Premier League relegated: How much has the Premier League weakened in basketball ahead of the new season? - Walla! sport

2020-10-31T05:30:18.007Z

The senior Israelis left the league and were replaced by players from the second league who would have to prove themselves. The road to citizens has been blocked, budgets have dropped because of the corona, and not only that, and even the pressure will go up because for the first time in a decade and a half there are two downs. On the dismal season ahead

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Premier League relegated: How much has the Premier League weakened in basketball ahead of the new season?

The senior Israelis left the league and were replaced by players from the second league who would have to prove themselves.

The road to citizens has been blocked, budgets have dropped because of the corona, and not only that, and even the pressure will go up because for the first time in a decade and a half there are two downs.

On the dismal season ahead

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Is it the Premier League or the National League?

(Photo: Danny Maron)

We examined the first Israeli quintet in each of the 13 league teams - 18 of the 65 players on the list played last season in the national league, 30 percent, with most of them in four teams - Hapoel Eilat, Urbani Nahariya, Bnei Herzliya and Hapoel Haifa.

So it is true that two of those teams are new immigrants, but most of the new immigrants leave a player or two from the second league, Haifa Red chose to keep both the foreigners and two significant Israelis, Herzliya came up with almost the entire staff.

"Eight players went up with the team and stayed in the Premier League," says Herzliya coach Sharon Drucker. "This is not something we hid, and Eldad (Akunis, A.S.) also told me that this is what is going to happen, both in terms of budget and belief in them. I was not a year Last, but from what I know and hear that there was a cohesive team, mentally strong and warlike, the desire was to continue it and add two good foreign players to them. We needed another Israeli so I took Kravitz, we need to formulate this staff. He is not much different, but the team is aliyah The level from the second division to the first division is different. "

Not only the immigrants chose to do so.

Urbani Nahariya with only two Israelis who played in the Premier League last year - Joe Alexander and Niv Misgav, and the squad was joined by three Israelis who played in Leumit - Or Leumi with a past in the Premier League, Ofek Ben Yaakov who played a little in the Corona League and Gal Gilinsky.

"It was a very unusual summer that we started it late, because we played until the end of July, most teams in Europe started the preparations for the season normally, and even earlier," says Danny Franco. "In Nahariya there are rarely players who continue for more than one season. "It was not an easy summer, a lot of senior Israeli players left, in addition to senior Israeli players who did not return. There are not many teams under Maccabi Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and maybe even Holon, who can also financially afford to have only old and proven players."

But according to the Nahariya coach, the opportunity given to those slightly unknown players could be a success story.

"There is no vacuum here, a lot of players have left, and into this place have entered players who can acquire their place in the Premier League and some of them will take a step forward in that direction. If this step is not completed this year, it could be perfect next year, each at his own level of maturity. He is one that players move up from the National League to the Premier League, and there are rare players who move up from the youth to the Premier League. For difficult players in the level of maturity and physicality, unless it is Yam Madar or Danny Abdia, individual players made the move. There are usually no shortcuts. At the end of last season, we did not reach this stage so I thought it was right to let him join the team. Gal Gilinski brings physical, athletic abilities and also in terms of understanding a game he is in the first league. Everyone had a butt, and now has a chance to prove themselves. Or Leumi and Niv Misgav already "There were first league players, and their status is being upgraded to a status that was not there before. It's also changes that are going through."

When Hapoel Tel Aviv chairman Rami Cohen is told about the weaknesses in the league, he does not necessarily agree. "I agree that at the moment there is some weakness or decline, but we have really weakened, this is an exaggerated definition.

I mention what one tends to forget, Israeli basketball unfortunately between the beginning of the season and the end of the season there are huge differences.

The teams try to make changes, the beginning of the season a little pressure, a little losses and everything changes, every season there are between five and eight high-level foreigners and that changes the level of the teams.

Good players have gone abroad, but young people are coming who are making the leap, faculty players are becoming full-fledged players. There are weaknesses because of the Israelis who have gone abroad, there are weaknesses because of the reduction in foreign budgets, but not dramatically.

The gaps may close during the season.

At the same time,

there will be two or three new foreigners here. "

Aviv, only the first to receive citizenship early and not have to pay a fine, will be registered with his team for sure. "The whole issue of citizens' restrictions stems from tax considerations and loopholes in the law," says Franco, "a significant part of the citizens who played here played because they cost little money.

Once the consideration has become economic, then when there is a law looking to get around it, that law is a hybrid production of the situation we got into, teams were looking for players who were profitable to hire because they have no money and they want to invest it elsewhere.

There had to be a change, that's what was decided in the end. "

But due to a citizens 'petition, the law softens for the coming year, and groups that signed citizens who were supposed to pay a fine, won." It was unsportsmanlike to approve the citizens' issue by July 31 and what August 1, it's a shame and disgrace, teams did not take players because there was a certain law, teams took players and hoped to change the law, in the end it is a combina- tion state.

If a law is passed to repeal it in the end, then we too would have built the team differently, Travis Warrick was with us last season, and he was a candidate to stay if his cost did not increase by tens of percent because of this law.

"You see how the decisions are made in the country, so that's how it is in basketball, there are casualties, there are casualties who know how to make less noise and there are those who know how to make less noise," says the Nahariya coach.

"This is a combinatorial state."

Danny Franco (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)

Another reason for the expected decline in the level is the decline in group budgets.

By definition, and to get the safety net money, league teams had to cut 20 percent of players ’salaries from last season.

This cut came mostly to the Israeli players, usually to the lower tier players, but the senior players were also required to cut.

For most teams, foreign wage cuts were less than 20 percent from last season.

"I know from conversations with at least two players in the league who held a contract and asked them to cut back, that they know that the salary increase of foreigners compared to last season has hardly hurt their teams," says one of the senior Israelis in the league, "in the end the teams came to older Israeli players. They will stand up and leave the country like Tomer Ginat, Itai Segev and Rafi Manko, and say to them - "You do not want to cut back?

"It will not end well." This also hurts the level in the end, some of the players were dropped from the league at all, looking for themselves to this day. "

"I understand the attitude of the Ministry of Finance, if you are not harmed then why do you want money, there are enough bodies in the country that want money," Rami Cohen tries to explain the situation, when Hapoel Tel Aviv players were also required to lower their salaries, "this year not only quality is important to them Suppose the Treasury did not ask us to cut money, do you think we would not go down in budget anyway? At Hapoel Tel Aviv we dropped almost a million and a quarter shekels in sponsors, how can you do the same expenses with less income, and the main variable expenses are the players' salaries, the rest is difficult "Change. Players 'salaries automatically decrease. Players' salaries fall by between 20 and 25 percent on average, hurting the level a bit, but it's not a one-size-fits-all, because we brought in the same players for a little less money."

"Seven teams will be defeated in Daman until the final whistle in the lower house" (Photo: Oded Karni, league director)

And if the flight of players was not enough, then the pressure in the Premier League will increase this season due to the increase of the league to two relegations through the league table, for the first time since the 2004/5 season.

Although in two different cases since then there have been two relegations, but the relegations were determined at the end of the playoff series.

This season, the last two at the end of the lower house, after 30 games, will find themselves in the second division, in what can only increase the rush and unrest between the teams.

"Everyone wants to take a championship, to win the state cup," Franco says, "there is a certain method of play, seven teams will be defeated in the blood until the final whistle in the lower house, have to look at what's happening in the Euroleague and European countries, we will not be different. Everyone in isolation forever, it will not happen.What happens all over the world will come here too, as it did in the past, we have not started playing yet, there is no reason we will be detached from any other country in the world, the element of sportiness seen in Euroleague and elsewhere will be significant. There is a team that misses the playoffs because it lacks players, there are teams that invest a lot of money, and that's true for everyone. Teams invest here to be competitive, they all invest to the best of their ability, it could be that in the quarter or semi final of the National Cup teams will play without players Sportiness. "

The Nahariya coach goes on to say: "We should have looked around the near corner and realized that this is another year and it could also eliminate our basketball, not sure how many safety nets there will be, how many sponsors will meet their commitments, we go into the unknown, if we want better basketball after Corona, so maybe we should take down one foreigner, look that this is a season with an asterisk, maybe a team that takes a championship can be the one with the perfect squad in the last two weeks.It's economic interest here, if you want teams to survive and not collapse, we see the economic situation That he is not good and he will not get better soon, it will affect our life in general and basketball is a small puddle within our life.It is important that the teams finish the season with a certain base into next season.I think they should have frozen everything for two years, be competitive, set criteria for participation in Europe, "Eliminate ups and downs, give teams peace of mind to play basketball, make players, enter economic sanity this year and come out of it strengthened. Not to mention after a few years the corona, it will pass, the question is how we will pass it."

Franco's opinion also exists among some of the board members, but the original decision cannot be reversed.

The one who actually supports the issue is Rami Cohen: "We must go down and up, without it the league will be very uninteresting. Do not forget that precisely because of what we are talking about, the difficult budget problems of the teams, if you say no down, within a week four teams make a financial season. "The ups and downs are not determined in one week, it is possible to change foreigners and fix, in a whole season the one who is less good is the one who goes down. There is no Ashdod or Ashkelon season that is sure to go down, everyone can go down, including Hapoel Tel Aviv, .

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