Hapoel Holon will play tomorrow (Tuesday) against AAK Athens at its alternate home in Sombothei, Hungary, for the second match in the top 16 stage of the FIBA Champions League.
The team will be missing guard Deondra Burns, who sprained his ankle in the victory over Hapoel Eilat last Friday.
The team's coach, Amit Sharaf, spoke before the match: "The game against AAK is a key game that we need to reach with the maximum level of preparedness.
We will meet a team that changed their coach last week and won on Saturday in the league after four consecutive losses."
The coach went on to praise the opponent: "AK is one of the most talented teams in the factory, led by Brandon Knight, who was a leading point guard in the NBA for years, and Jordan McRae and Justin Tillman, who we know from our league, and these are two quality scorers. We will have to press the ball and make For them to play outside their comfort zone."
Regarding his plans for the game, the coach said: "Offensively, we will have to enter the offensive game much better than how we played in Spain, where too many times we let the opposing guards disrupt the beginning of our attack and I hope that we will continue the distribution of the ball from the last league game in which we gave 25 assists. We are going to challenge no Simple, but we believe that we can come as one unit that is getting better and better and come back with the important victory.'
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