"Joke": Hapoel Jerusalem furious over decision to postpone match against Herzliya - voila! sport

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Hapoel Jerusalem is furious over the manager's decision to postpone Game 4 of the series against Bnei Herzliya from this Saturday night to Sunday. The club claims that at the end of last night's game, which Bnei Herzliya won, the chairman of Bnei Herzliya verbally attacked the director general Shlomi Perry and demanded that he move the game to the first one, all in front of the journalists present at the game."

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The club also claims that Herzliya wanted to postpone the game because there was a "dancing" in the Jubilee Hall on Saturday night, but later it turned out to be a joke. "The joke is at the expense of the league administration and basketball fans," the club said, "The manager proved, once again, that aggression and agitation reign supreme, and that official announcements and final decisions have no meaning, and today Hapoel Jerusalem was informed that the game has been moved to Sunday.

After the painful loss in the Champions League final to Bonn, Jerusalem opened the series against Herzliya with a hard-fought home win and then was defeated in the second game. The third game of the series will take place tomorrow (21:00) and will be critical for Jerusalem, whose loss will cost them home and bring them closer to a very surprising elimination.

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"In recent hours, Hapoel Jerusalem published reports intended to harm Bnei Herzliya and its preparations for the continuation of the playoff series, to inflame the atmosphere. As a source in Hapoel Jerusalem said yesterday at the end of the game near the dressing rooms, "We will produce AEK Athens 2 here." We in Herzliya will not accept these attempts.

After much discussion, we reached an agreement with the administration that the series would open on the 18th, agreeing in advance on the dates of all the games in the series and ensuring that the late opening would not create game pressure if the series reached Games 4 and 5. The dates set between the manager and the group were 18, 21, 24, 28 and 31. Yesterday, about a minute after the end of the game, the team was surprised to see an advertisement in the manager's media that the game would take place on Saturday, contrary to the agreement and in what appeared to be an attempt to establish facts on the ground. That is why there was a discussion between the chairman of the team and the CEO of the administration at the end of the game.

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