Yovav (Jay) Meydad's Personal Blog » Basketball http://www.meydad.com Thoughts on social applications, usability, search, mobile, music and sports Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:46:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 We Are The Champions! http://www.meydad.com/2008/05/29/we-are-the-champions/ http://www.meydad.com/2008/05/29/we-are-the-champions/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 23:15:23 +0000 JayMeydad http://www.meydad.com/2008/05/29/we-are-the-champions/ This is probably one of the biggest and amazing things that ever happened in the history of the game of basketball. This is a story for a Hollywood movie. This is the story of a very happy team, that tonight won for the first time in its history the title – Israel’s Basketball Champions.

Hapoel Holon (Hoolonia) - Israel's Basketball Champions for 2008

And if you are curios to know why I think this is the biggest thing in the history of basketball, read further:

  • At the end of the previous season, Hapoel Holon qualified from the 2nd league to the premier league. After less than a year (!) they won the title.
  • The team is coached by an unknown and inexperienced coach – Michael (Mickey) Dorsman, a charming businessman that bought the team who has been a fan of since childhood, then took also the coach position and did amazingly well in it. Yesterday he received the ‘Best coach of the year’ title. Tonight he won the championship.
  • Hoolonia’s opponent in the final game was Maccabi Tel Aviv, one of the most successful clubs in European basketball. For decades Maccabi has been dominating Israeli basketball with 47 championship titles (since 1970 they lost the title only once in 1993).
  • At the beginning of the season, the team was penalized due to the behavior of one stupid fan who threw a stun grenade in a game and wounded a guard. The stupid guy is now in jail and the team have overcome the difficulties and ended the season in the first place in the Israeli league.

I have been a fan of this team for more than half a decade, attended many games in the good old Holon City arena, watched many more on TV and a few on my PC (thanks to RayV’s player). Today was the best day ever and it was worth the long wait.

 

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Dr J chearing for Hoolonia

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