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A terrible misjudgment will forget a wonderful cycle of basketball Israel today

2023-01-10T07:43:17.803Z


Hapoel Upper Galilee with three foreigners in the squad, proves that Israelis can win games • Ariel Beit Lahemi takes a big risk and leaves a team in a bad situation in favor of a team in a bad situation • But what will be remembered from the last cycle in the Premier League in basketball, is the refereeing error in the game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Haifa • Avi Segal concludes


In the past season in the Premier League, we saw Bnei Herzliya continue to kill the big ones, Galil Aleion continue to impress and Hapoel Haifa almost surprise Maccabi Tel Aviv, but what we will remember from him is actually a misjudgment. This will probably be the biggest misjudgment of the season, a record that will be difficult to break .

The truth is, both on second thought and from re-watching the events, it is difficult to understand the mistake made by the referees of the match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Haifa.

Everyone who watched the game knew in real time that the referees (Ofer Manheim, Elad Leibovich and Harel Kidron) were wrong and did what they were not allowed to do.

Everyone, except them.

Reconstruction of the events:

The referees went to the monitor while announcing that they want to decide on the identity of the outside ball.

The constitution states that after this announcement they can only check what they declared and nothing else.

In practice, they came back with a decision that Will Rayman's block on Roman Sorkin was illegal, and it was a basket for Maccabi Tel Aviv.

On paper, the decision is correct, but as mentioned, they were not allowed to check it.

The judges' decision is simply unacceptable, not to mention unfathomable.

It's not a split second decision they have to make.

This is not a foul, or a three-pointer, but a distortion of the constitution at a critical time of the game.

What makes the matter worse is that it is three judges, and there was not a single tzaddik who remembered the basic lesson in the constitution.

How is it that what everyone knows, a basic rule, suddenly disappears from the minds of the judges.

The team wanted to correct the illegal block it had missed, and responded with a doubly big mistake.

A very unnecessary mistake.

Rayman fails to stop Sorkin.

The judges were wrong, photo: Oded Karni

The Israeli college is back

Hapoel Galil Alyion is in a great period with 4 wins from the last 5 games.

It already has one title - the most Israeli team in the league.

Galil Alyon in the current edition continues the values ​​of the legendary team from the past when it put Yahava on the Israeli player.

While most of the league plays with five foreigners, Galil recently played with only 3, after Jaylen Hudson left.

Not only did it bother her, she even upgraded.

In a league with many foreigners, it is a unique phenomenon.

See for example what happened this season to Gilboa/Galil, a team that was an Israeli model, moved to 5 foreigners and locked the table.

In the last games, Galil gave the Israelis over 110 minutes on average per game, its seasonal average for Israeli minutes is 100, half of the game minutes.

In the victory at Nes Ziona the Israelis scored 70 points out of 108 and in the victory over Jerusalem 53 out of 89.

It used to be called the "Israeli College" and it can be called that again.

Quite a few great players of the past came to the Galilee, developed there and went on to glorious careers, this model repeats itself, see what happens to Iti Moskovich who develops into a star.

Moskovich.

Huge game, photo: the league manager

The risk of Ariel Beit HaLhami

Ariel Beit HaLhami who resigned two and a half weeks ago from Hapoel Eilat joins Hapoel Gilboa/Galil, in other words moving from a team in a bad situation to a team in a bad situation.

Gilboa is in last place in the table - only 2 wins and a streak of 9 consecutive losses, prime candidate for relegation.

The past two and a half weeks show that the coach did not rush to sign with the rival, even though he had an excellent 4-year term there in the past.

He also knew that this is a team that will be difficult to restore, it was built badly and there is not much room for change after already 8 foreigners have registered with it this season.

Beit Halami is one of the main factors that made the club in Gilboa a success story in recent years, a success story that is crashing this season in a big way.

Taking command is a potential for failure and a considerable risk for him.

The credit from the previous term will not give him anything, and 2 failures in one season is something that is out of the question for any coach.

It can be estimated that the positive response was also the result of a commitment to the club where he worked, Beit Halami remembered that the club was there for him during a crisis in his career and that the time in Gilboa catapulted him to the top of the coaches.

Emotions probably played a major role here and brought him to a very difficult project and the big risk.

Bethlehem

Coming north, photo: Oded Karni

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Source: israelhayom

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