great player. One of our leaders. He is playing amazing. What can I say,” said Giedratis about Teodosic.
“Milos was amazing today. We know his quality, his talent, his skills. He was excellent scoring and creating for the others. And he deserves a big credit for this win,” said Zvezda coach Ioannis Sfairopoulos.
And Maccabi head coach Oded Kattash added: “Milos did his things. He was controlling it. It was tough. We tried to change coverage on him but he found a way and he had a huge impact on the game.”
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Teodosic was more pleased about the way the team played.
“That’s the way we need to play. Every game somebody needs to step up and take some responsibility and some decisions. That’s the way we need to play to win the next games. This is the way we are going to catch some rhythm and get some wins in a row,” said the 2016 EuroLeague champion.
Zvezda will definitely need more players to carry the load because they cannot expect the 36-year-old Teodosic to do this night in, night out. But it was impressive to see the former MVP show he can still dominate.