State Cup semifinals: Although they recently lost a height in the league with losses to Hapoel Haifa and Ness Ziona, the Purples are looking to surprise the champion
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Alan Shiver
There is a significant gap between them in the table, but according to many, the second semi-final brings together the two best teams in the country today.
This will be the third game between them this season and the previous two were decided only in the last seconds: in the third round, Holon won 76:79, while in the Winner Basket Cup final, Maccabi Tel Aviv made a comeback led by Omri Caspi and won the first title of the season with an 84:86 victory.
After an impressive winning streak, Holon has recently lost some height in the league with losses to Hapoel Haifa and Ness Ziona, but it reaches the semi-finals with high morale after a beautiful victory in Eilat.
And no less important, for the first time this season in the local frames she arrives with all five of her foreigners.
The Purple-Yellows have not visited the final since winning in 2018 and are coming hungry to continue their historic season at another factory.
Maccabi Tel Aviv comes in top form after four impressive victories with differences of 16, 35, 26 and 28 points in the league, where in all of them it presented a great defense, escaped to an early double-digit gap and shelled a large number of threes in high percentages (15 of 25 this week Omri Caspi has not returned to the squad yet, but the first to sign up is TJ Klein who may make his debut against the ex. Chris Jones, Tyler Dorsey and Dragan Bender have not signed up for the squad. The Yellows have not won the trophy since 2017 and are eager to return the title To the closet for the 45th time in their history.