The Israel Basketball National Team will play for the Under-20 Gold medal at the European Championships on Sunday at 9pm in Heraklion, Crete. The young blue-and-white advanced to the title game for the 4th time in the past seven years after disposing of Belgium 67-46 in their semifinal matchup on Saturday.
Head Coach Elad Hasin’s squad took the game to the Belgians from the get go as Ron Zipper and Yuval Levin got Israel off to a quick start just as they did in the team’s quarterfinal win over Germany while Noam Yaacov also continued his fine tournament play to help take a 31-25 at halftime.
Danny Wolf who recorded a 17-point and 18 rebound double-double then took center stage in the third quarter as he scored points a plenty to go up 54-33 after thirty minutes to help the blue-and-white cruise to the 21-point victory. Next up in the championship game slated for Sunday night will be the winner of the Greece and France semifinal.
“It’s an amazing feeling,” Hasin said. “No one believed that we would be here competing for the gold. The story here has been no doubt the Israel National Team and the players deserve all of the credit who are playing with incredible passion.”
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