{"id":386057,"date":"2024-05-02T15:20:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=386057"},"modified":"2024-05-02T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:20:40","slug":"euroleague-game-3-mvp-josh-nebo-maccabi-playtika-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-game-3-mvp-josh-nebo-maccabi-playtika-tel-aviv\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague Game 3 MVP: Josh Nebo, Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Big man\u00a0Josh Nebo<\/a>\u00a0did big-man things on Tuesday night in leading Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv to a dramatic 85-83 victory over Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens and thus helping his team to a 2-1 series lead while also earning MVP of the Round honors for Game 3 of the EuroLeague Playoffs.<\/p>\n

The high-flying center shined, tying his career-high with 22 points, making 10-of-13 two-point shots and 2-of-5 free throws. Those 10 two-pointers made, 8 of which were dunks, tied a Maccabi playoff record. Nebo also grabbed 9 rebounds, including 4 on the offensive end. He also had 2 steals, 1 block and drew 5 fouls, accumulating a PIR of 31, tied for the highest among all players in Game 3, earning Nebo his third MVP honor this season.<\/p>\n

Also with a 31 PIR in Game 3 was Nebo’s counterpart\u00a0Mathias Lessort<\/a>\u00a0of Panathinaikos, who collected 14 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 block, while drawing an all-time EuroLeague Playoffs record 13 fouls.<\/p>\n

Next on the list of standout players for Game 3 of the playoffs was\u00a0Alpha Diallo<\/a>\u00a0of AS Monaco with a PIR of 28. Diallo came within a single point of his career-high in scoring with 23 points and also corralled 7 rebounds in an 89-78 loss at Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul.<\/p>\n

A trio of Real Madrid players all had PIRs of 26 –\u00a0Facu Campazzo<\/a>,\u00a0Guerschon Yabusele<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Walter Tavares<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 in a 98-102 series-clinching road win at Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz. Campazzo compiled 13 points and 8 assists, Yabusele scored 23 and grabbed 7 boards and Tavares amassed 12 points, 13 rebounds and 4 blocks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Individual highs: Thomas Walkup, Olympiacos, 4 steals<\/h4>\n

Points<\/p>\n

In his final game of the season, Baskonia\u2019s Markus Howard went out with a bang, scoring 29 points, which led all players in Game 3.<\/p>\n

Rebounds<\/p>\n

Real Madrid\u2019s Tavares topped the Game 3 rebounding charts with 13 boards. He also led all players in Game 3 with 4 blocked shots.<\/p>\n

Assists<\/p>\n

Game 3\u2019s assists leader was Codi Miller-McIntyre of Baskonia with 11.<\/p>\n

Steals<\/p>\n

Thomas Walkup of Olympiacos had 4 steals, which were more than any other player in Game 3 action.<\/p>\n

Double-doubles<\/p>\n

The lone double-doubles in Game 3 were produced by Tavares and Miller-McIntyre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Josh Nebo, center for Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv, is the MVP of Game 3 of the EuroLeague Playoffs: decisive in the win against Panathinaikos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":386056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-386057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/87b3e7c9-c902-4319-883d-2b8b2a9d1273.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386057"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=386057"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=386057"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=386057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}