Just finished watching the game. Here are my impressions:
First of all I did a checklist of the fouls in the last Quarter and counted 18 (16 Defensive Fouls, 2 Offensive Fouls) instead of 25. There were a few questionable calls (I'm not sure on the last foul of Batista for example, the viewing angle wasn't the best either to judge that though), but the majority of the calls seemed to be alright. Quite a few came after Steals or Offensive Rebounds by Jerusalem btw.
Sherfs coaching in the last Quarter was not good imho, he took the timeout way too late during Jerusalems run in the beginning of the 4th, and I didn't understand why the ball was put into Bynums hands that much in the end of the game, instead of searching for a good look. Bynum scored some important buckets, but also committed some decisive mistakes, for example when he missed his FT (after a scored basket + foul) with 40secs to go and Jerusalem leading 90-89. Maccabi took the offensive rebound, but Bynum committed a stupid (and clear) offensive foul only 8 seconds later, giving the ball into Hapoels hands. What followed was the Batista scene, which I can't and don't want to judge here.
Key for this big comeback by Jerusalem were three things imho:
A) Maccabi is not really good at playing a halfcourt offense, they're at their best when they're running the open court (one of the main reasons for their excellent FG percentages btw imo), while set play isn't exactly their fav. In the 4th Quarter Jerusalem managed to prevent them from playing that kind of game, they had to settle with a halfcourt offense, and obviously had big problems there.
B) Jerusalems press defence: I really was surprised how many problems Maccabi had with this defence in the 4th Quarter, at times they really had difficulties to bring the ball out of their half, and Jerusalem stole the ball quite a few times that way.
C) Offensive rebounding. Maccabi had problems controlling their defensive rebound for quite a stretch during the 4th Quarter. I don't know the reason for that, as Morris and Fizer looked way better during the first three Quarters and in other Maccabi games I've seen this season in rebounding, but they had problems there. Especially Arnold took an advantage out of that, and was fouled a few times after grabbing the offensive board.
Arnold really played a good game, Maccabi didn't find a way to stop him, while Jerusalems backcourt also looked better than Maccabis in the 4th. Especially on the PG position Tel Aviv lacked creativity, neither Halperin (more than the other two though) nor Bynum nor Cummings are great creative PGs, they all have their strengths in scoring.
I liked Hagag for Jerusalem there, he didn't only do a better job in playmaking than Maccabis players imho, he also played a really aggressive defense (I still know him that way from AEK and the Israeli NT).
my memory isn't too fluent recently) I remember correctly only one team not called Maccabi TA won the Cup before that in entire history?
I'm watching it now 