Hapoel Jerusalem demolished Nahariya 92-53 at home thanks to solid defense, quality shooting and the visitor\u2019s going 0\/26 from 3-point land. Tamir Blatt scored 8 first quarter points hitting a pair of 3\u2019s in the frame to set the tone as the guard ended the game with 13 points. Bar Timor led all Jerusalem scorers with 14 points while Chris Johnson and James Feldeine each dropped 12 points in the win. Terry Allen led Nahariya with 14 points in the loss.<\/p>\n
3-Pointers<\/strong> 2) It was surprising to see Myke Henry, a prolific scorer having a tough time all night long finishing with just 7 points and going 3\/17. I asked Da\u2019Sean Butler about how Jerusalem shut down the one time NBA player, \u201cWe know that he\u2019s a tough guy to guard and a really good player and I\u2019ve seen him play numerous times. But when you\u2019re playing against guys who can score like that you obviously focus on them. They have a good team and we wanted to make sure we left our imprint on the game.\u201d And an imprint was certainly left. <\/p>\n 3) TaShawn Thomas made his Israeli league return playing in his first domestic match since his suspension ended and he certainly made an immediate impact scoring 10 points on 5\/5 shooting, grabbing 9 boards and dishing out 3 assists. Following the game I asked him about his feelings on his debut for the Reds, \u201cIt felt good and the crowd was rocking. It felt good to be in that environment for the first time.\u201d Thomas also spoke about how he stayed in shape to be ready to go, \u201cI feel pretty good and I\u2019ve been working out on my conditioning a lot. I wanted to try and hit the ground running when I got back so I\u2019m pretty good right now.\u201d He also looked ahead to Wednesday night\u2019s continental clash against Nymburk, \u201cDefinitely looking forward and we want to make good things happen in the Champions League.\u201d It\u2019s good to have TaShawn back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hapoel Jerusalem demolished Nahariya 92-53 at home thanks to solid defense, quality shooting and the visitor\u2019s going 0\/26 from 3-point land. Tamir Blatt scored 8 first quarter points hitting a pair of 3\u2019s in the frame to set the tone as the guard ended the game with 13 points. Bar Timor led all Jerusalem scorers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":12059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248,14,9],"tags":[96,130,98,120],"class_list":["post-12056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2018-19-game-reviews","category-game-reviews","category-holy-land-hoops","tag-hapoel-jerusalem","tag-nahariya","tag-tamir-blatt","tag-tashawn-thomas","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n1) Nahariya went an abysmal 0\/26 from beyond the arc which was a record in Israeli basketball and who knows perhaps a record throughout the basketball universe. Myke Henry 0\/8, Terry Allen 0\/6, Justin Edwards 0\/4 are just three of the Nahariya players who couldn\u2019t find the bottom of the basket from deep. But it wast just the lack of 3-point shooting that did the visitor\u2019s in. Scoring only 13 bench points, being outrebounded 51-39 and shooting only 41% from 2 didn\u2019t he\u2019ll matters for Mickey Gorka\u2019s side.<\/p>\n