Tikteknu: today's summary clip in Sport, 22.1 (Sport1)
A huge drama was recorded this evening (Sunday) at the Drive In Hall, in the end Hapoel Tel Aviv beat Maccabi Tel Aviv for the first time this season, a wonderful 95:96 that also secured the first place in the Premier League at the expense of the city rival.
Unlike many previous derbies in the past, the game went smoothly and with a minimum of incidents between the audiences or between the players and the professional teams, except for a confrontation between Maccabi Tel Aviv assistant coach Noam Levy and a number of fans who were standing behind the team's bench, but not beyond that.
"The referees were afraid to whistle against Hapoel", claimed Maccabi (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)
As far as the end of the dramatic game is concerned, Maccabi Tel Aviv was angry at the referee's decision not to give Wade Baldwin three free throws with 9 seconds left: "Shame. The referees were afraid to whistle against Hapoel during this move," said one of the club's staff on the way down to the locker room.
Oded Ketch concluded: "It was a game of runs. We didn't start the game focused enough, neither offensively nor defensively. We didn't know how to keep the advantage we had. We have a lot to learn before the next meeting with Hapoel Tel Aviv. We will have to come more focused, we need to stop them for a lower score, to keep much better. In the end it came down to final moves, referee decisions. I don't know what happened in the last attack, there was a feeling that the atmosphere here affected everyone. We have to concentrate on what we have to do. We have a very difficult series of games, Maybe we'll take something from this game forward to the difficult away games we have."
Ketch added: "Wade, Jaylen and John have enough experience, that wasn't our problem. We have to play much better defense with or without Lorenzo. We'll have to watch and learn, we have to do a much better job defensively. The size of Onuaku is a size that we know how to deal with from the Euroleague. Throughout the game they changed defenses and matchups, changed formations. Not in every attack you get the punch you want. Our problem was not offensive."
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The hero of victory.
Brown (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)
Red Victory star Jacob Brown, who scored 32 points, said at the end: "We knew the team needed me in the absence of Jordan McRae, and I stepped up. I feel a lot better lately, feel more comfortable leading this team, and it feels great. It It was a team victory, we gave everything we had."
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