ONE System | 28/01/2021 17:43
Jerome Mainsey (Itzik Blanitzky)
After beating Portuguese Sporting Lisbon 81:86 two days ago in the opening match of the European Cup, Urbani Ness Ziona recorded tonight (Thursday) 73:90 over Hungarian Solnoki Olai in a bubble in Wloclawek, Poland in the second round of the factory’s 3rd round. Following Sporting’s loss to Polish side Ostrov, the Oranges secured their place in the quarterfinals, when tomorrow at 16:00 they will play against the Poles in a battle for first place at home.
Brad Greenberg: “We had a hard time stopping them at first, they scored in their first 7 moves of the game and we couldn’t slow them down at all. .
Raviv Lemond: “I think we started to play more aggressively on defense in the second half and it helped us turn the game around. We were able to cover the weak points that the Hungarians took advantage of in the first half, we improved on offense and played together. All this gave us positive momentum until the end.”
Jerome Myancy: “We started slowly, Solnoki started with energy and higher intensity than us – but luckily we had a great contribution from the bench that helped us change the energy of the game. We fought, raised the level on defense – and managed to come out with the win.”
It started very badly for Brad Greenberg’s oranges, who fell 13 points behind in the first quarter, but Ness Ziona managed to come back and towards the end of the third quarter even opened a double-digit advantage, culminating in a 17 point lead towards the end of the game. The Oranges for the quarterfinals.
Those who excelled in the game were Jerome Mainsey (9 rebounds) and Wayne Selden, who scored 17 points each, while also Patrick Miller, who provided 15 points, 8 assists and 6 rebounds, Tal Dan who contributed 15 points, 6 assists and 4 Rebounds and Lior Carrera, who added 13 points and 5 rebounds, scored and scored in double digits.
