1 Guy Goodes asked for adrenaline?
In his first two games he received adrenaline of an entire season.
And on Wednesday he already has another game this season.
A new coach is usually given a hundred days of grace.
Guy barely got three.
But there is nothing like deciding games that have no way back, to shorten the learning process on your new team.
And the feature of Goodes that allowed him to win this game as well, after a lag of 17, just like in Turkey, is his flexibility, which is the agility of flexibility.
In English it is called agile, and this term is used a lot in software development processes, to explain the ability to respond quickly to changes, and in fact, to understand that change is a constant state of life, and you should expect it, embrace it, and respond to it as soon as it happens, without getting stuck on the original program.
It requires confidence, faith, experience.
And all of these have Goods galore.
Adam Smith enters the basket, tonight in the quarterfinals, Photo: Oded Karni
2 Goodes did come from home with an interesting game plan, and for the first time this season in Holon raised the top five as possible, with Zack and Kaiser together.
He also snuggled for moments on the big days as an assistant coach at Maccabi Tel Aviv, showcasing David Blatt's famous replacement defense, as well as the ability to roll almost the entire squad to the field in the first quarter, to feel who came to play.
And so Holon ended the quarter at 19:11, and a feeling of complete control.
But after an amazing second quarter of Haifa (30: 8), Holon went down to the break with a lag of 14, much thanks to the availability of Elad Hussein, and all the plans went to waste.
And again, the best feature of Goodes is the feel of the game, the FEEL of his players, and he left the locker room with something completely different, for another 30 minutes of a digging battle, at the end of which he achieved the desired result.
Hapoel Holon celebrates promotion to the quarterfinals, tonight, Photo: Oded Karni
3 To say it was a typical cup game would be a cliché, and like any good cliché, it is accurate.
Both teams reached the finish line on crutches, with dismantled players, a bench that was too short and a lack of healthy air.
In both extensions all the programs go to waste anyway, and the coaches have to manage mainly the level of oxygen in the blood and the amount of lactic acid in the legs.
Manco came out with five fouls, Ragland played 40 minutes and fell off his feet, Chris Johnson ran into a concrete wall named Vargas, and even though he has a porch-sized shoulder, it fell like Gindi’s porch.
Vargas in action, tonight in the quarterfinals of the Cup, Photo: Oded Karni
Misgav suffocated from Haifa's aggressiveness, Pnini was completely out, Haifa did 'hack the sack' on the high of Holon, and Kaiser mentions Dennis Rodman only in behavior and tattoos, Goodes has two players left to trust: Adam Smith, who looked bad when he arrived, but gradually becomes Be the important guard of Holon, and save her already second game.
And Freddie Bourdieu, the John Dee of Holonia, who Goodes may have lowered in rotation at first, but at the end of the game gave him a big hug of gratitude.
A rare player of total dedication to the team, 100 percent on defense and responsibility on offense, zero ego.
Take pictures and teach.
4 And this time too, as in Turkey, Fortuna worked to Goodes' credit.
And Amit Sharaf, the loyal assistant, who at the last timeout in a 4-point lead shouted, "Do not make Paul," and perhaps saved the game for his new coach.
And if you think about it from the eyes of Goodes, you might appreciate the work of the coach more.
For three years he was very much associated with the Orange Club.
And must immediately turn purple, and his whole being has already changed.
Manco leads a ball.
30 minutes of excavations, Photo: Oded Karni
And now he has barely two days to prepare for next season's game.
Holon will open a field hospital to train Johnson, loosen Ragland's legs, encourage Zack, and at the same time recruit all the fans to stand in the hall.
A week ago, Holon's head was on the ground, and now it's on the roof of the hall.
Congratulations to the management who may not have been really available, and took the time with the change of coaches, but at least she did a brave act, with a forced but precise timing, which until now, has paid off big for her.
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