Home 5 in the FIBA Champions League will come to an end today (Tuesday) and at this time Hapoel Jerusalem is visiting Turkey with Drushpaka in order to achieve a victory that will give them the first place at home and the direct ticket to the top 16. The team from the capital arrived at the game after a delay of more than four hours last night at the airport which forced her to give up training tonight. Listen:
At the same time as the game in question, Bakken Bears host Ludwigsburg at the same house, with the Germans hoping for a win along with a Jerusalem loss, which would put them in first place and relegate Aleksandar Džikić’s team to second place and into the play-in (with a home advantage), the stage where they were eliminated last year.
The Jerusalem team came to deal with two consecutive league losses, but with three consecutive victories in the Champions League. The opponent came into the match knowing that she would finish in third place anyway, so the match was unimportant to her. In the previous game between the two teams, Jerusalem beat the Turks in Israel 67:69.
fives:
Drushpaka: Markle Starks, Wayne McCullough, Hakan Saili, Akwasi Yeboa, Gabriel Olaseni
Hapoel Jerusalem: Speedy Smith, Orr Cornelius, Levi Randolph, Sim-Sander Vena, Zach Hankins
the progress of the game:
Quarter 1:
The game opened with a 3-pointer by Cornelius, after which the Turks responded with two of their own, with midfielder Hankins also getting on the board with a dunk. The three-point range continued and Vena provided two of his own, with the hosts also completing a ninth point from another three-pointer.
The high tempo continued as the teams traded baskets, and the Turks were able to take the lead after a basket and foul by McCullough. Carrington returned the lead to Jerusalem with a hard basket and Meiris completed a 0:4 run with a putback dunk. Starks stopped the run but Carrington again provided a nice finish en route to another basket. Korkmaz’s three-pointer gave the hosts the lead 22:24 At the end of the first quarter.