Already in the fifth round we got the big game of the season.
What we saw yesterday (Monday 9 at Heichal Shlomo has not been seen here for a long time. 19 difference to the Upper Galilee near the end of the first half, a huge turnaround of the host and in the last 40 seconds In a three-pointer, a breathtaking game.
Conclusions after the smoke has dissipated.
The Reds are in crisis with a single victory in 5 games when it is not clear who the real Tel Aviv player is - that of the first half or that of the second and the most important conclusion - there is an impressive team in the Upper Galilee.
The northern team has four consecutive victories that have predicted it will fight for its place in the league.
She has not lost out yet and the last two wins she is making minus a foreign player due to the injury of Kyle Gibson.
This balance and the big turnaround at the end against Danny Franco's team is made by a young team with two Israelis who are in their first season in the senior league.
This is a team in the spirit of its own coach.
Barak Peleg was a team player, intelligent and a fighter.
This is what his team looks like.
Young, hungry, fast, coordinated, with a great division of labor between the actors and good strangers, but not the ones who steal the show.
Barak Peleg was elected coach of the month for October, at this rate he will also be elected coach of the month of November and possibly also coach of the season.
Upper Galilee players celebrate, Photo: Liron Moldovan
Not the Barcelona-led Euroleague teams that lost one after the other to Maccabi Tel Aviv did it.
The winner of the Yellows is Hapoel Holon.
Holon proves the following: Its hall is a fortress, it is an imperfect but very high quality team, it is the top candidate for the Yellows' season and it has a player who is a symbol of ability, sacrifice and professional diversity - Chris Johnson.
Conclusions from Sapropoulos' side - Maccabi is much more vulnerable when it is in the league squad with only five foreigners when it is already its second league loss.
However, without taking away from Holon's victory, Maccabi preferred the game against CSKA Moscow on Thursday over the game in Holon when Sapropoulos did not sign Scotty Wilbkin (who was saved due to a minor injury) and Ante Zizic for the game.
Halperin.
He has the charisma to coach, Photo: Liron Moldovan
3. The appointment of Yotam Halperin at Hapoel Jerusalem would have seemed like a mere blocking of holes.
In fact the professional manager was scheduled to pass the time until a new coach was appointed.
Do not know what will be in the end but Yotam proves he has it.
He has no experience, but he has the most important basic qualities for a coach.
On paper Yotam Halperin has no data to be a coach for the simple reason that to this day he has not coached at all.
Not even a group of children.
Beyond that he generally comes from the position of professional manager.
It turns out that a basketball coach before any tactics and types of defense is the personality, what he transmits and his ability to reach the players show a good foundation for a good coach.
There are many champions in theory who cannot train, certainly not at the highest levels.
Their placenta seems to have these qualities.
You could say this - Yotam is not yet a coach, but he has the appearance of a coach.
This coach's appearance did not suit what he was wearing, it's the quiet, the passon, the sense of control and confidence he has from the crowd.
This is called personality.
Hapoel Jerusalem will play tomorrow (Wednesday) against Polish Stal Ostrov in a game for an entire season.
If Halperin, who has won two league games impressively, saves Jerusalem the European season, he will out of nowhere become a candidate to coach it regularly.
It seems that in the end what will decide is two things - apart from the result tomorrow, Yotam's ambition and what he wants to be when he grows up.
