Hapoel Tel Aviv hosts the Italian Taranto tonight (Wednesday) as part of the fourth round of the Eurocup.
The Reds, who return to a home game for the first time after three weeks, come to the game with a record of two wins and one loss, while the opponent has lost all of its games in Europe so far, but in a league ranked at the top.
The one who is not available to Danny Franco is center Chris Horton, one of Hapoel Tel Aviv's standouts last month, who suffered a blow to his shoulder in the game against Kiryat Ata City on Saturday night.
The opponent is guided by the local Emmanuel Molin, who was for years Ettore Messina's right-hand man.
The 62-year-old coach has coached Taranto consecutively since 2017, and has three exes of the Premier League in his squad - Trent Lockett, who played for Hapoel Jerusalem in 2019/20 until he was injured, forward Darion Atkins, who starred for Hapoel Holon, and guard-forward Drew Crawford, who played for Bnei Herzliya and Maccabi Rishon Lezion and married to an Israeli.
A step towards the next step?
Brown (Photo: Barney Ardov)
the progress of the game
1st quarter:
Hapoel Tel Aviv started with Jacob Brown, Xavier Manford, Jordan McRae, Tomer Ginat and Jaylen Hurd.
A malfunction in the game clock - for the third time at the Drive-In in two months - caused the game to be stopped in a few seconds, and after a few minutes the match was resumed.
Manford and Horde scored 10:13, Lockett excelled on the other hand, but the Reds reached the line again and again, JP Tokoto came off the bench well and scored
18:28
at the end of the first quarter.
Open well.
Manford (Photo: Bernie Ardov)
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