The national team break is over, and tonight (Tuesday) the Premier League in basketball returns with the top game between the surprising Maccabi Ramat Gan and Maccabi Tel Aviv who can climb to the top of the table.
Just two weeks ago, the yellows easily defeated the newcomer 75:92, but without many players from the squad.
Joe Thomason and Hasiel Rivero, who played for their national teams, are absent from Oded Ketch's bench, while the injured Roman Sorkin and John DiBartolomeu, who flew to the United States for personal reasons, are not available to the yellows either.
Ketch chose to register Wade Baldwin, Josh Niebo, Lorenzo Brown, James Webb and Bonzie Colson for the game, when Rafi Manko returned in time and also joined the squad.
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Even before the game began, the host held a ceremony in memory of a former player, the late Lior Liubin, who passed away about a month ago, with the participation of his widow, his children and his parents. The city of Ramat Gan announced the naming of the west stand in Zissman Hall after the late Liubin.
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the progress of the game
Quarter 1
The host went up in five with Kendall McCollum, Adam Ariel, Kerem Mash'or, Isiah Miles and Benya Saror, on the other hand Ketesh went up with Tamir Blatt, Lorenzo Brown, Bonzie Coulson, James Webb and Josh Niebo.
Seror trying to avoid a negative record was sent to the line and could have extended the home team's lead to four points, but missed twice from the penalty spot.
Instead, Nivo scored on the other side and equalized 3:3.
After five disappointing minutes and a tie at five, the guest's escape came with two consecutive three-pointers by Cohen and Blatt and a nice penetration into Brown's basket.
Tokoto, who was in doubt for the game, came off the bench together with Itai Moskovitz and immediately scored, grabbed and handed out two assists in a 0:8 run that set 13:15 for Ramat Gan at the end of 10 minutes.
Quarter 2
After a very hesitant first quarter on the part of the guests, Ketch's players soon ran away to a double-digit lead.
Blatt with five points and Coulson with his excellent minutes in the attack - the first player to reach Led and Sparti - flew Maccabi Tel Aviv to a double digit lead 19:30 After five minutes Brenner and it was Brenner's turn to call a timeout.
Tokuto again raised a gear and bit the difference, McCullum with a three-pointer in the last attack brought Ramat Gan closer to 40:33.
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3rd quarter
Saror started the second half excellently and after scoring once from the penalty spot, during the next period he squeezed a basket and a foul and although he returned to Saror and missed from the line, he reduced the difference to four points.
After Nivov and Brown made sure to maintain Maccabi Tel Aviv's four-point lead, Jordan Cohen snipe from the outside and Adam Ariel with another three-pointer from McCollum's assist tied the game at 50 with exactly four minutes left in the third quarter.
Jake Cohen completed a three-point move that returned the guest to the lead, technically the whistle was blown against Ketch and Ariel did not take advantage of the shot from the line, and within the last minute James Webb got on the board for the first time when he made it 54:60 for Maccabi Tel Aviv.
The best move in the game so far came even before the end of the quarter, when Blatt found Baldwin with a crooked eye and Ramat Gan managed to lose a ball and Jake Cohen punished with a 3-pointer that meant 11 difference at the end of the quarter.
Quarter 4
Webb opened the last quarter with two 3-pointers and Maccabi Tel Aviv's run reached 2:19 and a promising advantage of 56:73 with the last eight minutes remaining in the meeting.
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