2024-04-13 16:19:06
Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv’s tight game schedule continues with a fourth game in seven days. After the victory over Milan in Belgrade on Thursday, the Yellows return home to the Hall on Saturday night at 19:50 to host Hapoel Holon in the 24th round of the Premier League (live broadcast on 5SPORT).
Our 12th
The squad registered for the match against Holon includes John DiBartholomeo (captain), Antonios Cleveland, Lorenzo Brown, Wade Baldwin, Rafi Manko, Roman Sorkin, Hasiel Rivero, Jake Cohen, Yaron Goldman, Omer Mayer, Josh Niebo and Tamir Blatt . This means that James Webb, Joe Thomason and Bonzie Coulson will be rested this time.
state of affairs
The champion comes into the game after 15 consecutive wins in the league, the last two of which were over Bnei Herzliya and Ironi Nes Ziona earlier this week. Maccabi has a record of 3:18 and wants to take another step towards securing the top of the table before the upper house games.
The guest, on the other hand, is still fighting to secure its place in the upper house, when it stands in fourth place in the table with a balance of 8:12. The Purple suffered a blow in their last game with a home loss by a point to Maccabi Ramat Gan, which came after three wins in a row.
Know your opponent
Amit Sharaf’s team mainly relies on its two American interior players, Justin Smith (15.9 points and 6.5 rebounds per game) and Kevin Harvey who joined in the middle of the season (15.5 points and 5.9 rebounds per game). C.J. Harris also contributes his part in his third season in Holon, while in the Israeli section the names of Drew Crawford, Nathaniel Artzi, Shawn Dawson, Yotam Hanouchi and Niv Mashgav stand out.
What did we have there?
Maccabi beat Holon 84:86 in the meeting between the teams in the first round away, thanks in large part to 19 points from Bonzie Colson. In 128 historical meetings between the rivals within the league, Maccabi won 111 times and Holon 17 times.
Judges
Ofer Mannheim, Dan Yalon and Uri Shalhabi.
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