No extension and no defenses: Ketch's team beat the Purple in a shootout • Both teams connected for 29 threes • Game man: Jacob Brown

• Paladin vs. Foster. Game of Run & Gunn

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227 common points. 29 joint threes and two groups fired indiscriminately, until Hapoel Jerusalem exited Hapoel Holon's difficult hall with victory 112: 115 - without extension.

A real drama unfolded at noon Friday, after Hapoel Jerusalem lost an 18-point lead. First it was Holon's game, with Malik Foster leading her (finishing with 37 points) to 1:23. In the second quarter came the huge explosion of Hapoel Jerusalem. Her offensive talent was unstoppable and she scored 44 points, triumphing in a 21st difference and never stitching threes - 12 in 50%.

James Paladin finished the first half with 6 3-pointers from 8 attempts, ending with a 50:64 Jerusalem lead. In the third quarter, Jerusalem's play continued and in the 26th minute it reached its peak - 64:82. In that quarter, Suleiman stood out in Reimu, who did a good job under the baskets.

However, Holon did not raise his hands and gradually lowered the lead to a single digit, and for seven minutes ended enjoying the exclusion of Shalvin Mack from Jerusalem (after committing a technical foul and unsportsmanlike offense).

Holon managed to lower the minus to 112: 110, 10 seconds into the end, after three accurate penalty shots by Foster, but the game's end man, Jacob Brown (27 points), scored twice from the penalty and a last-minute attempt Manny's Harris couldn't save Holon.