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Frustration at Maccabi Tel Aviv: "The kind of games that take all the air out"
The Yellows counted a fourth Euroleague loss.
Dragon Bender claims that the Israeli league lacks a team: "It is important that we play twice a week," while Elijah Bryant reassures: "We do not have to reinvent things."
And also: where has Oz gone with the laser, why there is currently no reinforcement and the critical month in the Euroleague
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Friday, 30 October 2020, 06:45
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1.
Maccabi Tel Aviv's bad start to the season continued last night (Thursday) in Yad Eliyahu when the Yellows lost 75:65 to Fenerbahce and went down to a balance of two wins and four losses.
Yannis Sapropoulos' team came into the game after the important victory over Moscow Khimki, but recorded a second consecutive home loss, after losing once at home last year throughout the season.
Maccabi actually started the game well, dominating the first quarter and leading by a promising advantage while Scotty Wilbkin and Elijah Bryant do a good job, but Ali Muhammad and Malih Mahmutoglo led the Turks back to the game in the second quarter and Maccabi finished the half with only a 3-point lead.
The turnaround was completed in the third quarter, when Fenerbahce also gets the great Jarl Eddie along with Muhammad and at the start of the fourth quarter ran away to a double-digit advantage that Maccabi failed to close.
Wilbkin was the only one to carry Maccabi offensively with 23 points, but with only one assist, when apart from him three other players contributed in the attack - Ante Žižić with a double double of 11 points and 10 rebounds, Chris Jones with 10 points In 16 minutes Valise Bryant with 9 points.
On the downside Tyler Dorsey finished with one point despite 7 attempts off the arc, and Othello Hunter scored 3 points, with 1 of 10 from the field.
"Basketball is a game of runs, I do not think anything worked, they scored shots and we got a little stuck, we will go back to the planning board and come better to the next game," concluded Elijah Bryant, "Obviously we could have played better defense, but it's a team game "We should have been more focused on this side."
Dragon Bender said for his part that: "We got out of the game plan we came up with, in the first half we played smarter offensively, we found Scotty and Elijah against bad guards. We missed a few important shots during the game. "
On the floor, Scotty Wilbkin tried to encourage Dorsey, who seemed to take the loss and weak ability in a difficult way, and one of the Maccabi men said in frustration when he left the hall: "It's the kind of game that takes all the air out. ".
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2.
Another game has passed, and once again the credit to Dragon Bender from the professional team continues.
The Croatian forward, who came after a good game against Hapoel Haifa, started in the top five, and even scored the Yellows' first three-pointer, but has not contributed a point since, and despite a few good minutes on defense, finished with a disappointing 2 in almost 23 minutes of play.
On the other hand, Oz Blazer, who would have looked very good at the beginning of the week as well, won less than 8 minutes, in which he contributed an attack just like Bender, but he was forgotten on the bench to make the people in yellow.
"I think the change in the game is a bit difficult, the game I played the last four years is different from the game in Europe, it's a different approach, and the schedule is different," Bender tried to explain at the end of the game what exactly he was going through, "there is a lot of training and we do not play enough games. "We are now picking up the pace with the Winner's Cup, and that will get the players more involved and we will connect, for us to play twice a week, it is important that we can connect."
If Bender gets a lot of credit, Ante Žižić does not get a chance at the end of the game, especially in light of his problematic defensive ability that has been mentioned several times in the past.
Last night, Sapropoulos chose to go again with Othello Hunter early in the fourth quarter, despite a very weak 35-year-old chin, returning the Croatian just 4 minutes to finish 11th behind. He explained this by saying that Žižić was not suitable for the substitution defense and he feared the match His up against Nando de Colo, who did score two baskets in the decisive minutes.
"Othello is a better defender than Manta, it's clear," agreed one of the Maccabi men, "but there are days when creative solutions have to be sought, because a 35-year-old player can have a bad day. Ante could also contribute at the beginning of the quarter and could think about how to hide him on defense In those minutes. "
Getting excessive credit?
Dragon Bender (Photo: Danny Maron)
3.
Despite the fourth loss in six games, Maccabi Tel Aviv are determined at this stage not to make changes in the staff, also due to the reduced budget and the limited options currently available in the player market in light of the lack of clarity regarding the season opening in the NBA.
According to sources involved in the player market, the reinforcement players who could be considered for Maccabi are still determined to reach the camps in the NBA, and it is possible that if certain leagues in Europe are stopped due to the corona, there will be a possibility of strengthening,
The team wants to bring solutions from the existing team, but the injured players are still far from returning to play, and are expected to do so only towards the end of the month according to the team members.
"I don't think we need to reinvent something, it's still basketball, we need to play more team basketball and let the game reach us," Elijah Bryant tried to explain what Maccabi should do differently.
The news that Maccabi received from the league manager's meeting on the afternoon of the game last night, encouraged the professional team.
All eight of the team's foreigners are expected to sign up for league games, and the team will still be able to make two changes at later stages in case of injury or replacement of one player or another.
If the decision had not been made, Maccabi would have expected not to register one or even two of the foreigners for the league games.
Did not get enough help against Fenerbahce.
Wilbkin (Photo: Danny Maron)
4.
Maccabi Tel Aviv wanted to enter November on the right foot, when the Euroleague schedule was not made more comfortable, and the team fears that the pit they managed to avoid with the victory in Moscow over Himki, may reopen as early as next week.
The Yellows will play an away game against Anadolu Efes on Thursday, return to a home game against Zalgiris Kaunas before three very difficult games - Real Madrid Valencia away that week and a home game against Milan at the end of November.
"We know that by the end of November the table should be more or less straight," the club said yesterday. "After a third of the games you can already see trends. We have some very difficult games in these five games, and we will have to know to win in places people do not think we have a chance if we We do not want to be very far from the first eight. "
We need to make a switch and prepare for Rishon Lezion.
Sapropoulos (Photo: Danny Maron)
5.
Meanwhile on Sunday, Yannis Sapropoulos will try to take another step towards a title in Israel, which the Greek coach has so far won two championships, but lost twice in the early stages of the state cup and has not even managed to win the Winner's Cup.
On Sunday, he will meet Maccabi Rishon Lezion, the runner-up, in the semi-finals of the Winner's Cup, with the final date unknown at this stage.
In light of the injured team's situation, Sapropoulos will once again have to use the club's young players - Dori Sahar and Idan Alber, while Sandy Cohen, who was not a partner at all last night for the first time this season, will also get many minutes of play.
Although this is a tournament in preparation for the season, Maccabi do not want to create pressure with an unexpected loss, and are expected to learn Rishon Lezion from the games in the Balkan league this weekend in order to try and qualify for the final of the tournament.
Euroleague 2020/21
Group
Mash
Netz
A.
Hp
Gates
Nk
1
Zalgiris Kaunas
6
5
0
1
447-481
11
2
Bayern Munich
6
4
0
2
474-485
10
3
CSKA Moscow
6
3
0
3
479-476
9
4
Barcelona
5
4
0
1
367-393
9
5
Fenerbahce / Ulker
6
3
0
3
434-448
9
6
Valencia
5
3
0
2
377-393
8
7
Olympiacos Piraeus
5
3
0
2
370-384
8
8
Real Madrid
6
2
0
4
493-476
8
9
Maccabi Tel Aviv
6
2
0
4
481-470
8
10
Milan
4
3
0
1
308-321
7
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
3
0
0
3
235-210
3
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