Hapoel Holon hosts Maccabi Tel Aviv this evening (Saturday) for a complete game from the 11th round of the Premier League, to which each team arrives in the opposite direction.
While the Purples recorded their first victory in the Top 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday at the expense of AAK Athens and four days before beat Hapoel Eilat in the league, the Yellows last week suffered losses to Real Madrid and Baskonia who continued the trend of entanglement in the Euroleague.
Since April 2022, in the season that ended with its championship, Holon has a streak of five losses to Maccabi Tel Aviv in the league, including playoffs.
Wade Baldwin, who at the end of Tuesday's game scandalously lashed out at one of the referees in a manner that may lead to him being punished in the Euroleague, was not included in the champion's squad and James Webb was not registered to compete either.
On the other hand, Deondra Burns, who is suffering from an ankle injury, is not available to Amit Sharaf.
early nerves.
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the progress of the game
Quarter 1
The game started hot and passed with a technical foul to Lorenzo Brown already in the second minute, after he threw the ball towards the referee.
Roman Sorkin with a three-pointer and a dunk raised Maccabi Tel Aviv to 8:9.
The center continued to be prominent on the blue side, Justin Smith reacted on the yellow side and the guest's advantage decreased to 3.
Hasiel Rivero scored two more times and Maccabi ended the first quarter with a
21:23
lead .
2nd quarter
Antonios Cleveland flew in with a nice dunk, CJ Harris responded with important points that stopped Maccabi's momentum, but Rivero dunked from the line and kept the advantage on Ketch's side.
Harris added another 3-pointer that cut the difference, Brown got into things with a nice jump shot and the advantage increased to 7, 4 minutes to the end of the quarter.
Quick points by Shawn Dawson and Nathaniel Artzi reduced the margin to 3 and set a Ketch timeout.
Drew Crawford continued Holon's run which stood at 0:11 and the advantage went to the host.
40 seconds to the end of the quarter, Bonzy Colson jumped to save a ball and reached the Holon fans stand.
One of the Holon fans pushed Coulson, when a commotion broke out on the spot as Maccabi Tel Aviv players arrived to keep Coulson away from the place.
A 3-pointer by Rafi Manko made it
43:45
at halftime for Maccabi.
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