Holon released Troy Coffin

Apparently, Hapoel Holon’s European season could not have ended otherwise, and the last few seconds in front of Litcablis would have crushed it perfectly. It was the cruelest and most painful, mainly because it was again in the hands and left a huge sense of missed. And yes, it happened back home.

Holon still led 66:68, less than a second to end, but Marcus Foster made a foul on Paulius and Alinskas in the shot to three. The first two of the line went in, the third jumped several times on the ring and for a few moments the ball seemed to come out, but in the end, it passed through the hoop like an arrow in the heart of everyone present in the Toto Hall. Holon was ousted from the Champions League, apparently it just wasn’t meant to happen.

You can’t say Holon people were disappointed at the end of the game. They were broken, shattered, especially after seeing that Sari did the work for them and defeated Menersa. Owner Shlomo Isaac was left to sit on his chair, right in the middle of the lot, minutes after the finish, minutes after the hall was completely emptied.

Early in the season, he marked the rise to the eighth Champions League final as a top target, after three seasons at the factory. In the first season the team paid tuition, last season it missed the last round against Nanterre (also at home) and yesterday it felt even closer, even in the light of the game’s development. “It was the most painful impeachment,” Holon said.
“It’s a tough night, these are especially difficult moments for owners and fans, but we have to overcome it,” Stefanos Dadas concluded. “It’s especially disappointing after Menersa lost, but I don’t really have any complaints. To be honest, Litcablis had quite a bit of luck and the judges were with them in some very important decisions. I haven’t talked about the judgment so far, but what they did upset the whole team.”

Holon was very angry with the trio of judges, with some of the club members even shouting “shame” at them for going down to the locker rooms. But at the end of the day, although there were a lot of borderline whistles that went towards the Lithuanian, Holon did not hang the loss just by judgment.

“It’s a game that was in our hands and again we made too many mistakes, and not for the first time, in the last few minutes,” they said at the club. Dadas also hung the loss in other factors: “To show good ability in the closing moments you need a united team, with players who know each other. We played different lineups each time because of all the roster changes, and again we played different lineups because of the offense’s high problem.”
Troy Copine, like the rest of the players, also seems broken at the end: “I don’t know how I feel. We gave a big fight here, but in a few moves we couldn’t make the difference. It was a tough way to end the game. We tried to transcend the crucial moments, But things just didn’t go our way. We had a lot of ups and downs, and the way to overcome everything is to just move on to the next game. ”
At the end of the game, all the team leaders gathered in the boardroom, with the disappointment still having to make tough decisions. The first is the mother, when and in what position the eighth and final stranger will be added to the league. And if and when that happens, at the expense of who he will be. “Sooner or later we will make more changes, that’s for sure,” Dadas said at the end.