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Maccabi Tel Aviv "is not looking for excuses", Wilbkin knows: "We shot ourselves in the foot"
After the home loss to Bayern Munich in the team again talked about the short preparation as a reason for the lack of coordination.
Elijah Bryant: "We need to get back to being the ones to give the first blow."
And also: what happens to Wilbkin, the difference between Bender and Žižić, and the chance for a surprise in Piraeus
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Thursday, 15 October 2020, 06:23
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1.
Maccabi Tel Aviv continued its lame season in the Euroleague last night (Wednesday) when it lost 85:82 to Bayern Munich in the third round of the factory.
It was the Yellows' first home Euroleague loss, which last year they lost at home only after ten wins, and this time they already lost in their second game in the hands of Elijah, who is empty of crowds.
The faces of the team members at the press conference were very serious, while on the other hand Andrea Trinkieri, the winning coach of Bayern comes out smiling with shorts that are a bit out of place.
Maccabi presented one of its weakest halves in recent years when it scored only 25 points in the first half, including 12 points by Ante Zizic, the Yellows' bright spot throughout the 40 minutes.
She saw Bayern hold a comfortable double-digit advantage, and managed to bite into it thanks to good minutes from Scotty Wilbkin who shrank to 5 at the end of the third quarter.
The Germans again ran for a double-digit lead before Wilbkin and Tyler Dorsey dropped to just 2 points, near the end, but no more than that.
"In the first half they played harder than us, we lost a lot of uncommitted balls, we shot ourselves in the foot," Scotty Wilbkin concluded, "We are still learning each other, the game plan, we had a short preparation for the season, it makes it harder, but We need to find the pace. "
The team did not want to look for culprits after the loss, talking mainly about a mental lack of readiness that allowed Bayern to control the game, "There is no reason we are not aggressive enough, we need to be more prepared, Bayern beat us inside, we need to be the ones to give the first blow And move on, "Elijah Bryant tried to explain what happened to his team.
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2.
If there is one thing that comes up at each of the press conferences and conversations with the people of Maccabi Tel Aviv, it is the team's short preparation period that affects the start of the season.
The team does not want to define the issue as an "excuse" for ability, but also last night coach Yannis Sapropoulos said that a normal preparation period for the season lasts six weeks, and the Yellows started their training just six weeks ago.
"We need to learn how to play together, what to do at what stage, these are things we will learn over time," Wilbkin said.
"No excuses, it's our job, we can drop it on the short preparation, on the plague, we have to be ready to get on the field and play the game," Elijah Bryant tried to put out the flames and one of the team members agreed with him but Sage: "We knew "This preparation period may hurt us, but we believed we would be able to get through these two home games, against Alba and Bayern, and not get into too big a hole. We have a tough game board, and it could very well be that this loss will create pressure later on."
The team noted that apart from the lack of coordination that caused quite a few minutes players tried to take the game on them in solo moves, the short preparation caused some players to be far from their good fitness, with among others not interested is Othello Hunter with 6 points and 5.3 rebounds so far this season .
"In a few weeks, they will understand the difference regarding him," Maccabi said.
"No excuses."
Dorsey and Bryant (Photo: Danny Maron)
3.
If you look at Scotty Wilbkin's three games so far this season, you find a pretty clear pattern - a noticeable inconsistency between quarters and halves.
In the game against Albera Berlin, Wilbkin scored 8 points in the first half, and did not score at all in the second half.
Against CSKA Moscow scored 5 points in the first quarter, did not score at all in the second and third quarters and scored 15 points in the fourth quarter. Last night he took one shot in the first half with only 2 points, scoring 25 points in the second half.
"I was more aggressive in the second half," he tried. Wilbkin explain, but apart from the excellent defense that Will Baldwin and his teammates did on the American guard, he also seems to suffer from the fact that he had to lead the ball for long minutes and be the player to coordinate the game. They tried to get Wilbkin to get the ball during the attack, but they got off very quickly. He played very little with Chris Jones, with Yannis Sapropoulos noting that he could not play with both of them to give Wilbkin a rest.
"I love playing with Chris, thanks to him I can Play off the ball.
"As a team we are not doing a good enough job to play together, and we need time to do that," Wilbkin summed up the situation. Play with both Chris Jones and the National Captain.
Sapropoulos finds it difficult to combine him with Wilbkin.
Chris Jones (Photo: Danny Maron)
4.
As mentioned, the Yellows' bright spot throughout the game was the good performance of Ante Žižić who scored 19 points on 8 of 9 from the field, and added 6 rebounds.
On the other hand, whoever wants to forget the game is his Croatian friend Dragan Bender, who won quite a bit of praise before the game.
Bender finished with 3 points, 3 rebounds and 5 turnovers in 11 minutes of play, opening with a five-pointer and getting credit from Propolis.
"If we compare Bender and Žižić, Ante was here from the first moment of preparation and that is the difference between them, he is in better shape but not yet at his level, he will still find his playing fitness," Sapropoulos concluded the difference between the two Croatian players the young.
Maccabi tried not to criticize Bender, who signed a contract from which the team can leave in December, and one of the team members stated that: "Dragan is a really good guy, he works hard and is somewhere else in his career than when he left us for the NBA. He has more bad games, but we believe he can still contribute a lot to us. "
The Yellows' bright spot against Bayern.
Žižić (Photo: Danny Maron)
5.
In the late morning, Maccabi Tel Aviv players will return next to Eliyahu for the concluding training ahead of tomorrow's game (21:00, Sport5) against Olympiacos in Piraeus, with the professional team expected to deliver a video tutorial that includes highlights ahead of last night's game.
Maccabi comes to the game feeling less good, especially after last night's loss, but still with faith in the players' ability to register a surprise and win away.
"We had years of going out to a game like this, against Olympiacos away, and it was a question of how much we will lose," said one of the team members. "Now we are a talented team, it is true that there is a good team opposite, a team aiming to return to the top of the Euroleague this year The CSKA just last week out.
We will have to show better ability, but a victory is not a bad thing at all. "
The game itself will eventually take place on Friday after the Euroleague refused the idea of postponing it by 24 hours on Saturday to avoid problems with the Greek airport strike. And Maccabi believe that their flight that will land in Greece in the late evening will not encounter any special problems.
Euroleague 2020/21
Group
Mash
Netz
A.
Hp
Gates
Nk
1
Zalgiris Kaunas
3
3
0
0
206-227
6
2
Barcelona
3
2
0
1
206-217
5
3
Milan
3
2
0
1
238-243
5
4
CSKA Moscow
3
2
0
1
225-220
5
5
Olympiacos Piraeus
3
2
0
1
214-231
5
6
Bayern Munich
3
2
0
1
235-254
5
7
Fenerbahce / Ulker
3
2
0
1
212-234
5
8
Valencia
3
2
0
1
211-224
5
9
Zenit St. Petersburg
2
2
0
0
139-147
4
10
Anadolu Zero
3
1
0
2
225-233
4
11
Real Madrid
3
1
0
2
254-234
4
12
Maccabi Tel Aviv
3
1
0
2
234-234
4
13
The red star
3
1
0
2
225-222
4
14
Panathinaikos Athens
2
1
0
1
154-149
3
15
Moscow Khimki
3
0
0
3
256-231
3
16
Alba Berlin
3
0
0
3
263-217
3
17
Basconia
2
1
0
1
153-149
3
18
Wheelerban
2
0
0
2
152-136
2
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