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With the opening of the top and bottom home games, one issue has been almost definitively determined, and there are three fronts that will centralize the matter.
Hapoel Haifa's loss to Bnei Herzliya actually determined who would have a home advantage in the playoff quarterfinals.
The first four are fortified: Hapoel Jerusalem, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Holon and Bnei Herzliya. What is left for them, and this is the first front, are internal position struggles.
The second thing is who will be the two teams that will reach the playoffs from the lower house.
Hapoel Tel Aviv, and Ness Ziona and Gilboa / Galil will compete for the next place. The third front: who will be the relegation team. The last of the season. The Oranges need a half-miracle. The strengthening of BS, Antonio Blakney (premiere value in the loss to Hapoel Tel Aviv), looks very impressive. Looks like a player who will make a difference.
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Haydn Dalton signed for Hapoel Holon at the end of January.
For almost two and a half months he played only three games in the league and in Europe.
Also because of an injury, but also because of the difficulty of finding him a place on the roster.
Five foreigners can be shared in the league, and Holon has seven of them.
In the Champions League, Holon has a surplus foreigner.
The 25-year-old Dalton has seen this season get lost, having already played for two teams (French Bourgeois and Spanish Burgos) and suffered an injury.
Still, coach Guy Goodes found a place in the squad against Maccabi Tel Aviv - and he made a big profit. Suddenly there is another significant player who will fix him a lot of positive headaches in choosing the squad later on. Good outside the arc, who actually showed his abilities in a big game against Maccabi Tel Aviv (showing 24 points, of which 7 threes at 54 percent).
Hapoel Tel Aviv players, Photo: Oded Karni
Holon's great firepower has increased even more.
Now his coach will have to do eighths in the air so he can play, because Holon has other foreigners who can hardly be given up.
The bonus for the show against Maccabi Tel Aviv will most likely be a place in tonight's squad against Strasbourg, in a game that could lift Holon to the Final Four of the Champions League.
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be as big a star as you are, play hundreds of games in the NBA, give performances at the highest levels: it will not guarantee you anything.
James Ennis came to Hapoel Haifa during the season with a lot of aura around him.
The so-called - a big name, a player who is supposed to bounce the club up a notch.
Practice: This bet has failed in the meantime.
It does not always matter what your qualities are.
When you come to another basketball, to another country, and when you first experience the European basketball style - it's a risk, certainly when it happens during the season.
Risk of not being able to adapt and integrate.
James Ennis, Photo: Maur Elkelsi
This is what happens with anise.
In the first game against Hapoel Jerusalem, he disappointed, but scored a three that decided the game.
In the second game against Hapoel Tel Aviv he did not find himself. Here came three games he did not play due to injury. In two of them, the man who replaced him (Scotty James) came back to play and was excellent. On Sunday again Ennis inside and James outside. Haifa is defeated by Bnei Herzliya, and Anis ends a bad game with 8 turnovers, it seems that the forward does not find his place, and it is doubtful if that will happen.
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