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Disappointment at Maccabi Tel Aviv grows: "We do not know how to finish games" - Walla! sport

2020-11-06T05:38:41.290Z


The Yellows are frustrated with another loss to Anadolu Zero, the fifth in seven games. Dorsey: "Must know to win close games." A laser may rotate at Bender's expense until reinforcement arrives, and also: the data that tells of the team's defensive problem. And when do the wounded return?


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Disappointment at Maccabi Tel Aviv grows: "We do not know how to finish games"

The Yellows are frustrated with another loss to Anadolu Zero, the fifth in seven games.

Dorsey: "Must know to win close games."

A laser may rotate at Bender's expense until reinforcement arrives, and also: the data that tells of the team's defensive problem.

And when do the wounded return?

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1.

Seven rounds into the Euroleague season and Maccabi Tel Aviv still finds itself at the bottom of the table after last night (Thursday) recorded a fifth loss, and this time 91:89 to Anadolu Zero Istanbul away.

Yannis Sapropoulos' team was very close to winning the game, dominating the match from the middle of the first quarter, but despite its control it failed to create a big enough gap and saw how Anadolu stays in the game.

At the end of the game, Maccabi got stuck on only 2 points in the last 3 minutes, when on the other hand Rodrig Boboa scored 23 seconds to the end and gave his team an advantage.

After the Turks missed an opportunity to finish the game, the same Boboa blocked Scotty Wilbkin during the decisive move and gave his team the victory.



Maccabi finished a good shooting evening with 15 threes at 47 percent, with Elijah Bryant standing out above them all with 22 points, a career high in the Euroleague.

Despite this, Bryant did not score at all in the final quarter.

Scotty Wilbkin scored 15 points, Tyler Dorsey added 14 and Ante Žižić scored 10 points and added 8 rebounds.

Dragon Bender in a weak game scored just 2 points in 20 minutes.

"Obviously it's disappointing to lose and that's the end result of the game," concluded

Elijah Bryant

, "we will continue to fight regardless of the outcome of the game, we are right there, two or three passers away from achieving victories."



Tyler Dorsey

added: "I think it was a tough game with a lot of war, again one of the close games we lose. We lose games at the end. We have to find a way to win close games, we played well, we played with the heart, but we were short, need to get back to the drawing board "And to find a way to win. We have two games in the Israeli framework again, we must continue to push and we must not lower our heads."



The members of the group sounded very disappointed on their way to the airport back to Israel.

"We got Anadolu without two key players, the game was under our control but we do not know how to finish games," said one of the Maccabi players, "Maybe if Othello Hunter had not been injured it would have looked different because we had someone who knows how to make the stop when it matters."

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NEWS

Euroleague: Wilbkin blocked on the buzzer - Maccabi Tel Aviv lost 91:89 to Anadolu

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Blocked during the last.

Wilbkin (Photo: Courtesy of Zero Anadolu)

2. The

feelings at Maccabi even before the game in Turkey were that this is a very important game for the rest of the way, but now the club already knows that the next game, against Zalgiris Kaunas at home, is the kind of game in which a loss will put the team in a difficult situation.



"We look better from game to game on the offensive side, we have great minutes, minutes we play really convincing basketball and get output from a lot of players, but it does not help us win," concluded one of the team members. "But also about the results, and the results as of today are not good. If we do not know how to beat Zalgiris next week, we will find ourselves already in a pit and from there the road to the playoffs is very difficult."



The disappointment from

Dragan Bender

, who as mentioned was also one of the weakest in the team yesterday, is only increasing, but Maccabi is having a hard time finding the player who will upgrade the staff and take his place.

Yannis Sapropoulos gives a lot of credit to the Croatian, but last night he preferred

Oz Blazer

over him

in the decisive moments

after the Israeli forward played little until that point in time.

It is possible that at least until this position is strengthened, the coach will prefer to change the order slightly in the rotation and give more minutes to the player who came from Rishon Lezion.

Excelled, it was not enough.

Bryant (Photo: Anadolu Efes)

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  • The problem: the game load is really not over

3. As

we approach the midpoint of the first round of the Euroleague, it can already be said with certainty that Maccabi Tel Aviv has a defensive problem, and especially a defensive problem in away games.

The Yellows are ranked in the middle of the seventh round of the Euroleague (and many of the teams are still missing many games) in 16th place out of 18 on defense with almost 81 points per game they absorb.

Only Real Madrid and the Moscow Khimki, who absorb close to 82 points per game, are ranked below it.



The problem is exacerbated when Maccabi leaves Eliyahu immediately.

In the team's four away games so far this season it has conceded 84.7 points per game, after stopping CSKA Moscow in the first away game of the season on 76 points.



"Our style of play is one that creates a lot of attacks, but we get too many easy baskets and timing. Very problematic, "said one of the team members last night," in almost every one of our games this season we looked bad in the last quarter.

So it's true that the opponent scores hard baskets as well, but at the same time it is impossible to clear our players of mistakes. "



So how weak is the last quarter of the Yellows defensively? Out of seven games, only once did Maccabi win the last quarter, against Bayern Munich, and Then it absorbed 25 points in the quarter, three times it stopped the rivalry by less than 20 points, but twice scored less than its opponent, and in total Maccabi absorbs 22.3 points on average in the last quarter and scores only 17.8 points.

And the load is only increasing.

Cloiaro (Photo: Courtesy of Zero Anadolu)

4.

Maccabi Tel Aviv returns from Istanbul with a loss and a minor, and probably not very significant, injury to

Othello Hunter

.

The chin was hit in the head at the beginning of the last quarter and could not return to play when he felt a little blurred, but the club estimated last night that it was not too serious an injury and he will not have to miss games.

However, Hunter will today undergo a comprehensive examination by the group's doctors.



Last night, Yannis Sapropoulos released his first hint at the return of the team's injured players: "We need everyone to be ready to play, including our injured players."



Estimates among the team members are that

Omri Caspi

, the first player to return to play, will not be eligible for the game against Zalgiris Kaunas next week, but some argue that Caspi will be able to play in the duo in Spain the following week, or perhaps in one of them, thus reducing the load. The rest of the players are currently drowning in the burden of minutes of play.

John DiBattolomeo and Yuval Sussman

are expected to return to action a few weeks later.

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What will?

Bender (Photo: Danny Maron)

5.

And if that's not enough, then the Maccabi Tel Aviv game schedule becomes a little more complex in the coming week with the entry of the Israeli league games.

Together with last night's game, Maccabi will complete seven games in 16 days, after long weeks in which it played one game a week.



The Yellows will not be able to rest for too long, when tomorrow (Saturday, 18:00, Sport 5) they will meet Hapoel Eilat in their first game in the league, as part of the fourth round.

On Monday, she will play in the first round of the State Cup against Maccabi Ashdod from the national team, with Yannis Sapropoulos expected to divide the minutes between all eight foreigners who will register for the team's games in the local framework.



After the game in Ashdod, the critical game against Zalgiris will take place in the eighth round of the Euroleague.

Three days later, Maccabi will go to Herzliya for another league game that will open a week of two away games in the Euroleague - on Wednesday against Real Madrid and on Friday against Valencia.

  • Euroleague 2020/21

    Group

    Mash

    Netz

    A.

    Hp

    Gates

    Nk

    1

    Barcelona

    7

    6

    0

    1

    505-568

    13

    2

    Zalgiris Kaunas

    6

    5

    0

    1

    447-481

    11

    3

    Olympiacos Piraeus

    7

    4

    0

    3

    520-538

    11

    4

    Bayern Munich

    6

    4

    0

    2

    474-485

    10

    5

    Fenerbahce / Ulker

    6

    3

    0

    3

    434-448

    9

    6

    CSKA Moscow

    6

    3

    0

    3

    479-476

    9

    7

    Anadolu Zero

    6

    3

    0

    3

    482-481

    9

    8

    Maccabi Tel Aviv

    7

    2

    0

    5

    572-559

    9

    9

    Valencia

    5

    3

    0

    2

    377-393

    8

    10

    Real Madrid

    6

    2

    0

    4

    493-476

    8

    11

    The red star

    5

    2

    0

    3

    392-385

    7

    12

    Basconia

    5

    2

    0

    3

    373-383

    7

    13

    Moscow Khimki

    6

    1

    0

    5

    499-461

    7

    14

    Milan

    4

    3

    0

    1

    308-321

    7

    15

    Alba Berlin

    5

    1

    0

    4

    454-377

    6

    16

    Panathinaikos Athens

    4

    2

    0

    2

    319-320

    6

    17

    Wheelerban

    4

    1

    0

    3

    321-298

    5

    18

    Zenit St. Petersburg

    3

    2

    0

    1

    214-213

    5

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