Maccabi Tel Aviv closes the regular season in the Premier League tonight (Monday), with a home game against runner-up Hapoel Gilboa / Galil. A victory will leave the Yellows a chance to reach the top house games from first place in the table, when in order to reach the top they will need the leader Hapoel Jerusalem to lose to the top of the table Maccabi Rishon Lezion in a game that will take place later tonight.
The champion comes after a convincing away win over Hapoel Haifa last Saturday night, and tonight’s game is its fourth in seven days, so coach Avi Even continued to rotate and gave rest to Scotty Wilbkin, Angelo Cloiaro and Ante Žižić who were not registered in the squad. In their place came James Nanley, Derek Williams and Jaylen Reynolds who rested in the final game.
Gilboa dropped a streak of three wins with a loss to Nes Ziona 10 days ago, but at the same time it stands on a positive balance with the champion since returning to the senior league in the 2016/17 season, with nine wins from 15 games, including five away wins out of eight visits by hand Elijah.
the progress of the game
Quarter 1:
Frantes’ assist for Kilia-Jones and his basket raised Gilboa to 2: 4. Sorkin and Nanelli scored the first points in the yellow, Cornelius returned the lead to the Reds but Williams with a basket and foul move, and later an assist to a three by Ziv, led the champion to 6:11 before Ziv and Sorkin increased the gap to 11. Battle shrank to minus seven, but Nanley sniped two threes en route to 13:25. Hanochi and Cornelius reduced again, Dibertolomao also scored from outside the arc and then added two more from the line, Reynolds Dyke with two more free throws and a basket from the regular Battle 19:32 To Maccabi Tel Aviv at the end of the quarter.
Quarter 2: