{"id":86299,"date":"2023-05-03T01:31:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T01:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=86299"},"modified":"2023-05-04T09:38:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T09:38:33","slug":"jerusalem-knocks-off-nes-ziona-with-sights-set-on-2nd-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/jerusalem-knocks-off-nes-ziona-with-sights-set-on-2nd-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerusalem knocks off Nes Ziona with sights set on 2nd place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u05e2\u05d5\u05e0\u05ea 22\/23, \u05de\u05d7\u05d6\u05d5\u05e8 23: \u05e2\u05d9\u05e8\u05d5\u05e0\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e1 \u05e6\u05d9\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4 - \u05d4\u05e4\u05d5\u05e2\u05dc \u05d9\u05e8\u05d5\u05e9\u05dc\u05d9\u05dd 82:75\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EPnKxo8Wq8s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Hapoel Jerusalem downed Nes Ziona 82-75<\/strong> to keep pressure on Hapoel Tel Aviv in second place. The reds controlled the first half of the game and took a 46-37 lead into halftime as they held serve over the final twenty minutes of play to chalk up the win. Next up for Aleksandar Dzikic\u2019s team is a date with Maccabi Tel Aviv on Sunday night in the capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Speedy Smith who had been out the last couple of games returned to score 16 points, Itay Segev added 13 points and Siim Sander-Vene scored 11 points in the victory. DJ Cooper paced the hosts with 21 points and Tyler Bey scored 13 points in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you believe that playing Nes Ziona is going to be easy then you don\u2019t know a lot about basketball,\u201d Jerusalem coach Aleksandar Dzikic began. \u201cThey came out to play and we had our own internal interests in the game by resting Zach Hankins and Levi Randolph and I was willing to pay the price.\u201d<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_81721\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81721\" src=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2FA0EE2C-B0DD-43F4-8E67-6D496B84D183.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2FA0EE2C-B0DD-43F4-8E67-6D496B84D183.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2FA0EE2C-B0DD-43F4-8E67-6D496B84D183-610x407.jpeg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-81721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aleksandar Dzikic &#8211; Photo Credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n\u201cIt was the little things that Hapoel were able to punish us on,\u201d Nes Ziona coach Elad Hasin said. But I am happy as to the way we played in this game and while I would have liked to have won, I am still happy with how we battled which is something that we can take going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hapoel captain Itay Segev spoke about the game, \u201cThis was an important win, we didn\u2019t play as well as we wanted to and Nes Ziona is a good team. We hav-e to still improve. I came in focused and I wanted to show what I could do in this game.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hapoel Jerusalem downed Nes Ziona 82-75 to keep pressure on Hapoel Tel Aviv in second place. The reds controlled the first half of the game and took a 46-37 lead into halftime as they held serve over the final twenty minutes of play to chalk up the win. Next up for Aleksandar Dzikic\u2019s team is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":86259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-86299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holy-land-hoops","tag-hapoel-jerusalem","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jerusalem knocks off Nes Ziona with sights set on 2nd place - Sports Rabbi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/jerusalem-knocks-off-nes-ziona-with-sights-set-on-2nd-place\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jerusalem knocks off Nes Ziona with sights set on 2nd place - Sports Rabbi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hapoel Jerusalem downed Nes Ziona 82-75 to keep pressure on Hapoel Tel Aviv in second place. 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