Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 15:39:34 05/02/04
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On May 02, 2004 at 17:22:55, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >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 :) 6 points in 10 seconds is pretty rare. I seem to remember hearing about Reggie Miller doing something like that, once. I'm glad to see basketball is taking off in Europe. I don't particularly like American football or baseball - they are just too slow paced for me. The only problem I have with basketball is that height is so important, and I'm only 6 feet tall. anthony >>I don't think even LA-NJ two years ago was that lopsided. >> >>anthony
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