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Yannis Sapropoulos: "We are not in some disaster, our problem is concentration"

The Maccabi Tel Aviv coach commented on the losing streak before Olympiacos (Friday, 21:00, Sport 5): "We did not play too complicated, we lost one game at home and our home court is not the same without the crowd"

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Thursday, October 15, 2020, 12:28 p.m.

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Maccabi Tel Aviv's season opener (Photo: Maccabi Tel Aviv official website, edited by Itai Amram)

Maccabi Tel Aviv will continue its Euroleague season when it is hosted tomorrow (Friday, 21:00, live on Sports 5) at the Peace and Fraternity Hall in Piraeus at Olympiacos.

The Yellows held a video conference this morning, followed by their first training session ahead of the game in Greece, when in the afternoon the team will take off on a private plane to Greece, after all the logistical problems surrounding the game have been resolved.

Tomorrow morning the team will hold another video conference and shooting practice in hopes of a much improved ability from last night’s loss.

For the first time, Maccabi will play tomorrow in a second game in one week, and coach Yannis Sapropoulos is expected to divide the minutes of the game between the players, with some of them still far from their good form.

Five players got more than 25 minutes at Maccabi last night - with Angelo Cloiaro with 30 and a half minutes and Scotty Wilbkin with 33 minutes of playing the most.

Those who should be fresher are Dragon Bender, who comes after a very weak game against the Germans, Oz Blazer, who looked good from the bench, and Chris Jones who played less than 10 minutes.

Sandy Cohen may also get more of a chance after seeing less than a minute last night.

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(Photo: Danny Maron)

Yannis Sapropoulos said at the press conference ahead of the game: "Olympiacos is a very strong team, different from last season which started the season very well. They lost the first game but continued well and are in momentum. We will have to be in focus. We need to improve our game very much, I do not want to say We're not in good momentum, but if we look at the first games, we won the first and lost the next two games at the last minute, we have to take care of the little details. We will have to come up with a different approach, fight harder on each ball and not get to the last minute. Ready. "

"The mistakes we made are not just ball losses," the coach continued.

"But things we're been working on since the start of the season. We'll have to be focused, analyze Olympiacos' tactics, follow our game plan more, and be ready to perform. Our problem was concentration. I can't believe we played too complicated so far. We need to perform better. "The simple things, we are not in some disaster, we lost one game at home, without our crowd, and our home hall is not like last season. We did not try to complicate things too much. We have to look for our own pace."

Sapropolos added: "The fact that we are missing three players is to our detriment. We lost three players, Sussman, Caspi and Dibertolomeo, these are players who are important to the rotation, know our philosophy and they are not here. Some players returned for the first time in March and need more time. Predict when we will be ready, but hopefully it will be a shorter period of time. "

Waiting impatiently for the wounded.

Yannis Sapropoulos (Photo: Danny Maron)

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Olympiacos have yet to come out of Greece this season, with their only away game being against Panathinaikos.

The team surprisingly lost in the opening round to Zalgiris Kaunas, but then recovered with a victory in the local derby, and last night convincingly defeated Milan.

The team Yorgos Bratzokas is one of the oldest in the Euroleague and features three veteran Greek players - Vasilis Spanoulis, Yorgos Printzis who surprises so far this season with 12.3 points per game, and Kostas Slokas who joined from Fenerbahce and excelled in the victory over Milan.

Apart from the three older Greeks the team has some impressive foreigners - inside players Hassan Martin and Octavius ​​Ellis will be the problem of Zizic and Hunter in the game, guards Aron Harrison and Charles Jenkins will also share the burden.

Shaquille McSick is considered one of the Reds' promising players, and Sasha and Zankov have already accumulated quite a few kilometers in the Euroleague.

This will be the 11th meeting between the teams in the Euroleague in Piraeus since 2000, with the balance standing at 4: 6 in favor of Olympiacos.

Last season, Maccabi Tel Aviv convincingly defeated the Greek 65:90, in what opened a series of very impressive away victories for the team.

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