The opening quarter was competitive despite early turnovers by the hosts. Hapoel jumped ahead 5-10 after a Motley basket, but Netanya fought back with athletic plays to trail just 16-21after 10 minutes. The second quarter proved decisive. Following an early Netanya basket, Hapoel erupted on a 0-15 run led by Chris Jones, stretching the margin to double digits. Two three-pointers from Oz Blayzer and strong defense pushed the gap to 20 points. At halftime, the visitors led 29-46, with Jones and Bar Timor pacing the offense.<\/p>\n
The third quarter maintained the status quo as Hapoel\u2019s advantage grew. Motley and Ennis shone for the visitors, while Buchanan and Christon tried to keep Netanya afloat. A late three-pointer by Wainright capped the period at 47-70. The final quarter was largely garbage time. Netanya trimmed the deficit briefly with a 0-8 spurt, but Ennis halted the momentum, and Hapoel cruised to a 70-93 win.<\/p>\n
After the game, Itoudis praised his team\u2019s focus despite a grueling travel schedule: \u201cWe were serious, came with the right approach, and were the better team on the court.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opening quarter was competitive despite early turnovers by the hosts. Hapoel jumped ahead 5-10 after a Motley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-149688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}