Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 14:22:55 05/02/04
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On May 02, 2004 at 10:23:04, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On May 01, 2004 at 16:55:12, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>Maccabi Tel-Aviv just won the European basketball championship final with an >>unbelievable victory of 118:74. I'm so happy that nothing can make me angry now, >>not even the rantings of someone like you! > >118 - 74 ?? > >What kind of championship is it when the second best team gets blown out by 40 >points? It was amazing. The opponent team, Skipper Bolognia from Italy, had defeated Maccabi in one of the games in the preliminary rounds with 15 successful 3-pointers. So Maccabi was prepared for a very tough match. But just as the game started, Maccabi got a 10 point advantage in a few minutes. Maccabi's defense was astounding, there was nothing Skipper could do. In the last quarter when Maccabi was leading with 40 point gap, the crowd (10,000) started singing the national anthem as the game continued! In the history of European basketball championship, never the gap in the final game was more than 16 points. Yesterday Maccabi won with 44 points gap. Interestingly, Maccabi was almost knocked out in the preliminary round. In the last game, when Maccabi needed a victory to reach the final-four, it faced Zalgiris from Lithuania, with their legendary Arvydas Sabonis. Less than 10 seconds to the end of the game, Zalgiris was leading with 6 points. Maccabi attacked and scored 3 points. Zalgiris attacked and after Maccabi's foul and got two free throws 3 seconds to the end of the game. First throw.. out. Second throw.. out again. 2 seconds left to the end of the game... a long pass and Maccabi scores 3 points, and draws the game (and easily wins in extra time). If this is not a miracle, then I don't know what a miracle is :) >I don't think even LA-NJ two years ago was that lopsided. > >anthony
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