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A sigh of relief at Maccabi Tel Aviv: "Maccabi's spirit is also in this squad"
After the dramatic victory over Moscow Khimki away at Maccabi Tel Aviv, they take pressure off and congratulate Tyler Dorsey who exploded: "In order to win, he or Scotty must be at their best."
Bryant: "We fought to the end as the coach says all the time."
And also: the entanglement with Studmeier, and the entry into the local framework
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Saturday, October 24, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
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1. The
losing streak of Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Euroleague interrupted last night (Friday) with a dramatic win over BC Khimki 87:89 out at the end of overtime.
Yannis Sapropoulos' team managed to erase a delay of 5 minutes in the final minutes of the game, when Tyler Dorsey with a big three equalizes the result and sends the game to extra time.
In the next five minutes, Elijah Bryant and Dorsey's excellent ability gave Maccabi the second victory in five rounds.
Dorsey was the man of the Yellows with a Euroleague club record of 8 threes and 26 points.
Apart from him four other players scored in double digits - Ante Žižić scored 16 points, Angelo Cloiaro added a double double of 15 points, including 2 threes in money time and 10 rebounds, Scotty Wilbkin contributed 12 points and Bryant finished with 10 points .
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His longest streak of losses in Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Euroleague was interrupted.
Sapropoulos (Photo: Maccabi Tel Aviv's official website)
At the end of the game there was great joy in the locker room of the Yellows after some very tense days that came after the loss to Olympiacos last week.
Coach Yannis Sapropoulos unleashed a winning move after Jordan Mickey's unsuccessful attempt to win the match, and the players hugged long on the parquet.
"It was a huge win. We had lost three games before in the same way, when we were close in the last seconds, but did not let it affect us. We knew we would win a close game, we came and took it," concluded Cloiaro, and the outstanding Dorsey said: "We needed the game. "This is very, in the last games we lost in the last minute, and we finally closed a game, it sounds a bit strange but we did it. We need to know how to build on that, we will have to take this game and continue in the next game."
"It's a game that took a lot of pressure off us, not a lot, a lot," added one of the club's members. "A streak of four losses would take us back to the days we already thought we were behind. It may not be a season like last season, but Maccabi's spirit is also on the roster this season. this".
Drag the group.
Dorsey (Photo: Courtesy of Moscow Khimki)
Reminded me of the great moments from last season.
Dorsey (Photo: Courtesy of Moscow Khimki)
2.
As mentioned, this was Tyler Dorsey's evening.
The guard scored 4 threes already in the first quarter, adding 4 in the second half, including a three that equalized the game 11 seconds to go, and although Alexei Shevad on the other side was passionate with 32 points of his own, he did not lose his temper and was there for the Yellows.
Although in overtime Dorsey did not score, but that did not detract from his great game.
"My teammates found me in the right places, I had to keep confidence, we had to keep confidence as a team, this is a long season and we will still have ups and downs, we showed great fighting and we would like to continue with that," Dorsey concluded the match.
Before the game around the club, there was talk that Dorsey, who is responsible for some of the Yellows' big victories last season, and also for the promotion to the Final Four with the playoff victory over Hapoel Tel Aviv, did not start the season well.
The player agreed in the summer to cut his salary a bit and come to Maccabi, and after four games he returned to being the player of the big games like last season.
"In the end we have two scorers in the team, Scotty and Dorsey, when both are excellent, we usually win, but to win we need at least one of them well," said one of the Maccabi men last night. "Against CSKA Tyler was good, but Scotty woke up Late and it was not enough.
This time Tyler was amazing, he is very important if we want to meet our goals this season. "
3.
Anyone who has listened to Yannis Sapropoulos after almost all of his losses at Maccabi Tel Aviv in the last two years has heard the Greek coach repeatedly talk about the issue of "never give up".
In the rare cases that the Yellows were defeated under Sapropolus, he made sure to talk about it in a negative way, but mostly praised the spirit of his team that did not break.
Last night, it happened again and the Yellows stopped the streak of close losses with a win in Moscow.
"I think we played a good game, we fought until the end which is what the coach talks about all the time, we showed it today, we showed our fighting spirit, the spirit of Maccabi. It's a big team victory, we will celebrate tonight and get back to work," said Elijah Bryant who scored Two important threes in overtime and Angelo Cloiaro also spoke on the exact same subject: "We just kept fighting. We were trailing towards the end, less than 3 minutes to go we were trailing 5, but we scored some big baskets. Tyler scored a huge basket, Elijah scored "Two big threes, we made the stops when we needed to."
One of the team members tried to explain what Sapropoulos preaches to the players: "Not giving up is not just continuing to play, it is not lowering the head even when the game seems over, because it always matters how you finish a game. When you keep playing until the end, and give everything, sometimes you take "A lost game. Not giving up is Hunter's block before Dorsey's three, that's how the bench looks the whole game."
A tough battle.
Zizić (Photo: courtesy of Moscow Khimki)
Excelled at graduation.
Bryant (Photo: Courtesy of Moscow Khimki)
4.
During the game, there was a report in the United States that last season's player Amara Studmeier is expected to be appointed to his friend Steve Nash's assistant at the Brooklyn Nets, and retire from active play.
If the appointment does go through, the rumor mill about the chin's return to the Yellows will end.
The last time Studmeier and the heads of Maccabi were in real contact was during the last month, shortly before the start of the tight closure on Israel.
Maccabi wanted to bring in Studmeier before the start of the season, the player expressed a desire to return, but eventually announced that he would make a decision at a later stage.
Maccabi believed that his arrival in Israel is a matter of weeks, and that in the end he will wear the yellow uniform this season as well - but will have to do without him now.
It is important to note that Studmeier is not only a bonus to the staff of Yannis Sapropoulos, but it is possible that this is a real need.
Maccabi has only two senior players in position 5, with the injury of one of them leaving the team with a big hole.
Along with Dragon Bender's disappointing ability, Maccabi would have wanted more reinforcement and thickening for the staff, but it seems that the dreams will have to wait for the time being.
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5.
After almost three months Maccabi will resume operations on Monday as part of a local when you meet Hapoel Haifa quarterfinal of the Cup Winner.
The current game will be the opening shot for five busy weeks for the Yellows, weeks that could have been busier if not for much postponement of games that will probably be completed during the months of December and January.
Maccabi during this period will play between 12 and 13 games in the Winner's Cup, the National Cup, the League and the Euroleague.
The team is expected to take advantage of this period to get some players involved, including Chris Jones who gets minutes in the Euroleague but in the league should be more dominant, maybe build Dragon Bender's lost confidence, if it is decided to register him for the league, and bring C back through local games. Van Dibertolomeo and Omri Caspi who are closer to the return than Yuval Sussman.
Maccabi received an announcement last week that Sussman, Dibertolomeo and Caspi are among the 30 players eligible for Oded Katash ahead of the Israeli national team's bubble in Valencia, but the players will not be called up to the squad and are expected to play the Euroleague game against Milan and the league final against Nahariya.
Euroleague 2020/21
Group
Mash
Netz
A.
Hp
Gates
Nk
1
Bayern Munich
5
4
0
1
374-403
9
2
Zalgiris Kaunas
5
4
0
1
373-398
9
3
Barcelona
5
4
0
1
367-393
9
4
Olympiacos Piraeus
5
3
0
2
370-384
8
5
CSKA Moscow
5
2
0
3
404-392
7
6
Maccabi Tel Aviv
5
2
0
3
406-405
7
7
Fenerbahce / Ulker
5
2
0
3
369-373
7
8
Milan
4
3
0
1
308-321
7
9
Valencia
4
3
0
1
293-318
7
10
Real Madrid
5
1
0
4
411-376
6
11
Panathinaikos Athens
4
2
0
2
319-320
6
12
The red star
4
2
0
2
309-308
6
13
Anadolu Zero
4
1
0
3
314-306
5
14
Basconia
3
2
0
1
213-226
5
15
Moscow Khimki
5
0
0
5
422-378
5
16
Alba Berlin
4
1
0
3
351-310
5
17
Zenit St. Petersburg
2
2
0
0
139-147
4
18
Wheelerban
2
0
0
2
152-136
2
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