After the dramatic victory over Limoges, the Hapoel Jerusalem coach sounds worried: "We need to be much more aggressive"
Katsch, tonight at the arena
Photography:
Alan Shiver
After quite a few defeats at the beginning of the season, Hapoel Jerusalem took advantage of another disappointing night tonight when they managed to beat Limoges at home in the 2nd round of the Champions League.
Katsch and his trainees fell into a double-digit deficit early on but a great fourth quarter with a lot of enthusiasm eventually settled 75:81 over the French.
Hapoel Jerusalem coach Oded Katash said at the end: "It was a victory of character, what we were missing at the start of the game. We have already talked about it, that we open games non-aggressively. They took advantage of their miss matches and we lost confidence. I think the turning point "There was the entrance of Adi Cohen Saban. He conveyed the right message to everyone and they followed suit. In the second half we recovered."
On the bad ability at the start of the game, Katsch added: "It's a mental issue. We need to start much more aggressively. I think the source of this interest is the confidence we had from last year's team, but we are a different team.
On Tyson Thomas: "If you ask him he knows defensively it was not his best game. He knows it. Basketball is played on both sides. Anyway, offensively we know how talented he is."
Thomas himself said: "They were really hot in the first half, and we knew they would not score like that the whole game. In the second half with us relaxed a bit and then we managed to come back. I am really proud of the way we came back into the game and won, we really needed the win today. I think the energies won the game For us in the end, you saw in the eyes of the players that they are determined to achieve the victory. "