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Maccabi Tel Aviv is desperate: "Luck goes with the good ones, so we are probably not good enough"
After another close loss, this time to Milan at the end of extra time, the Yellows are starting to see the distance from the playoffs increase.
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Friday, 27 November 2020, 07:45
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1.
The disappointing start of Maccabi Tel Aviv continued last night (Thursday) when the Yellows lost at home 86:85 to Milan after extra time and deteriorated to a balance of three wins against eight losses.
Last night's loss was Maccabi's third in five home games at Yad Eliyahu this season, after the team lost only once in the home court last season.
The game was fickle and weird.
Milan ran away to Maccabi in the second quarter with a 1:18 run to a 35:46 advantage in the half, but the Yellows responded and came back mainly thanks to Elijah Bryant, Scotty Wilbkin and Dragon Bender.
In the last quarter, Maccabi could have taken the lead many times, but missed no less than 9 opportunities to do so until it managed to take the lead and go up to 66:70, 28 seconds to go.
At this point Kevin Panther managed to score a three with a foul by John Dibertolomeo who returned to play, equalizing the score.
Scotty Wilbkin missed a three and the game went into overtime.
14 seconds before the end of overtime, Wilbkin gave Maccabi a one-point advantage from the penalty line, but Malcolm Delaney scored a big basket, giving the Reds their first victory at Yad Eliyahu since December 1987.
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Frustrated, and one can understand why.
Dorsey (Photo: Danny Maron)
At the end of the game, the people of Maccabi Tel Aviv looked disappointed, with the one who hurried to pick up the players being coach Yannis Sapropoulos, when he also told the players in the locker room that he was proud of them for the war they presented throughout the match.
"I think everyone reacts to losses differently, it's hard for all of us, a hard start to the season," Scotty Wilbkin summed up the feelings and reactions of his teammates after the game and after the recent losses, "You never know how to react to loss after game after game like this. Next, improve the little things and finally win those games we are losing this season. "
By the way Wilbkin rejected the contention that someone else might have to be allowed to take the last shot.
Oz Blazer added: "It's worrying, we keep believing, feeling like every time one decision is missing, one stop. They scored a very hard basket. I no longer know whether to laugh or cry, the only thing left is to hope we get some luck we are missing. "Yannis told us it's just the beginning, and we can change the season, we just need that little spark that will give us the confidence."
One of the team members added: "We talk about the luck we lack, but the sentence says that luck goes with the good ones, and we are probably not good enough. Every evening like this, every such loss only brings us closer to the feeling that it will be difficult to get something positive out of this season."
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Can't believe it slipped out of their hands.
Yannis and Maccabi (Photo: Danny Maron)
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Along with the good ability of Bryant who scored 17 points and added 9 rebounds, Wilbkin who added 17 points and 6 assists, Othello Hunter who scored 14 points and dropped 7 rebounds and Dragon Bender who scored 8 points and dropped 8 rebounds, recorded some disappointing Maccabi players.
Tyler Dorsey continued his weak ability with 4 points, alongside 3 rebounds and 3 assists, and after committing his fifth offense kicked in the chair and went down for a few moments to the locker room.
Chris Jones contributed 6 points, but also 5 turnovers against one assist.
Ante Žižić, who injured his knee during the game, scored 4 points with 2 of 9 from the field and added 4 rebounds.
"If we lose confidence it will be our biggest problem, we can not lower our heads now, with how hard it is, these are very difficult losses. We have to move on to the next game, and hope that in the end we will see the learning. In the end we will be fine and get what we want." , Oz tried to calm down with a laser.
But Maccabi Tel Aviv is worried about the ability of the back line.
"To think what would have happened if Dibertolomeo was not ready to play anymore, we would have been defeated here," said one of the team members, "It can not be ignored that Jones and Dorsey are not in good shape, fail to get into the role they are supposed to fill right now, and that hurts us. ".
The team continues to examine the player market, while at the same time there is uncertainty about Dragon Bender and his possibility of leaving for the NBA.
Bender holds an exit option that will expire in about a month, while at the same time Maccabi are satisfied with his recent progress and believe that he is finally getting into things.
The club believes that a number of players will be ejected from training camps in the NBA and it will be possible to add one or two players to the roster, in parallel with the final return of DiBetrolomeo and Caspi to fitness and the return of Yuval Sussman who is close to returning to the floor.
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3.
Last night's game against Milan marked the third point of the Euroleague season for Maccabi Tel Aviv, as it finds itself at a pretty serious distance from entering the playoffs.
Next week, the surprising Red Star Belgrade will arrive next to Eliyahu, before Maccabi embarks on a streak of three away games, two of them against the strong Basconia and Barcelona, which leads the factory table.
It will close the round with games against Panathinaikos and Zenit St. Petersburg in the hands of Elijah, with the Russians still not losing this season away from home.
"It's more realistic to turn the season around," Scotty Wilbkin said last night, "in some of the games we lost there were mental things, in some of the games we were unlucky."
But despite that, and despite the fact that Yannis Sapropoulos has repeatedly said in recent games that the team will be able to turn the season around, the team fears that if he can not change in the near future in the results, the distance will be too significant to return to the playoffs.
Even before the game against Milan, it was estimated that if they managed to finish the round with 8 victories, their situation would be good, but now the task does not seem simple at all, "We need at least 3 victories by the end of the round to have a chance to continue," said one Maccabi official. "Everything is less than that, and the business is pretty lost."
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