Aris continued his Eurocup duties in a negative way. His team Yannis Kastritis suffered a 78-68 loss to the Hapoel Jerusalem in “Alexandreio” and fell to 1-3 after 4 matches of the competition, still having problems with his image this season.
The “yellows” did not enter the match well at all and found themselves behind in the score at the end of it first quarter (17-23). The second period was his best Marswho played excellent defense and offense, ran a 22-9 scoring run to take a 39-32 lead into the break.
Nevertheless, the second half it was devastating. The Israelis ran a total of 46-29, with Aris paying for his desperate miss from long range (3/28 three-pointers) and knowing his third loss of the tournament, and indeed second at home after the one against Turk Telecom. It is worth noting that Mars now has 7 defeats in 8 official matches in this season.
THE David DeJulius had a great performance with 30 points (10/14 2-pointers, 1/2 3-pointers, 7/8 shots), but it wasn’t enough for the hosts. He tried but it was wrong o Vasilis Toliopoulos with 16 points (2/9 3-pointers), while no one else scored double-digit points on the Mars side. For Hapoel, 14 points and 15 assists were scored by Jared Harper.
In the 5th game o Mars will welcome her to Alexandria Chedevita (23/10, 20:00) and Hapoel Jerusalem will play with her Cluj Napoca (23/10, 19:30).
The quarters: 17-23, 39-32, 51-48, 68-78
Detailed match statistics here
Source: Sport Fm
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