Outside the Lines, 2.2/Video Editing: Ziv Steiner
Maccabi Tel Aviv returned to the local framework this evening (Saturday) when they beat Hapoel Holon 84:86 at the end of a close game that will be remembered mainly for negative reasons that did not touch the orange sport.
During the second quarter, Bonzie Colson, the forward of the Israeli champion, jumped to save a ball and fell towards the stands of the Hapoel Holon fans.
After he got up, the host fans pushed Colson in what almost led to a confrontation with a separation between the Maccabi Tel Aviv players and the crowd.
The two fans of the team who were involved in the confrontation were summoned for questioning by the police tomorrow morning.
Coulson said of the incident: "We knew there would be a hostile atmosphere, but something like this is unacceptable. Something has to be done about it. Even before I was motivated, but this woke me up."
Regarding the treatment of the fan, the forward added: "Something needs to be done about it. Holon should suspend them for a few games or the entire season. If I were to pay them back, then they would punish me, so of course they should be punished. But the main thing is that we won, and that's what matters."
Oded Ketch summed up the game: "Obviously, I'm very happy with the result. In the schedule we have, we're exhausted, bruised, injured. That's why Wade didn't play, to get a rest, Lorenzo is also having trouble with his back, Rafi just came back from an injury. In these circumstances We cannot take any victory for granted. This is not our biggest game. We were a little naive, we gave them 9 offensive rebounds in the first quarter. We found the energy to win here."
"Holon should suspend them for a few games or the whole season."
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Ketch added: "We have nothing to do with the fact that people may be missing here. Both the management and Avi Evan are thinking about it, whether it happens or not, we'll wait and see. Obviously, as a coach with a squad like this, you prefer a wider squad with one or two more players, so what There is, and that's what we're fighting. This year is exceptional, last year we had charter flights and everything was much easier. This year we feel it. Injuries from overload with excess travel, it's statistically influential. It's another challenge we need to deal with them. We are not in the best physical condition possible, and you can see it, it is reflected and we are paying a price for it. From October 7th, we try to make less excuses and do more. It's not easy, but that's the way it is. And it's not going to be It's easier later on, you have to look at the reality as it is, and with that do the maximum. I felt that the way Holon switched to guard, they switched less and switched to a different defense, I felt it would be easier to use one tall."
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Amit Sharaf summed up the loss: "At the end we will remember one or two baskets that we could have prevented from them, but in the first quarter we gave them four easy baskets in the paint that we had fouls to give, you can't give that against the big teams. Against the big teams in this hall we have to be at a distance of one ball, I'm not surprised. You can't get that many easy baskets in the paint. This team is built with a lot of size in the 3-5 position, and we can't get easy baskets like that. When you're a team with more limited resources you have to go for something, if I were Going for Goodell I would lose something else. The ways to deal with it is team defense and aggressiveness, we also took offensive rebounds, we talk about it in every practice that everyone should take 4-5 rebounds and repel each other. I wish I had room to put in another player with Goodell, But I won't change because I believe in what we have and the advantages we have. We need to gather ourselves tomorrow, and do a good training session on the second."
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