The team from Tel Aviv scored 30 points in the second quarter to take control of the game
Hapoel fixed early offensive woes to take over against Trefl
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Despite leading 19-15 at the end of the first quarter and finishing with a 91-72 victory, Hapoel Shlomo Tel Aviv struggled through a tough start against last-placed Trefl Sopot. Hapoel simply shot the ball terribly in the first 10 minutes, going 5-of-15 from two-point range (33%) and 0-of-2 from behind the arc, as free-throw shooting and offensive rebounding were the only good news for Coach Dimitris Itoudis’s team.
“I have to congratulate the team for the win, but I gotta be honest. It was not our best game,” he confessed. “We did not play well offensively. That's one of the worst games. We did not move the ball well, we were stuck on a lot of isolations and individual plays, but we were hustling, that’s the good point.”
Everything changed in the second quarter, though, as Marcus Foster and Antonio Blakeney combined to help Hapoel gear up on offense and play at a higher pace. The result was a 30-point performance with 21 of those coming from the American duo. The percentages rose, as Hapoel made 10 out of 12 two-pointers (83%) and hit twice from downtown on 5 attempts (40%).
As a result, Hapoel escaped to lead 49-32 at halftime and the margin never went below the 10-point mark until the end of the game.
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Itoudis praised his players' performance despite the offensive woes and a below-par output at some moments of the game: “[Even] not having the best performance, we scored 91 and had the lead almost from the beginning until the end. It says something about this team, so congratulations.”
With this win, Hapoel needs just one more win in the last round against ratiopharm Ulm on the road, or a loss by Dreamland Gran Canaria, to secure second place in Group A and to enter the playoffs with more guarantees, something that seemed not to worry Itoudis so much now.
“I don't look that far, for the quarterfinals or whatever,” he confessed. “We have one more game left, a crucial game for us on the road against a very good team.”