The meeting between Prometheus and Hapoel Tel Aviv will take place in Riga on Tuesday, November 14. The match will start at 19.00 Kyiv time.

Following last week’s away defeat against Lithuanian club Wolves, the same painful changes that club president Vladimir Dubinsky warned about began at Prometheus. In the last match against Riga Zelli, four players did not take part – Marcus Keane, Rashard Kelly, Vyacheslav Petrov and Andrei Voynalovich, who will most likely leave the club. Of course, the selection department is already looking for basketball players to replace them. But at the moment the Ukrainian club has only ten players, and with such a shortage the “giants” will have to play against the Israeli “Hapoel” from Tel Aviv, one of the strongest teams in our group and, in fact, the entire team. The European Cup as a whole.

Prometheus’ rival was created in 1935. In its eighty-eight-year long history, the Tel Aviv team has not won many trophies. Hapoel’s CV includes just five domestic titles (the last in 1969) and four Israeli Cups. However, this did not happen because Hapoel was a weak team, but because Israel had for too long the local best team and European continental giant Maccabi Tel Aviv, for whom domestic cups were in short supply only on very big holidays. The club also had its dark periods. So in 2007, due to huge financial problems, Hapoel was immediately transferred to the fifth league of Israeli basketball, but in 2012 it returned to red-white (the colors worn by the club). were given to local elites and most did not leave.

Our club’s closest rival does not regularly compete in continental tournaments. This is only the fourth time Hapoel has entered the European arena since the club’s return to the Israeli Premier League. Last season the club built a very strong squad and was among those competing to win the European Cup. However, in the quarter-finals Hapoel faced another favorite, Spaniard Joventut, and lost to him 74:82.

The situation is repeated this season. The Israeli club once again has a strong squad and is once again among the candidates for the highest places in Europe’s second biggest cup. The aggravation of the situation in Israel added great difficulties to Hapoel. Currently, the domestic championship of its rival Prometheus has not started and the team only plays European Cup matches away, it only managed to play its first round match at home. Hapoel’s match against the Lithuanian Wolves, which was supposed to be played in the second round, was also postponed indefinitely.

Results of Hapoel’s matches in the 2023/2024 European Cup:

October 3. Hapoel Tel Aviv (Israel) – Cedevita Olimpia (Slovenia) – 100:73

17 October. “Venice” (Italy) – “Hapoel Tel Aviv” (Israel) – 81:97

24 October. “Hamburg” (Germany) – “Hapoel Tel Aviv” (Israel) – 72:111

2 November. London Lions (England) – Hapoel Tel Aviv (Israel) – 90:98

8 November. “Paris” (France) – “Hapoel Tel Aviv” (Israel) – 114:87

The distinguishing feature of the Israeli team in the last two seasons is its very entertaining and offensive basketball game. Hapoel consistently ranks among the leaders of the European Cup in various categories of offensive statistics. Currently, Hapoel sits second in the tournament in terms of points, with an average of 98.6 points per game. Israelis are in first place with an average of 25 assists per match. In addition, three(!) representatives of Hapoel are among the five best snipers in the European Cup. These include American guard Javier Munford (18.6 points per game), Israeli forward Tomer Ginat (18.2 points) and another forward, this time from the USA, Jaylen Hoard (also 18.2 points). These players and Colombian forward Brian Angola (average of 14 points per game) can be called the leaders of the team.

If Hapoel has enough leaders, the fact that Prometheus has not yet found a player who can lead the team has also led to changes in the composition of the Slobozhan club. However, in this shortened version of the squad, the “titans” broke the streak of three consecutive defeats by beating the Latvian “Rigas Zelli” last Friday, 92:79.

However, today Ronen Ginzburg’s team will face an opponent of a completely different caliber. Hapoel are among the favorites for the European Cup and their attacking potential is capable of beating any defense in this tournament. “Prometheus” has begun an unplanned restructuring, and the Ukrainian club will definitely devote some time to it. I’m not saying that the Slobozhan team won’t have a chance to win today, but under these circumstances a hypothetical victory against the Israeli club is likely to be a pleasant surprise rather than an expected success.

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