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Maccabi Tel Aviv digests: "The season is pretty lost and a month and a half of games remain"
The team does not believe how they managed to lose the game in Munich, Žižić: "We made a lot of mistakes that must not be made if you want to win such a team", and recorded a ninth loss in close games: "All the problems of the season arose again at the wrong moment, the table does not lie "
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Friday, 26 February 2021, 07:44
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All eyes on him. Wilbkin (Photo: Official website, the official website of Maccabi Tel Aviv)
1.
Maccabi Tel Aviv recorded last night (Thursday) another disappointing loss in its Euroleague season when beaten 72:70 by Bayern Munich and stayed outside with no realistic chance to qualify for the playoffs Euroleague.
Yannis Sapropoulos' team has deteriorated to a balance of 10 wins against 14 losses, and will need between the end of the season between eight and nine wins out of ten games.
Last night's game was one of the best for the Yellows this season away, until the last quarter.
After three quarters, Maccabi led 51:58, but in 9 minutes in the last quarter, it scored only 8 points and gave its opponent the advantage.
Maccabi woke up towards the end and John Dibertolomeo equalized, 18 seconds to the end.
Nick Wheeler-Bab put Bayern ahead 2 with 9 seconds left, but Scotty Wilbkin missed an opportunity to win the game on the buzzer.
Ante Žižić scored 18 points and dropped 10 rebounds, his best game in the Euroleague since the third round against Bayern Munich in the hand of Elijah, and apart from him only Wilbkin scored in double digits with 10 points.
The Yellows again did not score well off the arc with 6 threes out of 23 attempts, with the team scoring in the second half one three out of 10 attempts, missing all of its last 8 attempts from that range.
The team members sounded very disappointed at the end of the game.
"We did a great job until the last quarter, we played hard on both sides," Zizic concluded the game, "in the last quarter they played better than us, they took 16 rebounds on offense, we made a lot of small mistakes that we can not make if we want to win. "A team like Bayern, we scored 4 points in the last 50 seconds and the last ball was in our hands and we could not take advantage of it."
Angelo Cloiaro added: "We fought, we gave ourselves a great chance to win, we did not do it in the end. Unfortunately this is what happens to us all season. There is still time to fix everything."
One of the club's remaining in the country said: "For three quarters we played one of our best games this season, and then everything collapsed. It's very disappointing, it was a game we had to win, both in terms of meaning and in terms of how we looked until the decisive moments. Ours is pretty lost when there is another month and a half of games. "
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His good play was not enough.
Zizic (Photo: official website, the official website of Maccabi Tel Aviv)
2. For the
first time in a month and a half, Maccabi Tel Aviv recorded a close loss last night, when the last time it came down with a loss in a game of this kind was on January 12 at Yad Eliyahu against Olympiacos.
It was the team's ninth loss by 4 points or less, while on the other hand it wins by 4 close games.
In games that have ended with more than 5 differences, Maccabi Tel Aviv's balance sheet is actually positive - 6 wins against 5 losses.
"It's something we've been dragging with us all season, and it's actually the whole season's story," the club concluded during the night's loss in Munich, "it's true that from a certain point of the season our balance of losses and close wins has become more plausible, "The season interfered. If we were 50 percent in the close games, we would now be in a completely different situation this season."
Maccabi wondered where the team's decisive players disappeared in last night's game.
In the last quarter, Ante Žižić scored 8 of the team's 12 points, Scotty Wilbkin added 2 and John Dibertolomeo added 2 more.
Elijah Bryant, who scored 5 points in the entire game, has not scored in the last 18 minutes, and Tyler Dorsey has not scored a field goal in the entire second half.
"In the end only Scotty was there to try, and this is not the first time this has happened. All the problems of the whole season have surfaced again at the wrong moment."
Of the nine close losses this season, six losses were to teams that were recently considered as teams fighting with Maccabi for a place in the playoffs - two losses to Olympiacos, two losses to Bayern Munich, a loss to Valencia and another loss to Andulo Zero.
3. A week ago we analyzed the picture of the chances of all the teams from fifth place and below to enter the playoffs, but since then except Maccabi Tel Aviv and Olympiacos almost every other team has done its job, with Valencia increasing to do with big wins over Real Madrid and Zenit St. Petersburg and back On entering the last eight.
Maccabi Tel Aviv's chances are quite mathematical.
Eight victories may not be enough, with the Yellows lagging behind all the teams that will eventually enter the playoffs, and by the end of the season they can expect games against the elite of the Euroleague - Barcelona and CSKA Moscow, along with other difficult games.
"Until there is no chance, no one will shoot A white flag, "the club said," but the table tells the exact story of this season.
She is not lying, if we do not enter the playoffs, we were not robbed, if we do not enter the playoffs it is our fault. "
Completely gone.
Dorsey (Photo: official website, the official website of Maccabi Tel Aviv)
4.
Maccabi Tel Aviv landed at first light at Ramon Airport near Eilat and from there moved by bus to the southern city where the players will rest and train for the game against Hapoel Eilat on Saturday (18:20, live broadcast on Sport5).
Omri Caspi, who got his first minutes after a month and a half of downtime due to a stomach virus, is expected to get more minutes as well as TJ Klein who has not dressed in Euroleague games so far.
After the game in Eilat, Maccabi will return to the center to prepare for two home games in the Euroleague during the next week - the first game against CSKA Moscow on Tuesday and the second against Valencia on Thursday.
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