Hapoel Tel Aviv 
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Maccabi Tel Aviv
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Sunday 21:00: It's Derby Time!
Maccabi's head coach Giannis Sfairopoulos before the derby: Derby is always derby, it doesn't matter in which situation you are, after a winning streak or a losing streak. John-Di: "It's one of our biggest games of the year and we're looking forward to it"
“Derby is always derby”, it doesn’t matter in which situation you are, after a winning streak or a losing streak, bad moments or good moments it doesn’t matter derby is a different game and everybody needs to be focused, ready, concentrated and fight for every ball. The most important thing for us is to win all the small battles during the game that will give us the win. We want to continue our good performances and we need to continue and play good basketball defensively and offensively.
“I think that at the end of the day we’re going to get everyone’s best shot and we have to come prepared and ready to fight especially in the derby”, said John DiBartolomeo who scored 14
point in Maccabi’s huge win over Barcelona on Thursday. “It’s one of our biggest games of the year and we’re looking forward to it”.Maccabi lose overtime thriller to Hapoel
Maccabi chased Hapoel and completed an amazing comeback thanks to Wilbekin's juggernaut performance (36P) forcing overtime where Hapoel secured the 104:94 win over Maccabi
Coach Sfairopoulos’ starting five: Scottie, Zoosman, Caloiaro, Cohen and Black. Cohen was the first to score in the game
enroute of a 6:2 lead. The reds tried to stay close to Maccabi but Roll scored five points to keep the yellows ahead (8:11). Limonad scored from downtown to complete a 5:0 run for the hosts who took the 13:11 lead. Hapoel had the final say in the first quarter with Ginat and McNeal increasing their lead to 21:13.Both teams traded blows at the beginning of the second quarter with Maccabi being the side to capitalize trimming Hapoel’s lead to 23:20 forcing the reds to call for a timeout. Douglas and Howell completed a 7:0 run for Hapoel who took the
double digit lead (30:20). Caloiaro and John-Di completed an 8:0 run forcing coach Franco to call for a timeout with the scoreboard showing 32:29. McNeal and Devon increased Hapoel’s lead to eight points a lead they kept until the end of the first half (44:36).Maccabi capitalized from deep as they trimmed the locals’ lead to 50:47. Scottie’s
three pointer of the night brought the yellows to within striking distance (52:50). Howell scored six points for the locals to put them ahead 58:50 deep in the third quarter. Ginat was the last to score in the third quarter giving his team the 61:52 lead.Maccabi completed a 5:0 run at the beginning of the fourth but the locals’ reacted with a run of their own (66:57). Scottie was the man for Maccabi scoring seven points to trim Hapoel’s lead to 71:67, but the reads reacted again with an 8:0 run taking the 81:70 lead with 04:05 remaining in the game. Scottie kept the yellows alive bringing Maccabi all the way back to 85:81 with 01:19 remaining in the game in the game. Wilbekin and Caloiaro’s free throws’ made it 86:84 with under a minute remaining in the game.
Limonad made both of his free throws giving Hapoel the 88:86 edge, Wilbekin drove inside to tie the game and drew the foul, he kept his composure from the line making it a tie (88:88) with 0.02 remaining in the game sending the game to overtime.Shuler scored from deep but Wilbekin was fouled and made both of his free throws (91:90), Shuler increased Hapoel’s lead from the free throw line making it 96:90 with 01:52 left in overtime. Black made it 95:91 from the free throw line but the reds capitalized from the free throw line taking a
double digit lead from which Maccabi couldn’t recover as they lose 104:94 on the road.