Tikteknu: today's summary clip in sports, 16.2 (Sport1)
Maccabi Tel Aviv lost the state cup again.
The team that won 45 State Cups throughout history, more than any other team in Israel, surrendered tonight (Thursday) 67:61 to Hapoel Jerusalem and was left with only one title win in the last six years.
Also for the coach of the yellow-blues, Oded Ketch, who reached the finals at the Arena in Jerusalem without losing a single final game as a coach in the local arena, also with Hapoel Jerusalem won the state cup twice in 2018 and 2019, this is a particularly painful loss that may also affect his future at the same time as the championship fight and the fight For entering the Top 8 in the Euroleague.
"First of all, congratulations to Hapoel Jerusalem, it's a victory they deserved," said Ketch, "it was a game with a very low score as we expected and I think defensively we were good enough to win, but offensively, even though we started well, we fell because of their over-aggressiveness. It's sad And it's not pleasant because the cup was definitely our goal. I felt we wanted too much in the first half and there was also not a great game by some players who missed easy shots and forced us to chase. You can always do things differently, I'll have to think about it. We lost our composure in the first half and they went on a run that was It's hard for us to come back from it. Jerusalem also scored important shots with the buzzer."
His first loss in a local final as a coach.
Ketch (Photo: Barney Ardov)
On the fact that Maccabi Tel Aviv once again lost the state cup and he did not meet the goal: "I said that it was a goal that we did not meet. It is not pleasant to lose a title even if you are not in Maccabi Tel Aviv, but certainly in Maccabi. It is unpleasant and very disappointing, we will have to learn from it." .
John DiBartholomew added: "We missed easy shots and credit goes to Hapoel Hapoel who played hard and well. They were comfortable at home and of course we are disappointed by the loss, but we will have to move on. We failed tonight, but you can't say that this season is a failure. We have no choice but to look About the next game - this is life."
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