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Thursday at 21:00: Ness Ziona arrives to the Menora
The yellows will host Ness Ziona in the 32nd round of the domestic league. Art Jackson and Kane will not be registered for this game. The game will be broadcasted live on Sport5
Maccabi’s Coach Spahija said: “The loss to Ness Ziona was a long time ago, we don’t have to think about that game. We respect Ness Ziona’s players they are playing great as of late. We’re working hard both defensively and offensively, and we will try to get another win. Kane who’s not registered for this game is injured”.
“It’s too early to think about who we will play against in the playoffs, we have to wait until the end of the regular season and prepare the best way we can for the team that we’re going to play against. My experience helped numerous times as well as Norris’ experience, and DeShaun, Jake and Jeremy are also contributing” Coach Spahija added.
For the first time since the domestic league reached its halfway mark in the second round, the yellows have started a winning streak, in which they manage to comeback from a double digit deficit to take the win thanks to a crushing fourth quarter against Naharya (32:20) and a 29:16 third quarter against Rishon Lezion. Maccabi’s previous winning streak came to an end against Ness Ziona (76:85), where the yellows held the 43:35 lead at halftime.
In the last two games John-Di has put up a shooting clinic from down town hitting 7/13, In Maccabi’s loss to Eilat he shot 1/6 from distance. The guard who’s leading the league in the +/- rating has climbed to the fourth place on the three point shooting list with an impressive 46.2%. In his two previous games against Ness Ziona he averaged a remarkable 19PPG, 23.5PIR and an amazing 8/10 from down town.
Maccabi gets the 98:95 win over Ness Ziona at home
The yellows are firing on all cylinders just before the domestic playoffs as they win third game in a row. Pargo was on fire with 26P, 20 of which scored in the fourth quarter. Roll added 21
Coach Spahija’s starting five: Pargo, John-Di, Roll, Tyus and Bolden. The game was close at the beginning as the teams were tied (7:7) with Alex Tyus connecting three times for thunderous dunks. The visitors started making shots from distance as they took the 9:19 lead. Cohen and Cole reacted taking the visitors’ lead down to four points, but Ness Ziona reacted with Zana to finish the first quarter strong with the 19:30 lead.
The visitors’ momentum continued into the second quarter as they increased their lead to 22:38, Cole and Zoosman reacted for Maccabi who trimmed Ness Ziona’s lead to 31:40 with the second quarter reaching its halfway mark. Thomas, Pargo and Zoosman completed the comeback for Maccabi with the yellows finishing the first half ahead 48:46.
Maccabi struggled to score at the beginning of the third quarter. The visitors capitalized as they took the 48:51 lead three minutes into the third quarter. Cohen scored for the yellows but Ness Ziona continued their momentum as they took the 50:59 lead, Roll and Cole’s damage control brought Maccabi back into the game (57:61) but Zana and Got finished the third quarter strong as they had the 61:70 lead.
Two minutes into the fourth quarter Pargo and Tyus trimmed the visitors’ lead to 66:73, the visitors increased their lead again (69:81), but then came along Pargo who scored 14 points to complete a yellow comeback (85:84) with a minute and a half remaining in the game, Roll and Tyus increased Maccabi’s lead to four points Cook scored a three pointer to keep Ness Ziona in the game with 15.1 seconds remaining in the game, but Pargo kept his composure as he scored both of his free throws to secure the 98:95 win for the yellows who are now 22:10 in the domestic standings.
