Hapoel Holon's biggest rival this season is Hapoel Holon last season.
Stefanos Dadas' team has set a new quality standard for the club, especially regarding the game in the European Champions League.
She won many close games, she scored big baskets on the buzzer, she played original and cheeky basketball, created a vibe of fun and enjoyment, and was the balbusta everywhere she went, certainly in the exciting hall.
It's very difficult to compare and it's also unfair, but the current team lacks the talent in the back line that Tyros Maggie and C.J. Harris had, and if we add to that Mauricio Buscalia's lack of flight and conservatism, and seasoned with a minefield game We got the perfect recipe for an embarrassing loss in a disgraceful corner, which will be very difficult to recover from.
Manco rushes to the basket.
18 points, which were not enough, Photo: Oded Karni
Hapoel Holon and its coach lost the game with their own hands.
In Shiktash a nice team but appeared without its three senior players, a boy from the youth (17 years old) and another boy from the boys (15 years old) shared in significant minutes, and its two tall ones had four offenses in the 26th minute.
She played slowly and deliberately, and managed the pace of the game that was comfortable for her.
And Holonia, instead of pressing and running and exhausting the short staff, overcoming the inexperience of the children and untrained ensembles, played slowly and against the Turks, and even when he did not want to, still lowered the ensemble and lost the advantage under the basket she still had, a mistake that culminated in the last ball.
On the minus point, when it was clear that the Turks would go for penetration, Buscalia came up with five guards, as if afraid of a three, without Zack and without Kaiser, and succumbed to Whitehead’s cumbersome penetration.
Everything is upside down.
The fact that Buscalia is at least a gentleman and is not removed from any third game like Dadas, does not take away from the longing for the crazy Greek who felt his team and was also a fan favorite.
Holon fans are currently craving lips in pain and anger, but the credit to the sympathetic coach is running out.
Holon fans in a frenzy.
They deserve more, Photo: Oded Karni
Joe Ragland, even without a comparison to last season's canons, continues to disappoint.
He mostly plays with a sad face, without enthusiasm, is too calculated and too cold, and this time was also non-reset and ruined every minute he was on the field.
His return in place of Misgav at the end is another erroneous act by Buscalia who lost the game.
A coach must see in the eyes of his players how much they want to win.
So Adam Smith really wanted and gave his board game.
But to leave Guy Pnini on the bench until the last minute?
How many mistakes can you make and expect to win?
And lose 73:72 - the result in which Holon won the league championship in 2008?
Double heartache for fans.
Holon has lost the home advantage.
Is there hope for a comeback ?, Photo: Oded Karni
Buscalia has one last chance to save his and his team's season next week in Istanbul.
Holonia will have to get there in a completely different way.
Aggressive, wanting, beating, pressing, crazy.
In any other way, she will end her European season, and feel very bad about herself.
Bad to the point of drastic changes in the staff, and also on the bench.
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