Franco and Hapoel Tel Aviv do not relax from the verdict: "We will demand the respect we deserve"

The coach re-tweeted "mistakes" refereeing hours after the loss in the cup final, the team promising: "It can not be repeated."

Timur is "crushed", but Rami Cohen responds moderately: "Arriving in Herzliya, we will continue to pursue the title"

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18/02/2022

Friday, 18 February 2022, 07:58

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The celebrations of Bnei Herzliya after winning the State Cup (Photo and editing: Lilach Weiss)

Great disappointment and anger at Hapoel Tel Aviv after the loss last night (Thursday) 87:82 to Bnei Herzliya in the state cup final.

The Reds, returning to the final after 28 years, missed an opportunity for a fifth trophy in history at the end of a dramatic journey.

Hapoel opened the game with a storm, leading by a double-digit difference in the opening, but Herzliya came back towards the halfway mark.

In the third quarter the Reds saw the opponent run away, but a comeback led by captain Bar Timor managed to turn the score around once again.

3 minutes to the end, the Reds led again, 77:79, after a three by Igor Kolshov, but from that moment Herzliya ran 0:10 and won the game.

Jacoben Brown and James Young scored 21 points each for the Reds, with JP Tokoto adding 14.

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At the end of the game, the team was furious at the refereeing of the game, which they claimed was one-sided throughout most of the stages of the match.

Hapoel looked at the offense schedule which at one point showed 6:18 to their detriment, and even noted a number of key moves in which the referees refrained from whistling, including a clear offense committed on James Young 4 minutes behind in the deciding minutes.

The team complained even before the game about the placement of the referees, especially about the placement of referee Nir Myerson, who last year removed Danny Franco, and "he has a long and bad history with us", - according to Hapoel officials.

Franco, team manager Itai Berger and general manager Matan Kaplan walked around the locker room area angry at the basketball association staff, and then until early in the morning the coach continued to tweet videos with refereeing errors from the game. Captain Bar Timor prepared to speak to the referees at the press conference as well Bitten lips.

"There are games you can tolerate from the referees, even if they knock you to the bone. But not in a cup final, and not in that way," said one of Hapoel's men during the night, "We will demand answers. And we will demand that honor. "

In fact, chairman Rami Cohen responded relatively moderately to the issue of refereeing. "We had to kill the game at first.

Not sure the referees liked that we would kill the game at first.

When it comes to a close game it is one action here, one action there.

At 79:79 we had a ball and we lost it, we grabbed a basket.

Herzliya is an excellent team and deserves it.

It could have fallen here or there.

We will continue to pursue the title. "

It will take them a while to recover.

Hapoel Tel Aviv players at the end (Photo: Berni Ardov)

The trophy distribution ceremony was very emotional for the Reds.

While Franco was angry and shouting at the referees and union members, most of the team players had tears in their eyes.

The young Lotan Amsalem was comforted in the arms of his father who was the last to lift a trophy as acting captain, Bar Timor had a hard time stopping the tears and so did the other young players.

"It means they are empathetic and committed, that they really want to. That's why they're sad, they felt the hype and really wanted to, when you really want to and don't succeed so that's what it looks like," said Chairman Cohen.

Timur himself tried to sum up the loss, "I'm disappointed , Finished, crushed.

What can I say now.

There are little things we could not stand.

Little adjustments, little helpers, little things.

We could not stop Onoaku, in the first half we had to go down by a bigger margin, we started the game better.

This is a very big disappointment. "

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