Without the anchors Wilbkin and Hunter and six capable half players, the champions easily won in the Negev capital too, maintaining a perfect balance • Jake Cohen again excelled with 23 points • On the other side, Amit Simhon managed to stand out with 16 points
Icy floats in the Negev capital. The yellows are perfect
Photo:
Danny Maron
What else can you say about Maccabi Tel Aviv this season? With six and a half players, without the two main anchors (Scottie Wilbkin and Othello Hunter carrying minor injuries) and three days after the severe defeat in Istanbul, the Yellows departed tonight (Sunday) to easily beat Hapoel Beer Sheva 63:80 while maintaining a perfect balance After 12 league cycles.
The champion players know that due to the blow of injury, the quality gap from the other teams is narrowing so other ways to win have to be found, and they do so through the defense. All the rising players retained amazingly and significantly lowered all opponent's offensive stats - 35 percent to 2 (vs. 44.8 seasonally), 31.4 percent to 3 (vs. 34 seasonally), and forced it to 19 losses (vs. 13).
Dorsey on the way to another two, tonight in the capital of the Negev // Photo: Danny Maron
Coach Janis Spropoulos appreciated the great effort his players put in and when the fans called his name he signaled them to thank the players. On Thursday in front of Jelgiris Kaunas, several other players, including purchasing players Arun Jackson and Jaylen Reynolds, are expected to make the load more logical.
On the other hand, HW may have hoped to take advantage of the opposing team's missing roster to get a win that was not in the plans or at least give Fayette to the finish to leave good taste for the run, but at least settle for the good debut of their prestigious procurement player Amit Simchon, who scored 16 Points and left a lot of expectations for the conch hall.
Yuval Sussman with the ball. 5 pts // Photo by Danny Maron
Danny Abadia galloping in the capital of the Negev. 10 points for young talent // Photo: Danny Maron
Hapoel Beer Sheva: Simhon 16 (4-6 for three), Weiss 15 (3-9 for three, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 turnovers), Butler 11 (3-9 for three, 1-6 for two), Petroselli (1-7 For two, 1-8 for three, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals) and Zack 6, Ziss 4, Cohen Saban 3 (4 assists, 4 turnovers), Altit 2.
Maccabi Tel Aviv: Cohen 23 (6-11 for two, 3-4 for three, 7 rebounds, 6 assists), Acey 18 (7-14 from the field, 8 rebounds, 4 rings), Bryant 11 (5-8 for two, 0- 3 for three, 4 turnovers), Dorsey (2-9 from the field, 5-5 from the line, 10 rebounds, 8 assists, 5 turnovers) and losses (3-3 for two, 1-4 for three, 8 rebounds) 10 KW, Sussman 5 (6 assists), Crescent 3.