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Made history: Danny Abdia was selected 9th in the draft
Winning the Draft: The Chance Behind Abdia's Fall for the Ninth Selection
If Danny Abdia had hoped to be selected in the top 5 in the draft, he was disappointed.
If Danny Abdia had hoped to compete in the playoffs as early as next season, in a team that would believe in him and give him minutes, he was given a great opportunity.
Now all he has left is to take advantage of Wall and Bill's dedication, and do good things with the available situations he will get
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Danny Abdia
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Eran Soroka
Thursday, November 19, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
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David Blatt talks about Danny Abdia's draft
Danny Abdia was selected in the NBA Draft (courtesy of the sports channel. NBA broadcasts and Danny Abdia on the sports channel)
Good morning Israel.
Tonight you have a player selected in a very high place in the draft.
This is a rare privilege, and it is not clear when in the future we will have another such thing.
What it means?
That we are now all fans of Washington (a team that won one championship, more than 40 years ago, and later lost to Maccabi Tel Aviv)?
That from now on we will all curse Scott Brooks when he takes Danny down to the bench for losing a ball, or Troy Brown when he takes minutes in position?
Probably.
That politicians will try to catch a ride (by the way, for your information, they pronounce it Deni) with White House mentions, rabbis with a fondness for the media will issue halakhic rulings that are allowed to be watched even on Saturday mornings and celebrities will understand that his name needs to be mentioned to be trendy?
There seems to be no choice.
So advice to all these and these and these: patience.
Few are the players selected in the draft and became superstars in the first season.
For most of them, this did not happen in a second.
Apparently the first time he keeps LeBron James, LeBron will get caught.
Even in a second.
The most important thing for the new Washington player, and more importantly for all of us, is to be patient.
Danny of November 2020 is a better player than Danny of August 2019 who took the European Championship with the reserve and probably also better than Danny of August 2020 who took the Israeli Championship with Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Danny on December 22, 2020 will be an even better player.
Players are not selected in the draft solely on the basis of what and who they are now - although even now Abdia is an excellent player - but on the basis of what they can be.
And Abdia can be a special player.
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One can be disappointed with the fall from 4/5 places and the financial loss of millions of dollars (come on, they were not ours anyway), but if Abdia wanted a team that wanted to win and compete in the playoffs - Washington is quite like that.
The seasons in the lottery have allowed her to give a wide opportunity and many minutes of play to young players like Troy Brown, Roy Hachimura and Thomas Bryant, who will join one of the best back lines in the league - John Wall and Bradley Bill.
Wall returns from long injuries with lots of hunger, the Bill Wizards have now defended from every guard and unequivocally announced he is not for sale.
With a new management that has been waiting a long time for this opportunity, Abdia gets a chance to prove that he really is a winner.
In general, most teams are happy about their draft picks - on the other hand, the Wizards did everything to highlight how much the fact that Abdia was vacant in ninth place made them happy.
"Tommy Shepherd was so insane that I thought he was going to run like Carl Lewis," coach Scott Brooks said.
Shepherd, who came from the worlds of analytics, appointed, among other things, head of athlete care - Daniel Medina - who worked for a decade for an anonymous football team called Barcelona, recruited former NFL man Sashi Brown to a senior position and decided to go on a diverse thinking team to return the Wizards to the top.
Abdia is a very important link in this mission.
With two ball carriers like Wall and Bill, Abdia will have to be less of a playmaker off the wing than he secretly hoped.
On the other hand, with a chin that can score well from the outside like Bryant, and when the reports are that Hachimura also greatly improved his shooting from three - Abdia also has the option to play between highs.
And to take the load off Wall and Bill, hopefully the three-point shooting will come in, because he will have free situations and a lot.
Brown showed signs of progress last season, but the Wizards' rotation in the forward positions is one that can be highlighted relatively easily.
To be successful in the NBA, Danny Abdia will have to have many things that Israel loves - enterprising, cheeky, original, creative.
But Danny is also a lot of things that Israel has less valued in recent years, like long-term thinking, investing in infrastructure and foundations, the ability not to be blinded by dizzying success and not to be depressed by failure.
Were it not for these qualities, the psychic work ethic, the ability to learn and understand the game, he would not have come this far.
Abdia will enjoy his new friends.
Bill and Bryant (Photo: GettyImages)
In Washington, Danny was not chosen to take twenty shots per night, but to become an integral part of a winning team.
And that's what he wants to do, and he needs to do, and if anything can be learned from his improvement curve in recent years - Danny Abdia can do.
Israel has a new ambassador, in a team that is storming the playoffs again, and as will happen this winter in a slightly more famous building that is not far from the Wizards' home hall - even in this case, DC citizens can no longer wait for the new era.
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