{"id":166573,"date":"2026-01-04T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=166573"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:31:43","slug":"of-course-we-can-win-the-championship-i-feel-like-we-have-the-team-to-do-it-khadeen-carrington-and-hapoel-jerusalem-have-title-dreams-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/of-course-we-can-win-the-championship-i-feel-like-we-have-the-team-to-do-it-khadeen-carrington-and-hapoel-jerusalem-have-title-dreams-in-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Of course we can win the championship, I feel like we have the team to do it: Khadeen Carrington and Hapoel Jerusalem have title dreams in sight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hapoel Jerusalem always seems to know how to raise their level of play when there is something on the line. Cup, championship, big game, high stakes, you name it, the Reds always come to play.
\nWhether it\u2019s at home or on the road, in the Israeli league or in Europe, Yonatan Alon\u2019s team knows how to turn it on and that\u2019s exactly what they did against Hapoel Tel Aviv as they knocked off Dimitrios Itoudis and his band of merry men, 92-77.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hapoel Tel Aviv looked as if they were going to wallop Jerusalem and earn a bit of revenge from the Winner Cup preseason title that the capital city Reds had won on their own home court at the Arena. Going up by double digits was what Itoudis\u2019s squad did just as was the case last week against Zalgiris, but lo and behold they wilted once again and lost the Israeli league tilt just as they did versus the Lithuanians. <\/p>\n

Jerusalem just knows how to win those games that they have to and one of the reasons is because of their strong guard play thanks to Jared Harper, Cassius Winston and without a doubt one Khadeen \u201cDino\u201d Carrington.
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Khadeen Carrington – Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nThe naturalized Israeli is in the midst of this third season with the capital city reds and has been nothing less than a consummate professional day in and day out and has been one of the leaders of the team both on and off of the court. <\/p>\n

Carrington arrived in Jerusalem back in 2022 and has helped the club win a pair of Israel State Cups, to go along with two Winner League Cups as well as a Super Cup earlier this season. The 30-year old Brooklyn, New York native knows how to bring it and when to bring it in the big games just as he did when he was part of the Reds squad that evened up the 2024-25 championship series at one game a piece, a series that never came to an end due to the war with Iran. <\/p>\n

But Carrington was back in Israel soon thereafter and as a married man, representing the blue-and-white at the 2025 Eurobasket tournament that saw Israel make it to the knockout rounds where they fell to Greece.
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Khadeen Carrington – Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nThe guard has honed his trade since his days in college at Seton Hall and during his stops in Montenegro, Spain, France, Belgium and Germany. But his career really began to flourish under Jerusalem Head Coach Aleksandar Dzikic in the 2022-23 campaign that saw the team make it all the way to the Basketball Champions League finals but just came up short against Bonn in the championship game. <\/p>\n

Carrington came into the Hapoel Tel Aviv game with a chip on his shoulder after there had been so much talk about him being a naturalized Israeli both by Itoudis as well as criticism levied by their owner Ofer Yannay which he had later on apologized for. However, as they say, let sleeping dogs lie and they did not as Carrington knew exactly what he wanted to do and how he was going to do it as he earned the game\u2019s MVP award with 20 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists. <\/p>\n

\u201cGreat game, great game, top to bottom,\u201d Carrington exclaimed after the victory. \u201cI feel like everybody from myself, Jared Harper, the starting five, everybody from the bench came in ready. That\u2019s what we need from everyone. Everybody played a part today. I\u2019m proud of the team, I\u2019m proud of the coaches and staff.\u201d
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Khadeen Carrington – Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nOver the past month, Jerusalem has not played its best league basketball and suffered losses to Bnei Herzliya and Hapoel HaEmek while during wins they don\u2019t play their best ball as well. Coach Alon hadn\u2019t been happy by the recent play of his charges and made that clear in the various press conferences that he had conducted. So much so that he spoke to Carrington individually.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout a week or two ago, the coach challenged me,\u201d the guard revealed. \u201cHe brought me in his office and said I\u2019m not playing hard. So the game, that\u2019s my response. It was a challenge. I take every game personally, but tonight I didn\u2019t want to settle for anything. Like you said, that was my mindset coming into the game. I didn\u2019t want to shoot. I wanted to go to the rim. If they can stop me, they can stop me. If I get fouled, I get fouled. They block it, they block it, but I\u2019m going every time. That was my mindset from the jump ball.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like we have such a great team. I feel like sometimes we get a little lazy and complacent. That\u2019s on us. That\u2019s not on the coaching staff. That\u2019s not on anyone else. I think we know how good we are, so sometimes we can go into these games and kind of act like a dazeable. That\u2019s what I\u2019ll blame those losses on. Obviously, a game like this, you don\u2019t have to. The coach don\u2019t even have to come in and talk. We just roll the ball out and we\u2019re ready to play.\u201d
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Khadeen Carrington – Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nJerusalem knows how to play against the \u201cbig teams\u201d but has trouble the those clubs that are not from Tel Aviv so it seems. Carrington wants to make sure that going forward that each game is treated identically and that the team plays their best basketball and not second rate which then could end up in a loss as they have four thus far. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s the next step in our journey, just learning how to play against these other teams. Everybody\u2019s going to give us their best punch, so we\u2019ve got to be aware of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Itoudis has mentioned on more than one occasion that it\u2019s not exactly fair that an import player also is a naturalized Israeli and that is a benefit to Jerusalem that his team does not have. Carrington claims that this does not bother him, although man believe that this was the impetus for his marvelous performance, however, he says that he\u2019s concentrating on what he does best which is playing the game of basketball.
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Khadeen Carrington – Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cI don\u2019t really try to pay too much attention to what those guys say. Obviously, I don\u2019t even have Twitter. I\u2019m on TikTok sometimes. I don\u2019t have Instagram, so I don\u2019t even see half the stuff. People come tell me what they say on there, but I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t really pay attention too much. I come into work every day. I work hard. I stay to myself. I don\u2019t worry about what other guys are doing, what other teams are doing. I\u2019m a grown man with a baby on the way and a wife. I don\u2019t have time to really focus on what those guys are talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the win over Hapoel Tel Aviv, a team that has been tearing up the Euroleague this season, Carrington believes that this win was a statement that Jerusalem is here and in the hunt for what they were so close to capturing last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course. I feel like we have the team to do it. I feel like we had a great team last year. Obviously, we lost a couple great guys from our team, but we also added a few great guys. I think if we stay steady and we come out to play every night how we played these last two or three games, I feel like we can only beat ourselves. That\u2019s something that we have to realize. Me being one of the oldest on the team, that\u2019s something I\u2019ve got to come out and show every day in practice and the game. So, it\u2019s not really any excuses.
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Khadeen Carrington – Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nAs for the top seed, Jerusalem sits in 5th place with an 8-4 record while both Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv are both 10-1 so far this campaign. With four losses already it\u2019s highly unlikely that Jerusalem will finish in first place and have home court advantage throughout the Israeli league postseason. But that is far, far away right now Carrington explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not our top priority right now. It\u2019s just like you. I think at the end of the day, we have a goal. We want to put ourselves in the best position as possible. Obviously, we dug ourselves a little hole, but we got to take it game by game, day by day, but at the end of the day, we have an end goal in sight. That\u2019s something that we got to kind of keep our eye on, but not overstep anything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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