1.
Usually, when one team throws 15 more shots than its opponent - it wins, and sometimes convincingly.
Hapoel Jerusalem, despite the aforementioned backlog yesterday, got all the conditions to finish the story and move up to the top 16 in the Champions League. Symptoms.
But the Ukrainians have been gearing up aggressively.
"Trap" in pick-and-roll led to many losses of Martin Obasohan and Jaylen Adams (12 of Jerusalem's 22);
The Reds' scenes, Adam Ariel and Kaiser Gates, were closely followed, preventing them from picking up threes;
And on the other side - the Croatian Miro Bilan ground in paint.
Tonight (Thursday) Jerusalem returns for a decisive third game (1: 1 in the series), when all the pressure on it, tired of the corona and the hardships of the journey, and opposite - gets the restraint fresh and nervous.
Jerusalem will have to force a fast pace of play to reach free throws in the transition, and for that it will have to dare to defend with double saves in color.
Halperin.
Must have a fast pace tonight in the arena to rise to the top 16, Photo: Champions League website
2.
One of the clichés that was practiced in our places by arrogant coaches was: "I take the game / league over the phone, even without being on the field."
Nano Ginzburg implemented it in reality.
Less than a year ago, Nano was called to coach the Ukrainian Promitei team, whose owner is the Jewish oligarch Vladimir Dubinsky.
The team was then in seventh place, and Ginzburg conditioned his arrival on the fact that if the team qualified for the playoffs, which then seemed delusional, he would have to leave in favor of the Czech national team's preparations for the pre-Olympic tournament in Canada.
"At first they wanted Serbian assistant coach Vladimir Boujevic to have a headset attached to my line in the Czech Republic, but I explained that it would hurt his management and concentration, so I gave briefings at the end of each quarter."
Indeed - Promitei defeated Zaporizhia 0: 3 and won the championship.
On Tuesday, three hours before the second game in the series, it became clear to Nano Ginzburg that he was positive for the virus.
And again the melody returned: the Serbian Boujevic, who also served as an assistant in Alba, Monaco and the Red Star, stood on the lines, and Nano on the line, in text messages with Ukrainian assistant coach Sergei Alfirov.
"On the phone it's much harder to give advice. I let him run the game as he understood it, but when he had to change something - I wrote."
Tonight, when he is away from his home in Ukraine, Nano will want to complete a double from the phone.
Nano Ginzburg.
Winning games over the phone, Photo: Alan Schieber
3.
Yesterday's game should light a bright red light for Hapoel Jerusalem towards its goals this season.
With only two dribbling producers at the moment, Obasohan and Adams, when the Belgian is unstable even while playing, in case the team passes the Ukrainians safely tonight - it needs to do a re-route calculation.
If Sean Kilpatrick's injury results in a long absence, the team must consider the option of buying Tyros Maggie, the great combo guard who starred last season at Hapoel Holon, and did not find himself in Burgos this year (like quite a few players, like Suleiman Braimo and Steve Zack).
Jerusalem is scheduled to play three games in a week in the Champions League, and in the cup she expects a high hurdle - Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Shlomo team hall. Which we saw in the candle garden about two weeks ago).
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