{"id":179733,"date":"2025-12-11T22:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/179733\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:59:06","slug":"lonnie-walker-and-roman-sorkin-lead-maccabi-past-asvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/179733\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonnie Walker and Roman Sorkin lead Maccabi past ASVEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may not have been Maccabi\u2019s most polished performance, but it was an important step forward. The victory was the team\u2019s second in a row, lifting its record to 5\u201310 and renewing hope for a playoff push.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s a great win for us and we\u2019re going to continue to get better,\u201d Walker said. \u201cThe way we\u2019ve been playing these last four or five games has been really good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ASVEL opened strong behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/nando-de-colo\/002100\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nando De Colo<\/a>, who sparked his team to a 14\u20137 start. Maccabi responded with a Walker-led 12\u20130 run, but the momentum shifted repeatedly. The game was tied at halftime and saw eight lead changes in the third quarter before Maccabi finally created separation. Even after blowing a 14-point second-quarter cushion, Walker remained unfazed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all about runs,\u201d he explained. \u201cYou\u2019re gonna have a run, they\u2019re gonna have a run. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/glynn-watson\/014013\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Glynn) Watson<\/a> had no more than 3 points in the first half \u2014 he finished with 21. The game\u2019s all about give and take. They started making shots, but we stayed persistent. We had some mental fortitude and held on for the win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may not have been Maccabi\u2019s most polished performance, but it was an important step forward. The victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-179733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}