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Yannis Sapropoulos: "I have said many times that this year is different from any other year"

The Maccabi Tel Aviv coach spoke at a press conference ahead of Alba Berlin (Thursday, 21:00, Sport 5) and referred to the Corona influence: "I'm not young, we risk ourselves to do the job we love."

Hunter will continue to be absent

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Wednesday, 06 January 2021, 12:14

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Will miss a third game in a row.

Othello Hunter (Photo: Bernie Ardov)

Maccabi Tel Aviv will open the second round of the Euroleague tomorrow (Thursday) when it will be hosted at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin with Alba Berlin (21:00, Sport 5).

The Yellows come into the game after the loss in the last round of the Euroleague to Zenit St Petersburg and hold a balance of seven wins against ten losses, just like the German rival, which won last night in the 91:95 rematch over Basconia.

Maccabi goes into the game after meeting the tasks that came after the loss to the Russian team - a victory over Hapoel Jerusalem in the league and Hapoel Tel Aviv in the quarterfinals of the cup.

The team attaches great importance to the game against Alba, after which they will hold three consecutive home games, all by the way during the closure that will be imposed on the State of Israel starting on Thursday at midnight.

Othello Hunter will be absent from the squad for the third game in a row due to an eye injury, and he may return to play in the back-to-back games next week.

Those who will return to the squad are Tyler Dorsey and Chris Jones who did not dress up for games in the local setting.

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Great importance is attached to the game.

Yannis Sapropoulos (Photo: Danny Maron)

"The game is against a very good team, and even though it has missing players, you have seen how well it can play," said Yannis Sapropoulos.

"The fact that they lack players makes them play stronger, also the disadvantage of the coach. For us it is important to fight every attack. Alba is a good team that improves a lot. I am satisfied with how we train, the players are more connected to the team. This is how we built the team in the summer. "We have good potential for the future."

"I have said many times here that this year is different from any other year," the Greek added.

"We compete and want to win titles and play in all settings, but everyone has to understand, including the media, that this is not real basketball. It is not easy to play in an empty hall, we forget it, talk about results, forget we are in the middle of an epidemic. We fly to Germany and there Problems, we fly all this time and endanger ourselves to do our job that we love, to play basketball.At the end of the day what is important is to stay safe for us and our family.I am 53, I am not young, Alba's coach for example in isolation.The important thing for me is That everyone in Israel will be safe, and that there will be fewer cases in the future. This closure will help. We are at 8,500 verified a day, that's a large number. We need to protect our family, our neighbors and friends, this is how we should behave with this epidemic. "After the people who deserve to get the vaccines get it, we will also get it because we are flying and we also have a certain risk."

Will continue to be absent.

Hunter (Photo: Danny Maron)

Alba has a long list of injured and Corona patients, who did not prevent her from winning last night and also a victory in the German league over Bayern Munich on Sunday.

Among those missing are Luke Sikma, Peyton Reason, Nils Gipay, Marcus Erickson and Jonas Matiask.

Among the players who will be available for Aito Rances recently stands out Jason Granger, who scored 19 points against Basconia, averaging 8.1 points in the Euroleague.

Other leading players are the American Ben Lamers, the Italian Simona Puntakio and the Germans Tim Schneider, Madoud Lou and Johannes Yemen.

Tomorrow's game will be the 14th between the teams in the Euroleague with the balance standing at 1:12 for Maccabi Tel Aviv, which won all six of its visits to Berlin.

Alba's only victory over Maccabi came in the top 16 of the 2014/15 season, when the German team managed to beat the Yellows 59:66 in Yad Eliyahu.

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• Euroleague 2020/21

  	Group	Mash	Netz	A.	Hp	Gates	Nk
  1	CSKA Moscow	17	14	0	3	1323-1441	31
  2	Real Madrid	17	12	0	5	1318-1403	29
  3	Bayern Munich	17	11	0	6	1290-1351	28
  4	Barcelona	17	11	0	6	1252-1367	28
  5	Valencia	17	10	0	7	1370-1392	27
  6	Zalgiris Kaunas	17	10	0	7	1314-1355	27
  7	Basconia	17	8	0	9	1294-1333	25
  8	Zenit St. Petersburg	15	10	0	5	1089-1137	25
  9	Milan	16	9	0	7	1288-1307	25
  10	Anadolu Zero	17	8	0	9	1319-1302	25
  11	Fenerbahce / Ulker	17	7	0	10	1340-1248	24
  12	Olympiacos Piraeus	16	8	0	8	1280-1275	24
  13	Maccabi Tel Aviv	17	7	0	10	1325-1330	24
  14	Alba Berlin	17	7	0	10	1419-1321	24
  15	The red star	17	6	0	11	1331-1274	23
  16	Wheelerban	16	5	0	11	1265-1196	21
  17	Panathinaikos Athens	16	5	0	11	1336-1277	21
  18	Moscow Khimki	17	2	0	15	1518-1362	19

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