1. Sea Mader, a product of Hapoel Tel Aviv left the club this summer partisan Belgrade. Although it is also the season the player has the Red Tower and begins to play an important part in the group - Lotan Amsalem son of one of the great symbols of the worker at all times, Shimon Amsalem.
The thought was Lotan will be the bench player at Hapoel. One who will receive "unreal" minutes, ie at the end of games when the game is over.
Danny Franco, who first gave the stage to Yam Madar, does the same with Amsalem. Lotan is already a legitimate rotation player in the team. He played 15 minutes - scored 8 points and took 6 rebounds, and soon he will no longer be just the son of.
Goodes in despair, last night at Drive In.
Things can change, Photo: Oded Karni
The opening of the Premier League shows that the color orange is no longer in fashion after Ness Ziona and Maccabi Rishon LeZion are the only ones without a win after three rounds.
At first it looks even worse.
These are not just three losses, but three hard defeats totaling 77 points, with in the first two games she did not go through 67 points and twice she conceded over 100 points.
Rishon LeZion has not started the season like this for 12 years and all this is happening to Guy Goodes at a very strange time after he was recently appointed coach of the Israeli national team.
So what led to this collapse at the start of the season?
There are things that Rishon planned and did not materialize and there are things that she simply did not plan well.
The things that were planned and did not happen were, for example, the team's outside line when the team from the wine city built on a good back line on paper: TJ Williams who previously succeeded at Hapoel Beer Sheva, Chris Claiborne was a hot name in Europe in the summer and Noam Dovrat is a talent.
In practice Williams is unharmed, Claiborne had personal problems that forced him to travel to the United States and Noam Dovrat has not yet recovered from the injury at the end of last season.
And what were the things that were poorly planned?
For example going for an inside player like Malik Dame.
The chin is based on his blocking ability, but teams of the size of Rishon must have high foreigners who will be factors in the attack, like Achilles Mitchell last season for example.
Giving up an Israeli on the line like Noam Avivi is a mistake.
Now it is not a question of whether there will be changes in the squad but when and how much.
It seems that Maccabi Rishon will look different soon.
Bab.
Will he lead Herzliya to the top even at the end of the season ?, Photo: Udi Citiat
Like the first, Bnei Herzliya does not remember opening such a season, but for them it is from the other direction.
It is one of the two units (along with Holon) that were not defeated this season.
The team from Sharon has only suffered in recent years.
She was relegated, spent a season in the National League and survived a last-minute relegation last season.
She started last season with 7: 0, she opens the current season with 0: 3.
The secret is balance.
Sometimes one decision upgrades and balances the group.
Herzliya originally built the group differently.
It was supposed to be built around Courtney Portson: coordinator, scorer and leader.
The actor fell ill in Corona and did not join.
Very close to the start of the season, a structural change was made when an excellent player with European experience was brought in - Chris Bab to the position of second guard and Quinton Hooker is the solid coordinator next to the main player who showed his great strength in the victory over Hapoel Haifa in a big show.
So Herzliya has the power on the outside line and it balances with a lot of power on the inside line with the great signing of Chinano Onoako and the movement and outside shooting ability of Andy Van Wlit.
Herzliya, by the way, is the only group of these magnitudes to have a staff of three foreign tall ones.