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Omri Caspi: "I do not know many teams that had our shortage of players"
Maccabi Tel Aviv hopes to take another step towards the playoffs when they host Olympiacos (21:05, Sport 5), efforts to train Othello Hunter.
Dibertolomao: "Do not think the absence of the audience is an excuse."
And also: When are the team preparing to get vaccinated for Corona after Sandy Cohen became infected?
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Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 06:51
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Tonight (Tuesday, 21:05, live broadcast in Sports 5), Maccabi Tel Aviv will advance to the 19th round of the Euroleague when it hosts Olympiacos at Yad Eliyahu.
The Yellows come into the game with a balance of eight wins versus ten losses, and want for the first time since the fifth round to approach one win distance from a balanced balance.
Maccabi is making great efforts to train Othello Hunter, who has not trained with the team in the last two weeks since his eye injury.
The team estimates that even if Hunter can play, it will be for a few minutes, and that most of the burden of the game under the basket will fall on Ante Zizic, who will have to fight the Reds' inside players.
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Caspi (Photo: Danny Maron)
The team know that apart from improving the balance, the game against Olympiacos may be part of their direct fight against the Greeks for promotion to the playoffs, "I do not think looking at who we are fighting for the run, but know we two games from 50 percent, feel it in the air," he said Omri Caspi last night ahead of the game, "There are many more games, we just started the second round, if matters of vaccinations progress quickly, then we can get our crowd back in about a month. We started the process after Real Madrid away in my opinion, we have significantly improved our defense, Things look better for us. "
"I do not know how much the fact that we lost close games played in our favor, it gives us confidence that we can win, probably in full staff," Caspi continued, "I do not know many teams that had the shortage of players we had this year, there are many more games to play. "It shows that there are qualities in the team, we always fight to the end. It gives a lot of confidence, but it does not mean anything. There are many more games."
"I feel good day after day, as a team we are on the right track, we have been playing better basketball lately, playing better basketball lately, we should be happy with our progress lately," said captain John Dibertolomeo ahead of the game, referring to the fact that the games The latter against the Greeks were very close, "I expect another close game. We have to start it the right way."
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Žižić (Photo: Udi Citiat,.)
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Maccabi, Abu was encouraged by the team's ability in the victory over Alba Berlin, mainly by the fact that the team knew how to go for a long run that ended the game.
"We knew that Alba is a team that plays a lot, pushes the ball to 90 and something points in the game, it was important for us to reduce the amount of points it scores, but it did not detract from our desire to run and take advantage of situations on the open field," Omri Caspi said. "I feel natural to run for bursts, but sometimes we have to run the orderly attack. This is something we do need, I believe in punishing teams, in a fast game you can punish, but you also have to know how to control the pace."
At the same time, the team also aims to break their unflattering home balance this season, four wins from eight games, while even teams that are not known for their away ability until the season, such as Bayern Munich and Milan, celebrated victories at Yad Eliyahu.
"Our goal is to defend at home, I do not think that there is no crowd here is an excuse, our crowd gives us a lot of energy, most teams face it. I think our crowd gives us an advantage over other pitches," said John DiBartolommeo in response to the home balance .
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Dibertolomao (Photo: Udi Citation,.)
The Yellows announced last night that Sandy Cohen was found positive in a corona test performed on him after his return from the United States and will stay in solitary confinement until confirmation that he has recovered from the virus.
Cohen was released about two weeks ago by the professional team to stay in the United States with his young son who was born last year, and he returned to Israel last Tuesday.
Since then, he has not trained with Maccabi, with the team's manager Ami Bitton making sure that he does not come into contact with the team until he has passed a corona examination.
The test results came last night, as well as negative results of all the other players on the team who do two corona tests a week according to the Euroleague protocol.
"It is clear to us that such cases can happen, it happens everywhere in Europe and it has also reached us," Maccabi said yesterday, "We are very strict about the rules, but sometimes that is not enough."
Like the other sports teams in Israel, the Yellows have not been vaccinated at the moment, despite their many trips to Europe.
Maccabi recently said that after the vaccines begin to be distributed more freely to the public and after the vaccinations are given to the preferred populations at risk, the players and team members will be vaccinated.
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