40 minutes away from a championship. Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv, will face (Thursday 21:10 local time, Sport5) Hapoel Holon for the 2018 finals game at the Menora Mivtachim arena. The Yellows have completed their preparations and are poised and ready to bring back the championship plate after three years. The foreigners that will not be registered for the game are Jackson, Bolden and Art.
Maccabi's head coach Neven Spahija said at the press conference: "The most important thing for us is to focus on our game. We will try to fix the things that didn't work well for us, Maccabi is playing right now its best basketball since the beginning of the season and the players are coming with full confidence. We respect our opponents but we want to come to the game prepared and do exactly what we did in the last month".
"I’m never a 100% comfortable" Coach Spahija added, "If that's how you feel before a finals game than something is not ok with you, the issue here is not Pargo but the entire team of Maccabi Tel Aviv versus Hapoel Holon".
"We will try to execute our game plan" said Norris Cole, "We will give everything we got and we will try to do our best, the preparations are the same preparations just before every game. Every season has its ups and downs, our main focus is to win the title. Pargo joined us and it's great. As you can see, we can play together".
Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv will play its first final since the 2014 season where the yellows have won all four title. In the 2014 finals where the champs were crowned in a format of home and away games (accumulated score), Maccabi got the 163:161 win over Haifa in over time.
So far Coach Neven Spahija won seven championships: two in Croatia with Cibona Zagreb, in Slovenia with Krka Novo Mesto, in Lithuania with Rytas Vilnius, in Spain with Vitoria, in Turkey with Fenerbahce Ulker and also with Maccabi Tel Aviv in his previous stint with the yellows (06/07 season) where he beat Dan Shamir's Jerusalem in the finals.
Maccabi's head coach Neven Spahija said at the press conference: "The most important thing for us is to focus on our game. We will try to fix the things that didn't work well for us, Maccabi is playing right now its best basketball since the beginning of the season and the players are coming with full confidence. We respect our opponents but we want to come to the game prepared and do exactly what we did in the last month".
"I’m never a 100% comfortable" Coach Spahija added, "If that's how you feel before a finals game than something is not ok with you, the issue here is not Pargo but the entire team of Maccabi Tel Aviv versus Hapoel Holon".
"We will try to execute our game plan" said Norris Cole, "We will give everything we got and we will try to do our best, the preparations are the same preparations just before every game. Every season has its ups and downs, our main focus is to win the title. Pargo joined us and it's great. As you can see, we can play together".
Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv will play its first final since the 2014 season where the yellows have won all four title. In the 2014 finals where the champs were crowned in a format of home and away games (accumulated score), Maccabi got the 163:161 win over Haifa in over time.
So far Coach Neven Spahija won seven championships: two in Croatia with Cibona Zagreb, in Slovenia with Krka Novo Mesto, in Lithuania with Rytas Vilnius, in Spain with Vitoria, in Turkey with Fenerbahce Ulker and also with Maccabi Tel Aviv in his previous stint with the yellows (06/07 season) where he beat Dan Shamir's Jerusalem in the finals.