{"id":476588,"date":"2025-12-30T22:21:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=476588"},"modified":"2025-12-30T22:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:21:31","slug":"zalgiris-flips-the-script-comeback-win-on-the-road-against-the-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/zalgiris-flips-the-script-comeback-win-on-the-road-against-the-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017dalgiris flips the script: comeback win on the road against the leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1493\" data-end=\"1756\"><strong data-start=\"1493\" data-end=\"1534\">Hapoel Tel Aviv-Zalgiris Kaunas 80-93<\/strong>: top scorers <strong data-start=\"1548\" data-end=\"1566\">Chris Jones 18<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1571\" data-end=\"1591\">Elijah Bryant 14<\/strong>; for the visitors <strong data-start=\"1610\" data-end=\"1636\">Nigel Williams-Goss 15<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1641\" data-end=\"1660\">Moses Wright 15<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1661\" data-end=\"1664\" \/>Down double-digits early (25-13), Zalgiris rallies and closes 2025 with a statement victory.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1758\" data-end=\"2000\">Playing in Jerusalem, <strong data-start=\"1780\" data-end=\"1799\">Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong> started fast and built a 25-13 lead by the end of the first quarter. But <strong data-start=\"1873\" data-end=\"1885\">Zalgiris<\/strong> gradually settled in, tightened up on both ends and erased the gap before halftime, going into the break up 40-39.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2002\" data-end=\"2354\">The turning point came right after the restart, as the Lithuanians grabbed control with a strong start to the second half and never let Hapoel fully respond. They had five players in double figures: Williams-Goss and Wright scored 15 apiece, Azuolas Tubelis posted 12 points and eight rebounds, and Sylvain Francisco added 13 points with eight assists.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2356\" data-end=\"2625\">Hapoel couldn\u2019t recover despite Jones\u2019 18 and Bryant\u2019s 14, and the visitors sealed the 93-80 win to end the year on a high. The home side is now <strong data-start=\"2501\" data-end=\"2509\">13-6<\/strong> and will host <strong data-start=\"2524\" data-end=\"2533\">Dubai<\/strong> next, while Zalgiris improves to <strong data-start=\"2567\" data-end=\"2575\">11-8<\/strong> and will open 2026 in <strong data-start=\"2598\" data-end=\"2624\">Bologna against Virtus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2627\" data-end=\"2707\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hapoel Tel Aviv-Zalgiris Kaunas 80-93: top scorers Chris Jones 18 and Elijah Bryant 14; for the visitors Nigel Williams-Goss 15 and Moses Wright 15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":476587,"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":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-476588","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\/2025\/12\/G9ch71ZWkAI6LJR.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476588","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476588"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=476588"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=476588"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=476588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}