Ambitious and Dangerous Puzzle: Meet Turk Telecom Israel today

Hapoel Jerusalem will meet tonight (19:30) in the opening of the Champions League the toughest opponent it could have had at this stage

• Turk Telecom players.

  Not an easy task for Katsch and his trainees

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  FIBA website

Hapoel Jerusalem will play tonight (19:30) its first game in the FIBA ​​Champions Cup for the 2020-21 season. On paper this should be its toughest game at home early as it meets an opponent with great potential and more in an away game. Why on paper? Because not every star battery connects to pay.Not every combination of big names is a recipe for success.

Four of Turk Telecom Ankara's five foreigners are Euroleague foreigners.

Four quality foreigners who have their place in the top factory in Europe if not above that.

Some were indeed above that and this only adds pressure to the already high threshold of expectations.

The Turks went all out and we got a fine cluster of foreigners in a non-Euroleague team.

They put all the eggs in the basket of the strangers but the local staff is mediocre at best.

Here is a recipe for great success and also for great fall.

On paper, this is a candidate for the title, and for the opening game, Jerusalem has a battle for the home presidency.

In the squad of the Turkish team you can find two draft picks number 18 in 2014 and 2015.

Coordinator Tyler Anis is a household name for Maccabi Tel Aviv fans because he has been in contact with the Yellows three times in the past that did not materialize. 19) of Jalimir Oberdovic he was injured and finished the season.Since his goal was and remains to return to the best league in the world.

A year later he was selected strong within the first round by forward Sam Decker.

He played 200 NBA games in Houston, Washington and the Clippers.

Last season he went to Europe for the first time and played for the Cuban locomotive.

Decker can well know that on paper a constellation does not really promise anything after what he went through at Cuban last season.

Nigerian center Michael Eric comes from Basconia where he played in the Euroleague and before that played in a factory in Drushafka and even won with her and David Blatt in the EuroCup (2018).

Forward Kyle Wilcher continues a second season when his resume includes the Euroleague (Olympiacos), Eurocup (Malaga) season and also 14 NBA games in Houston.

The fifth stranger is already a different story.

This is a European rookie - 23-year-old guard Kamar Baldwin.

The local staff as we said, quite gray.

There is no leading player in Turkish basketball and the prominent names are Gani Golasan and Muhammad Baigul.

The task of taking the glittering bunch of foreigners to high places is on coach Borak Goren and it started badly.

The team did not look good in the preparation and in the final tournament of the Champions Cup that closed the previous season, they already lost in the quarterfinals to Dijon.

The season in Turkey began with a loss to Anadolu Zero, but since then Telecom has had a clear improvement with four straight wins.