Golnoor's close defeat against Calais
The Golnoor Isfahan basketball team lost 85-77 to its guest Kalleh Amol on Monday evening in the seventh week of the Men's Basketball Premier League.
The Golnoor team, which had faced Kalleh Amol at 17:00 on Monday, 14 Aban, at Shahid Meisami Hall in Isfahan, ultimately fell to its guest by a score of 85-77 and recorded another home defeat in its first Premier League campaign.
The match began with a storming start by Hamidreza Shams's pupils, the head coach of Golnoor, bringing a 5-0 lead for the Isfahan team, but as time went by the Amol representative reduced the margin, and this quarter eventually ended 20-19 in Golnoor's favor.
In the second quarter, the two teams traded points evenly, but at the end of the period the Isfahan representative showed better form and managed to preserve its 8-point halftime lead, posting a 56-48 score on the board.
In the third quarter it was Kalleh Amol that made the better start, but Golnoor, three minutes before the end of the quarter, was able to level the score in the period at 13-13; however, by the end of the quarter the advantage went to the pupils of Mehran Hatami, the former head coach of Zob Ahan and current head coach of Kalleh, who managed to secure a 20-17 lead in this quarter, although the overall score at the end of the quarter stood at 60-55 in favor of Golnoor.
The final quarter began with a lightning start by Kalleh, and the Amol team was able to get within one point of the Isfahan rival in three minutes. Although Golnoor called a timeout at this point, the tactic was not successful, and in the seventh minute Dwight Buycks scored 6 points to bring his team to 77 points against Golnoor's 73. The closing minutes also passed quickly for Golnoor, and ultimately the Amol representative inflicted another home defeat on Golnoor, 85-77.
With this result, Golnoor stands in sixth place with ten points, while Kalleh, with 13 points and behind Tabiat Tehran, retained second place in the standings.
With the conclusion of the seventh-week matches, the basketball league was suspended because of the upcoming national team camp for the FIBA Asia Cup qualifiers.