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Yannis Sapropoulos: "Dragon Bender has not yet found his rhythm."
Hunter is expected to be absent
The Maccabi Tel Aviv coach admitted that the Croatian's progress is "slower than we wanted".
On the pressure at the club, he said: "If you win 10 games in a row at Maccabi, you have to win 11."
American in Doubt for Zalgiris (Thursday, 9:05 p.m., Sports 5)
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Wednesday, 11 November 2020, 16:20
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Maccabi Tel Aviv will continue its Euroleague season tomorrow (Thursday, 21:05, live broadcast in Sports 5) when it hosts Zalgiris Kaunas in the eighth round.
The Yellows reach the top of the Euroleague table with two wins and five losses, while the Lithuanians are in the top of the table with five wins against only two losses.
One victory in the last six Euroleague games is Maccabi Tel Aviv's unflattering balance in the last month.
If that is not enough, then the Yellows faked in the middle of the week in the state cup against Maccabi Ashdod from the national team, advanced to the next stage in the cup, but were far from showing proper ability.
The Israeli champion is coming to a game that will be its fourth in one week, and with Othello Hunter in doubt after not training since suffering a blow to the head last week in a loss in Istanbul.
Dragon Bender, who has not played since that game and suffered a blow to his leg, is set to play.
Maccabi Tel Aviv sees the upcoming game as a key game, especially when next week the team goes to two away games in Spain against Real Madrid and Valencia, and it could in a home loss to the Lithuanians reach a situation where it opens a significant gap from the place leading to the playoffs.
The team's three other injured, John Dibertolomeo, Yuval Sussman and Omri Caspi, will not play tomorrow, but may join a trip to Spain.
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Still in doubt.
Othello Hunter (Photo: Danny Maron)
"We have a very important game tomorrow, we are playing against the best team in attack in the Euroleague, a team with 4 out of 4 in away games," Yannis Sapropoulos said at the press conference.
"These numbers show the quality they have, it's not surprising that they lead the table because they play very well, they are in good shape, the best fit in the Euroleague. To win this game we have to play well on defense, cut their points, and keep them in shape. "Smart, read what they want to do on offense and confuse them. Offensively we have to play smart, find their weak parts on defense and hit them there. I expect a very tough game from our side, we will fight for this victory with all our might."
On the players who are not fully qualified, the coach said: "We do not know more about Othello, we have three players missing and there is a chance he will not play tomorrow, we will know after the morning training. If he does not play, we will try to cover with the players we have. , So far he has not found his pace, from the beginning I said he came last to the team, at the end of September, and did not play in the first game in October, he did not make the preparation for the season, he did not train with touch for seven or eight months, he is out of pace, And this will be our fourth game in eight days and we did not train. I could not use him in the league because he had a small limitation in his knee. His progress is slower than we wanted, and in the games we wanted him to play he was injured, but I believe he will be fine. to play".
On the opening of his team's mediocre season, the Greek said: "There is a connection between the end of our games and our shortcomings. In short rotations, players are humans, they are not machines. They will not bring the same output every day, so in a short rotation in the Euroleague, we have a problem. Expect the players to be ready to fight hard, and the most important thing for me is to make the good decisions on offense and defense. It's time to beat Zalgiris, I knew I had not beaten them yet with Maccabi, this is a very good team, we have a higher motivation to win games like this. A game for Maccabi you have to win games no matter how much pressure there is, if you win 10 games in a row, you have to win 11, it's not easy.I'm the coach of Maccabi, and my players are the players of Maccabi, I like this pressure, because with him I produce "My players know that no matter what, they have to play as hard as possible."
It's not it yet.
Bender and Sapropoulos (Photo: Danny Maron)
If there is one thing that should worry Maccabi Tel Aviv in addition, it is the balance against Zalgiris.
The Yellows have lost all four of their last games against the Lithuanians, who have even won two of their last three visits to Yad Eliyahu.
Yannis Sapropoulos also lost all his games with the Yellows to Zalgiris, the only team he has not yet managed to win as Maccabi Tel Aviv's coach in the Euroleague except for Real Madrid.
Zalgiris has undergone a real revolution this summer.
Coach Ronas Jasikevcius and his place were taken by Austrian Martin Schiller, who previously coached in the NBA Development League.
Schiller added quite a few key players including inside players Augustine Robbitt and Joffrey Lubren, forward Nigel Hayes and slingshot Steve and Astoria, but Zalgiris' skeleton has been preserved and includes center Lucas Lacvicius, fantastic slingshot Arturas Milkniss, veteran forward Paulius Jancos American coordinator Thomas Wakap and above all so far the October MVP of the Euroleague, Marius Grigonis with 15.7 points, 2.9 assists and 2.6 rebounds per game.
Lithuanian young talent Rokas Yukobitis will not be able to take part in the game after being infected with Corona less than two weeks ago.
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