The reserve team's great campaign continued tonight (Thursday) with a 73:82 quarterfinal victory over Turkey, a game in which Israel dominated throughout the minutes.
Excellent minutes by Eitan Borg in the last quarter together with a good game by Dovrat Varinsky gave Israel the ticket to the semi-finals tonight, where Spain awaits.
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Israel's defense got off to an excellent start and Eliad Tal's three-pointer made it 0:5 for Israel after 3 minutes, but the Turks entered the game a little late and ran 0-13 to take the lead 5:13 after 7 minutes.
Rinsky's 3-pointer brought the team down 10:15 at the end of the first quarter.
Gilad Levy started the second quarter very well and completed Israel's 0-11 run to make it 15:16 for Israel.
Israel continued to play correctly in the attack, 6 consecutive points by Aharoni and another basket by Borg made it 20:27 Israeli with a Turkish timeout with 4 minutes left before the break.
Rinsky's 3-pointer closed a 5-25 run for Israel and the advantage became double digits, after that he added another one but Turkey went on a 0-11 run and closed the first half with a 34:34 tie.
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Gilad Levy in a frenzy, this evening,
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Rinsky continued with the lead at the start of the third quarter and the Valiad Tal quarter was 40:46 for Israel after 4 minutes in the third quarter.
Another 3-pointer by Rinsky increased the team's advantage to 8 points and then Noam Doberat arrived with 7 wonderful consecutive points, establishing a record advantage for the team, 48:60 at the end of the third quarter.
The Turks made sounds of a comeback, but super important threes by Eitan Borg and Noam Dovar maintained the Israeli advantage at the start of the last quarter.
Eitan Borg was great in the attack and Israel's advantage was 61:74 with 3 minutes to go and in fact the victory was guaranteed 73:82.
Gilad Levy in a frenzy, this evening,
Scorers for Israel: Rinsky 17, Dovarat 6 (6 rebounds), Gilad Levy 14 (6 rebounds), Borg 11, Aharoni 10 (6 assists), Eliad Tal 6, Pritsky 3, Dror 2, Zipper 1.
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