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Yannis Sapropoulos: "We did not have the opening conditions of the other teams in the Euroleague" - Walla! sport

2021-03-03T14:31:21.666Z


Ahead of the game against Valencia (Thursday, 21:05, Sport 5), the Maccabi Tel Aviv coach analyzes the difficulties of the Yellows this season and understands that the chances of advancing to the playoffs are low. Still he declares: "I have fought for everything in my life, and I intend to do so again this time. The challenge is to face the difficulty"


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Yannis Sapropoulos: "We did not have the opening conditions of the other teams in the Euroleague"

Ahead of the game against Valencia (Thursday, 21:05, Sport 5), the Maccabi Tel Aviv coach analyzes the difficulties of the Yellows this season and understands that the chances of advancing to the playoffs are low.

Still he declares: "I have fought for everything in my life, and I intend to do so again this time. The challenge is to face the difficulty"

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Will the chance be maintained?

Wilbkin (Photo: Official Website, Valencia Official Website)

With chances ranging from weak to theoretical, tomorrow (Thursday, 21:05, live broadcast on Sports 5), Maccabi Tel Aviv will host Valencia in the 28th round of the Euroleague.

The Yellows come into the game with a streak of four Euroleague losses, the longest under Yannis Sapropoulos, and with 10 wins from 25 games.

The Spanish rival, who has never won at Yad Eliyahu, has a positive balance of 14 wins against 13 losses.



Despite the fact that abroad Maccabi Tel Aviv is broadcasting that there is still a chance, albeit minimal, to qualify for the playoffs in the Euroleague, the team admits that hope has already vanished.

The club are building on the fact that the players want to save some of their honor that has been damaged in the current losing streak, and will want to interrupt it and end the season in a much better way.



"We are ready to fight tomorrow," Yannis Sapropoulos declared in the run-up to the game. "We have to keep fighting.

Our opponent has a lot of good players who can score at a high pace.

They score a lot of points per game, and compared to the previous game we need to be more stable.

We need to get organized properly. "



On the minimal chances left for the playoffs, the coach said:" I fight for everything in my life, that's my character and that's what I intend to do even now, no matter what our situation in the table.

We intend to fight to the end.

In the last game we managed to make a comeback, but we have to learn from our mistakes.

Our challenge is to face the difficulties we have now.



"" We have to go back forever.

When you are in a big club like Maccabi Tel Aviv, you have to make every effort to win every game.

We are still playing in the Euroleague this season, and after the season is over we will analyze what did not work properly.

In the end, in previous seasons we relied on a very homely hall, and this year there is no audience.

It changes everything. "



Sapropoulos analyzed the Yellows' problems." Some of our players are exhausted.

Some went through a very long season last season, playing while the Corona risked their lives.

Half of our team has been playing for two years now, with a three-week break.

It's not normal.

Other groups had different conditions.

Milan started training in early July, for example, and had two months to train before the start of the season.

We did not have the same opening conditions as other teams in the Euroleague. "

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Intends to fight.

Yannis Sapropoulos (Photo: Danny Maron)

After the loss to CSKA Moscow, Sapropolos talked about the fact that in the bad minutes of the offensive his players also collapsed defensively and let the opponent escape to a very high difference. Maccabi Tel Aviv know that if they want to return to the winning track they must do so first through the unstable attack. braiding Maccabi 85.3 points per game, and losses, excluding overtime, it stands at 73.3 points, 12 points lower. defending the differences are much smaller - Maccabi Tel Aviv absorbs victories two points less than the losses.



Valencia, reach Tel Aviv today in Istanbul after the loss Landolo zero, You know a loss to Maccabi eliminates almost certainly the chances to qualify. orange, stole the first game in Spain with victory in 80:82 thanks basket triumph of Sam van Rossum, lost both games they arrived in Israel, as in the third game they did not show up and were disqualified.



the group of Jaume Ponsernau are leading four players, with the best fit being Nikola Klinic, who won the February MVP title in the Euroleague. The Serbian is recording 10.2 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game this season. Other leading players are Slovenian Kalman Perplic.

12.2 points, Montenegro center Bojan Dubleevich with 10.7 points and 5.6 rebounds per game and American Mike Toby with 9.3 points per game.

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