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Maccabi Tel Aviv climbed to third place last night (Monday) in the basketball Premier League after beating the table leader Hapoel Eilat 77:90 at Hichal Menorah.
The yellows, who recorded a third league win in a row, will play four league games next week and will make up for the large lack of games they have that was caused by the postponement of games from the beginning of the season.
Oded Ketch's team showed up for the game last night without Lorenzo Brown and Bonzie Colson who were not registered, and without Rafi Manko who is suffering from back pain and is in doubt for the upcoming games.
Ketch was able to distribute the minutes so that Wade Baldwin played only 14 minutes, most of them in the first quarter, and seven players played between 20 and 24 minutes, including junior Omar Meyer.
Maccabi ran away to 6:21 in the first quarter and has since dropped a gear, losing two of the next three quarters and conceding a total of 71 points in three quarters.
In the team, at the end, we cheered for Antonios Cleveland who excelled with 18 points and 6 rebounds against the team from which he came to the Yellows.
"Cleveland was great, he deals with the difficulties like a pro, he's great in the locker room. I'm glad he was the standout in this game," Jake Cohen said at the end, "He's a great addition to the court, both on and off the court. He has the skills Since October, we haven't played many games in the Israeli league and we haven't had many training sessions. I'm sure he will get right down to business because he has the abilities along with a great character to succeed."
Cohen added to the team's ability and said: "It was an important victory for us today, even though we haven't been playing good basketball lately and we didn't play well today either."
Starting to get into things?
Antonios Cleveland/Danny Maron
The Yellows will take off tomorrow morning to Riga on two flights for the match against Anadolu Efes, when the medical situation in the team is not at its peak.
The Euroleague transfer window will close tomorrow evening and in the last few days Maccabi Tel Aviv seriously considered adding a player in positions 2-3 who would thicken the squad, but as of now it seems that the move is stuck.
"There was unanimity regarding the necessity of another player for the squad," said one of the team members last night, "There is also a player or two that we know can be brought in in terms of options. The chances of this coming to fruition are probably not high."
"We have many challenges, many more challenges than usual," said Jake Cohen, "playing for Maccabi is a challenge, and we have other challenges in addition to this this season. We should not turn them into excuses. We have the ability to win games, we overcame challenges this season, That doesn't mean that's why we don't play great. There are difficulties, you can point to all kinds of things, but it won't help in the long run. If we want to be a champion team, a great team, we have to overcome it."
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