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Winner's Cup, semi-final: Without Bryant and Jones, the Yellows want to secure the first final of the season • The Oranges from the Wine City will try to surprise

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  Will ensure a first final this season?

  Photography: 

  Alan Shiver

Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Rishon LeZion are currently competing in the Drive-in Hall as part of the Winner's Cup semi-finals for the right to compete in the final against Hapoel Holon.

The Yellows defeated Hapoel Haifa 74:83 in the quarterfinals after recording twice as many assists (22) from losses (11), took 15 rebounds on offense and won all quarters except the last.

Oz Blazer scored 10 of his 19 points in the first quarter, Othello Hunter added 16 and Ante Žižić 15. On Thursday, the champion suffered its fourth loss in the Euroleague, 75:65 at home to Fenerbahce, despite 23 points from Scotty Wilbkin.

Rishon LeZion passed Maccabi Haifa in the quarterfinals with a 73:91 victory, in which they ran away in a wonderful last quarter (12:26). Noam Dovrat led with 18 points, including four threes without a miss, Isaiah Taylor and Golan Gutt added 17 each. In the Balkan league Delasport, the Oranges are on a 1: 2 balance, with their players leading almost all the statistical tables: Taylor is the king of baskets with 24.3 points per game, Gutt is his deputy with an average of 22.0 and Achilles Mitchell, who was named player of the month in October, is the king of rebounds (11.3 ) And the index (25.7)

Rishon LeZion defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv twice in the top house last year (90:92 at home and 77:86 away), but in the final four the Yellows were on top for the second time in a row, 81:86. The last meeting between the teams in the Winner Basket Cup was in the quarterfinals of 2018 and ended in a 77:86 victory for the team from the city of wine, which went on to win the tournament for the only time in its history.