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Yannis Sapropoulos: "We started the preparation late, we will try to get into the rhythm as soon as possible"
The Maccabi Tel Aviv coach is preparing for the opening of the Euroleague against Alba (Thursday, 21:04): "We have three injured players, but there are no excuses. We want to win."
About Bender: "It will take at least two weeks to join the team"
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Wednesday, 30 September 2020, 16:10
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More than six and a half months after its great season ended at the end of the 28th round, she will return tomorrow (Thursday, 21:05, Sport 5) to the Euroleague when she will host Elba Berlin without a crowd in the first round of the 2020/21 season.
The Yellows arrive for their first official game of the season, just like the German team, after the Winner of the Winner's Cup quarterfinal game against Hapoel Haifa was postponed following the closure imposed in the State of Israel last weekend.
Yannis Sapropoulos' team arrives for the first game of the season with a missing roster - captain John Dibertolomeo, guard Yuval Sussman and forward Omri Caspi are not qualified and will not be on the roster.
Dragon Bender, who joined the team earlier this week and did a limited number of training sessions, will sign up for the contest, but should not get too many minutes.
On the other hand, national guard Max Heidegger will not be registered for the game and is expected to be loaned out in the coming weeks, most likely to the National League.
Those who will make their Maccabi debut are Chris Jones, Oz Blazer and Anta Žižić, with only the latter playing out of the three in the Euroleague.
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Yannis Sapropoulos said ahead of the game: "We start the Euroleague after March, and we are excited that we can compete in the Euroleague games again. The situation is not like in March, we do not have our fans with us, we want to play against them, give them the excitement of the game, unfortunately "Luckily we have to play without them. We have to focus on the game and do the best starting tomorrow, we have Alba who are a very good team, they kept their base from last season, the same coach and the same philosophy, we have to follow our game plan."
"We finished the previous season very late and started the preparation later from each team. We will try to find our game pace as fast as we can, without three injured players, with a player who came just this week and did three training sessions. I am not looking for excuses. We are at Maccabi Tel Aviv, Our goal is to win all the games, we will obviously lose games, there is no unbeaten team. "
The coach added: "I'm not looking for excuses. We are who we are, I believe in the staff I have and we will go to war like this. A positive thing from the Corona to our team is that we kept the core of the team, our budget went down from last season, everyone understands it, it was hard to keep "Most of the players are with us and it's a great success for the management and the system to keep most of the players we wanted to keep. We started the preparation with players who know me, and that's why we didn't train too much. If we had more new players we would be in a harder situation."
"I do not know if it is good that the league was postponed, we will not have fatigue but we need games to find our pace of play. We will see the results and know if it was good or bad. We are trying in the current situation to prepare the team in the best way. Bender will need two weeks "Or three to join the team, he did not play in March."
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Alba Berlin will land in Israel tonight and will only stay at the hotel apart from tomorrow morning training and the game.
From the announcement of the closure of Israel, the Germans expressed no fear of arriving in Israel, when the Euroleague clarified to them that there was no doubt about their personal safety or health.
Alba presents a squad based on local players - the Guard very much for him who came from Bayern Munich, is the big name along with inside player Johannes Themen and forwards Luis Olinda, Nils Gippy and Tim Schneider.
Uruguayan guard Jason Granger arrived from Basconia, and together with Swedish guard Marcus Eriksen, American coordinator Peyton Reason and young and talented Croatian center Krezimir Nikic, form the team's foreign reinforcement.
The team is coached by Aito Rances who will celebrate December 74.
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