Hapoel Holon has maintained its perfect away balance in the playoffs and is now a single game away from a second championship in its history. The Purples reached the final series without a home advantage, but tonight (Monday) defeated Bnei Herzliya 71:78 in the Jubilee Hall, went up to 0: 1 and will be able to decide the entire season in the home game on Thursday (20:30).
Guy GoodesHapoel Holon coach: “Each team has its own players and the players win the games. We made some right moves and won, but it’s only 0: 1. We will do everything to not come back here. Michael Kaiser and Dalton contributed a lot, we have a lot to learn from the mistakes we made. “We will try to learn it as soon as possible to get ready for the game this season on Thursday. I told the players to remember Hapoel Jerusalem and what was in that home game.”
The coach added: “We managed to delay them in all sorts of things, and even though we got into the offense problem of most of our tall players. , But we knew how to do defensive and offensive actions, we made money time moves and glad we won the game. It’s 0: 1, we must not go out of our way, we passed it against Jerusalem. We will have to attack and defend better. Rafi started fantastic and Pnini was good in the minutes he played. We are a team “Everyone contributed to this narrative, we have a lot of experience, we went through a lot of things, the experience with us and with that we will have to come to the second game at home. We have one more victory for the championship, we will leave everything else after that.”
Tyros MaggieWho led Holon with 23 points, said at the end: “We stayed focused and followed the coach’s plans. We started well, then calmed down and let them come back, but we knew how to recover and finished with a victory. Herzliya is a great team and we expect a similar fight in the next game.”
On the other hand, the losing coach Oren Aharoni He admitted: “In our plus 6, Holon made two big baskets from stray balls, but what was in our backs was a very bad shooting percentage from the outside, probably against the crowded regional. Defensively, we more or less met our goals, but a bad evening from the outside. It’s a series and we are behind Of a game. We have to collect ourselves despite the disappointment and prepare for the game in Holon. I would not call it a panic, it also happened to us in the first game against Maccabi Tel Aviv in the series. It can happen. Some of the shots were good and we had to score. We have to rest, fix The mistakes, to come to Holon, where it will be a completely different story, and to win. “
On Maggie Wargeland: “There were big baskets from Ragland on Chris Bab and more baskets, these are players who can score points even when the defense is good. Such close games are decisive for the little things, they made those big baskets and we did not. Hold Holon on 78 points is “Okay, but we lack a better attack and a better flow in the attack.”