Wade Baldwin’s muscle injury in the fourth period of Maccabi’s first match against Panathinaikos will ultimately not deprive him of his participation in the second match (25/4).
When the Maccabi was completing her great victory at OAKA against the PanathinaikosThe Wade Baldwin he wasn’t on the floor. Under normal circumstances, there was no way coach Odet Katas would not have the American among the five players he used at the time of the crisis, but his injury had preceded it.
At the beginning of the fourth period, Baldwin, in an attempt to pass Matias Lessor, injured his adductor and left the game. Immediately some limited doubts about the state of his health began, with the logic that two twenty-four hours later the Tel Aviv team had to re-enter the field to face the “greens”.
Now, one day before Game 2 of the series – which, like all the Euroleague Playoffs, is judged on the three wins – the 28-year-old guard, as he informed through his statements in Israel Hayom “I feel fine and I will play on Thursday.” He also explained how “an injury like that can’t possibly stop me at this point in the season.”
The loss to Real in the first leg of the Plyoffs came… early for Baskonia, who struggled without Cima Moneke and coach Dusko Ivanovic is determined to make Nikos Rogavopoulos the star of his game while the Nigerian is struggling with injury.
Regarding the match and the break at the home of Panathinaikos, Baldwin, who (by the way) started his European career (in 2018) from Olympic, stated that “For two months now we have been in great shape as a team and we started the Playoffs with a great win. However, we should not forget that we need two more to qualify for the Final Four”.
And in fact he strongly rang the bell of a danger that always lurks and added how “Last year we were in exactly the same place and in the same conditions against Monaco. We won the first match, but in the end we were eliminated.”
Panathinaikos was defeated 91-87 by Maccabi in the first match of the Euroleague Playoffs. Watch the best phases of the match.
