Hapoel Jerusalem landed in Israel after early relegation from Europe • Owner Eyal Chomsky: "We failed, we will look in the mirror and we will understand where we went wrong. We will fight for the trophy and the championship" • Guy Harel: "We were not eliminated yesterday, we did not look good"
Harel and Chomsky.
Disappointed
Photography:
Danny Maron
Hapoel Jerusalem landed tonight (Wednesday) at Ben Gurion Airport after being eliminated from the Champions League last night already in the home stage, for the first time since it began participating in the factory, when it lost to French Limoges.
"Hapoel Jerusalem always strives the highest," said owner
Eyal Chomsky
, "We failed, it does not suit us. We have to do a home inspection. We are in a sequence of things that have happened beyond our control since the Corona, but that is not an excuse. We look in the mirror and see where we went wrong. We will have the trophy and the championship on the table and we will fight it to the end. "
Chomsky added: "Right now the team does not look good enough and is not playing well enough, we do not have to hide things, we have to deal with them. We are feeling very hard after yesterday. We have to let things sink in. Something in a safe attitude needs to change."
"In recent years we have done very beautiful European campaigns," said CEO
Guy Harel
. "We are used to going through a phase and doing it convincingly.
This year it would have looked bad from the start, we did not miss the rise yesterday.
From the first game to the last we looked not good, we tried to fix but yesterday was a very disappointing ending chord.
"From the beginning of the season we have seen that the team is good, but does not play good basketball. We are trying to fix and improve, and it has nothing to do with the departure of Oded Katash, we were with our backs to the wall and we had to ensure the rise much earlier. It is certainly not related to Adumitis. By no means. "
Team player
Idan Zalmanson
: "Unfortunately this is something that happens quite a bit this season. We come to the game, know the importance and fail to execute. Very frustrating, not that we wanted to end the European season. There is nothing to do, do not have to be with your head down, but try And achieve the remaining goals. "