Against Maccabi Tel Aviv it did not go well, against Hapoel Tel Aviv the story was different. Hapoel Holon recovered tonight (Tuesday) from the loss in the Winner’s Cup final with a 63:77 victory over the red rival from Tel Aviv, thus returning to victory and rising to a 3: 5 balance in the Premier League. Who knows what.
They scored for Holon: Willie Workman and Maxim de Zhao 15 each (also 8 rebounds each), Tyros Maggie 12 (5 of 10 from the field, 5 turnovers, 5 fouls), Oded Brandwein 12, Guy Pnini 10, Frederic Bourdieu 8, Isaiah Miles 5.
Scored for Hapoel Tel Aviv: JP Tokoto 20 (10 rebounds), Yam Madar 17 (6 assists), Reggie Apshou 12, Gabe York and John Dibbler 5 each, then Adam 3, Jonathan Moore 1. Joaquin Schuchman did not score in -19 minutes.
Despite the lack of staff due to a long injury situation, Stefanos Dadas managed to get back on the winning track. The loss against Maccabi Tel Aviv broke a streak of eight in all competitions, and now his team continues to show that it deserves to be at the top with a fifth consecutive league victory. The Reds, on the other hand, returned to losing after two consecutive victories, one in the league and one in the state cup.
The story in this confrontation was mainly the moods of Holon. The host at the Toto Hall failed to score threes almost the entire first half, with 12 consecutive fouls from the range. Maxim de Zhao sniped twice from outside the arc towards the end of the second quarter and allowed his team to go down to the break with an advantage. Before that, there was a slight confrontation between Guy Pnini and Tyros Maggie, and in general it was possible to notice quite a bit of pressure on the purple-yellow side.
The second half was also messy and quite weak, but Hapoel Tel Aviv did not take advantage of it to escape, despite its 9: 2 run. Holon players recovered in the middle of the third quarter and managed in the last quarter to produce a promising advantage with several threes, These.On the other hand, JP Tokoto’s great ability with a double-double was not enough for the Reds.
the progress of the game
Already after less than a minute Stefanos Dadas called a timeout, as two baskets of the guest made him nervous about his trainees, in a 4-0 situation. After that, the gap was maintained for a few minutes, 9: 5, but from there Holon created a 0:10 run and turned the result around completely. Hapoel Tel Aviv still managed to reduce it a bit to 12:15, but later it barely created good enough shooting situations in the attack and often lost balls, and on the other hand the host hosted the penalty and closed the first quarter in15:23.
The second quarter was very fickle, when despite the advantage, the Holon players showed a lot of pressure, and this was reflected in the series of mistakes and wrong decisions made by the man who is usually trusted – Tyros Maggie. A trash talk between him and Gabe York lowered his confidence, and this led to a narrowing of the difference on the part of the Reds. Guy Pnini scolded Maggie more than once, and the two even clashed on the drop to Dadas’ timeout.
The guest was not interested in any of this, and she managed to produce an 11: 0 run of her own to make the result 27:25. Until that moment, Holon had scored only two points in the quarter, when it also did not record a three in the game (12 offenses). But then came Maxim de Zhao, who sewed two threes and got his team back on track. In doing so she managed to finish the first half with an advantage 32:37.
The third quarter was much weaker most of the time. In the first two minutes mostly fouls and losses were recorded, but no points at all. Hapoel Tel Aviv came up from the break sharper and created a 9: 2 run on the way to 44:42. 48:53.
Holon’s momentum has continued in the last ten minutes, much thanks to three more threes that have completely forgotten the 12 misses from opening the game in that range. Dadas’ team went up to a 56:65 advantage, and from there Hapoel Tel Aviv no longer had a chance to return when the gap only swelled over time. 63:77.
