Because Madrid played as a team, with Campazzo leading five players in double-digit efficiency ratings, and because, despite not having great shooting percentages, they found alternatives to keep scoring. They won the rebound battle, as they did in the previous three games against Hapoel Tel Aviv, and that often leads to victory. A significant portion of their offense came from 16 offensive rebounds (special mention to Okeke, who grabbed 6), and they played a very secure game, committing just 8 turnovers. Itoudis’ team has the ability to bounce back at any moment, relying on the individual quality of their players.<\/p>\n
The importance of a 2-0 lead
Success from beyond the arc (42.3%), with contributions from Blakeney, and the growth of Oturu (20 points and 17 rebounds) were their biggest threats. But Hapoel has many more, starting with Micic. The support of the fans will be crucial, as on Wednesday they once again turned the Movistar Arena into a venue for great European nights despite the reduced capacity. History shows that the four times Real Madrid has gone 2-0 in a playoff, they have won the third game as well and advanced to the Final Four (Maccabi 2012-13 and 2021-22, Panathinaikos 2018-19, and Baskonia 2023-24). Tonight, the second clash between the madridistas and the Israelis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Because Madrid played as a team, with Campazzo leading five players in double-digit efficiency ratings, and because, despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-419223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419223","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=419223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}