The hosts led from start to finish to clinch a comfortable home win
Hapoel cruises past Trento, 89-68
Game Report
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Hapoel Shlomo Tel Aviv extended its winning streak to three games by crushing Dolomiti Energia Trento 89-68 on Tuesday evening at Samokov Arena in Bulgaria. The hosts led by double digits for the majority of the game to grab a comfortable home victory. Hapoel improved its record to 9-5, with Trento, whose head coach Paolo Galbiati missed the game due to illness, dropping to 4-10.
Bruno Caboclo led all scorers with 19 points, which he paired with 8 rebounds. Antonio Blakeney netted 13, with Marcus Foster and Yam Madar scoring 11 each. Jordan Ford paced Trento with 17 points, with Anthony Lamb and Saliou Niang recording 11 and 10 points, respectively.
Madar got Hapoel going with a layup before a triple from Foster and a bucket by Tomer Ginat gave the hosts a 7-2 lead. Selom Mawugbe and Johnathan Motley traded scores inside, with Lamb netting a midrange jumper that cut the difference to 11-10. But Ginat and Foster drilled a three each before a Madar layup in transition opened a 19-10 lead. After Jordan Bayehe and Myles Cale netted inside, Toto Forray and Blakeney exchanged triples, with Hapoel leading 26-17 after 10 minutes.
Hapoel started strong from beyond the rainbow in the second quarter, with Caboclo drilling a couple of triples and Madar scoring one of his own for a 37-21 cushion. Buckets from Oz Blayzer, Joe Ragland and Patrick Beverley were followed by a three-pointer from the latter, but Trento didn’t allow Hapoel to pull away, with Ford and Denis Badalau sinking a triple apiece to trim the deficit to 48-32 at halftime.
Foster, Madar and Motley scored inside for a 20-point advantage, 54-34. Trento replied with 6 unanswered points by Ford, but Foster nailed one from deep before setting up Motley on the break for a 59-40 lead. Yet, the visitors responded with a 4-10 run fueled by Bayehe, who scored Trento’s last 5 points of the third quarter to trim the deficit to 65-50.
Hapoel opened the fourth quarter with a 7-2 surge capped off by Caboclo’s third triple of the game. Blakeney netted a tough midrange bucket that took his tally to 10 points, maintaining a 74-54 lead for the hosts. Lamb and Blakeney exchanged triples before 4 unanswered points from Caboclo restored an 83-61 cushion to all but put the game on ice.
