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"One whistle! One whistle!": The frustrating night of Stefanos Dadas and Hapoel Holon
The unconventional basketball was about to land a knockout on Maccabi Tel Aviv, and the Purples were in the middle of an almost perfect performance on the way to the cup final, but the reality hit them: the coach was furious with the referees, the players were left without air and around the corner.
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Stefanos Dadas
Hapoel Holon
Ahrela Weisberg
Friday, 12 February 2021, 09:05
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Maccabi Tel Aviv celebrates in the locker room the illegal immigration to the Cup final (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
6:12 minutes before the end of legal time, last night (Thursday) at Drive In, Hapoel Holon threatened to smash the glass ceiling and escape to a 20-point advantage over Maccabi Tel Aviv.
How close was she to there?
Isaiah Miles went up to a free-kick that could have set up 50:70, and missed.
And from that moment on, with or without a connection, everything turned upside down.
"Out of the 125 minutes we had this season against Maccabi, we dominated the game for 90 minutes," Holon coach Stefanos Dadas doubted and grumbled.
Indeed, he was on his way to chess against Yannis Sapropoulos.
His small ball teams, the combinations of guards and forwards that can bomb at any given second across the arc, left his compatriot helpless.
Then, as mentioned, the picture was reversed;
Why?
Depends on who you ask.
From the moment of his three-pointer, everything turned upside down.
Isaiah Miles (Photo: Danny Maron)
In the 6:12 minutes that elapsed from Holon's peak advantage to the buzzer that heralded the arrival of overtime, without Sapropoulos having even a single timeout left for medicine, the Blues flew to 5:22.
And on the way to stopping the opponent on five points in six minutes, only two offenses were burned into their duty;
One of them on the rebound.
Dadas was upset at the end.
"One call! One call!"
- "One whistle! One whistle!", He roared as he descended from the parquet, through the dressing room to the hurried exit from the hall, even before completing his media duties.
He kicked things, and couldn't even talk to his players before they broke up.
Only in the parking lot, after lengthy calming talks by Holon officials, led by CEO Roi Deborah, did the Greek relent and return inside to answer reporters' questions. He guarded Passon, and other than implicit bites at the whistleblowers, did not attack them directly; but when the microphones lay down, The cameras and recording devices, had a hard time hiding the emotional turmoil he was experiencing.
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Tough claims to judge.
Dads (Photo: Danny Maron)
Even in the overtime itself, the people of Holon had serious complaints about Safi Shemesh, Omar Estron and Noam Gordon;
The final chord was probably the most jarring of all - when Tyros Maggie squeezed an offense with a three-point shot, 85:82 behind, and received only two free throws.
"For me, nothing has changed in the game in the last minutes," said Dads. "Maccabi players clung to us and kept aggressive, even though they were over the limit of four offenses, and when they did not whistle, they felt stronger. One whistle, which would send our player to the line, would take them Step back. "
But aside from the refereeing, the Holons came out frustrated mainly because of the knockout they landed on their opponent throughout most of the game;
Their unconventional method of play proved itself, and Sapropolos played into the hands of the opponent and found it difficult to find solutions for the opposing teams.
Even when he tried to put up an inverted five at the end of the third quarter, with his two chins together (Othello Hunter and Ante Žižić) in front of the forwards in yellow, the effect was minor.
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On Sunday they meet again.
Pnini and Cloiaro (Photo: Danny Maron)
And after all that, Maccabi Tel Aviv won, and survived a historic slump: if it does not win the trophy this season, it will be the first time in history that it has failed in this factory for four consecutive years;
Sapropoulos could become the first coach at the club to lose three trophies in a row.
In the meantime, at least until the finals, they are on the safe side of history.
Holon fans mobilized this week and donated NIS 300,000 to the team to fund the fine it will incur on a fifth foreign registration, thus allowing it to appear on a wider roster for the important knockout game.
Reality slapped them in the face;
It was on this evening that the team had to go up without Richard Howell, who is once again moving away from full training, while Yogev Ohayon and Niv Misgav are not at all together, Oded Brandwin gets three seconds throughout the entire game, and Willie Workman and Freddie Bourdon see 32 and 35 minutes off the bench respectively.
Apart from them, Dadas went for a rotation of only six players, with five of them getting between 31 and 39 minutes, and there is no doubt that fatigue and exhaustion also played a role in the moments of comeback and deciding.
On Sunday, there will be another meeting between the two teams, this time in the Premier League, and it is likely that the teams - at least the one on the Tel Aviv side - will be different.
In a week and a half, Holon will resume its journey in the Balkan League, which this time will also include two away games in Bulgaria, and at the beginning of next month will open its appearances in the top 16 of the Champions League.
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