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Yannis Sapropoulos on Chris Jones: "Everyone needs time. He rests and clears his head"
The Maccabi Tel Aviv coach complimented the coordinator who excelled against Bnei Herzliya: "It is not easy to play every two days and give the maximum, you have to bring your heart and your emotions."
Drucker: "We lost the bridle"
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Saturday, 20 February 2021, 22:59
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Won compliments.
Jones (Photo: Danny Maron)
For one half, Bnei Herzliya managed to stay close to Maccabi Tel Aviv, until the champion went out for a 2:25 run, flew forward and did not look back.
Ante Žižić led six players in double digits with 19 points, and now the Yellows will move on to prepare for their next league game, in two days against Urbani Nahariya.
"Today the numbers tell the story of the game," Yannis Sapropoulos concluded.
"We scored 98 points, we kept a good attacking team on 75 points. Herzliya is a team that when it wins scores 90 points. From the 15th minute we started to be aggressive, and in the last minutes of the second quarter they scored only 4 points. The way we opened the second half was critical to the final result. "We found the right option on offense, and when the difference went up to 15-20, we started playing good basketball, even better than before, but we could still perform better. Overall we controlled the game and scored 98 points with 23 assists."
The winning coach added: "In the first 15 minutes we were not as bad but not as good as we should be. It is not easy to find a pace in front of the regional when you are not scoring from the outside. We found the pace from the defense, and from that point things looked much better. "From the game on Thursday. We are excited from the moment we learned that there will be an audience on Monday, and I hope that by the end of the season there will be a lot of spectators."
On Chris Jones, who finished with 14 points and 10 assists in the absence of Scotty Wilbkin and Elijah Bryant, Sapropoulos said: "All the players need time, and this is Chris' first time playing in the Euroleague and so many games, it's not easy to be willing to play. Every two days and be hungry. It's not easy to play every two days and give the maximum, you have to bring your heart and your emotions. Learn from it, there is a process of how to be ready for every game. During the time Chris did not play he rested and cleared his head. That's why he makes decisions The good ones. "
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"Hopefully we will continue the path."
Drucker (Photo: Danny Maron)
On the other hand, Sharon Drucker concluded: "At the end of the second quarter we missed the game a bit, we should not have been 9 minutes behind in the half, we played good basketball, we knew what needed to be done. We lost balls, more than I expected we would lose, these are level differences, we will move on. "They did their best. We lost the bridle, it created a problem for us that we could not stop in time, as the game develops in the direction of 15-20 points, it is difficult to return. Hopefully we will continue the way until we get here. Playing hard and together, execute."
Max Heidegger, who was loaned from Maccabi Tel Aviv to Bnei Herzliya, commented on the game and also the guest of honor in the stands - Israel national team coach Willy Rotensteiner, who appeared at the game as a guest of the Austrian ambassador: "It was cool. "But you can not focus on it. The ambassador and Rothsteiner are friends of the family, it's nice to have you, they see me and I thank them for that."
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