A surprise in a candle garden.
Hapoel Gilboa / Galil, which recently became a bottom team, tonight (Saturday) defeated the table leader Hapoel Jerusalem 72:78 when it stopped a streak of four losses.
The victory came a lot thanks to the best three-pointers in the league - Michael Brisker. For the second time this season he has scored seven threes (which is also his career high) in the game and is largely responsible for the unexpected result. Gilboa has defeated Jerusalem quite a few times in recent years and today it has continued in the tradition when Jerusalem had its second consecutive league loss.
It all happens in Oded Katash's first game as a professional manager. The day before, Katsch returned to Gilboa in a new position - almost 12 years after taking a championship with her as a coach.
After the all-too-significant victory at Manresa on Thursday, today's Jerusalem was unfocused, very unoccupied and its main man, Retin Obasuhan, got into a weak game.
She came back from the host's run in the opening (10:23), but fell again in the fourth quarter (12:25 to Gilboa).
Jerusalem decided to get to the game in the last quarter and at the same time London Frances the host's coordinator parted ways with the game early by 5 offenses.
Jerusalem made a 0:18 run and went back to a 65:65 tie but then Brisker and the other big standout of the evening - Sasha Kielia Jones - came and stopped the drift so that they achieve a precious victory.
In Jerusalem, center John Agbono made his debut and showed impressive physical data.
There is little doubt that it will be a significant addition of power to Jerusalem in the area of the paint along the way.
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