"The team is missing, we are constantly in the player market" Israel today

Hapoel Jerusalem landed yesterday (Monday) after the first three victories of the Yotam Halperin era when they lost 85:79 to Bnei Herzliya.

"It was our least good game since I was appointed," Yotam Halperin said at the end of the game.

"First of all at the level of aggressiveness. We lost the game already in the first half. When you go to an away game you do not want things to happen like they happened to us and we will have to fix it."

"Basketball is a game that is played for 40 minutes, and we did not do enough this time," said the disappointed Retin Obasuhan.

"We need to be aware of that and know that it's not enough to play just two quarters, you can not win like that and it's a bad feeling."

Willie Workman added: "It's hard to put a finger on what didn't work. We just did not play good basketball and we will have to get back on the winning track already in the next game."

The team will accelerate the search for reinforcement to the front line in place of Thun Maker as well as for another player to the back line.

"The team is missing and we are on the market all the time, once there is something relevant of course we will try to get stronger," Halperin said in his hat as the sporting director.

At the same time, the team organizes a training game against Hapoel Holon during the national team break so that all the players who do not travel to the various national teams will keep fit and not get out of step.

Apart from players who are on Guy Goodes' lists for the Israeli team and may be invited to open training next week (Itai Segev, Adam Ariel and Amit Gershon), Anthony Bennett (Canada) and Retin Obasohan (Belgium) will also join their teams after the game against Hapoel Haifa on Saturday.