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Sapropoulos: "The audience understands that the situation made it difficult for us this season in the Euroleague"

The Maccabi Tel Aviv coach tried to explain the failure in the Euroleague after the league victory against Ness Ziona: "Sounds like excuses, but this is a different season"

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Saturday, 13 March 2021, 22:27 Updated: 22:35

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Tried to explain the failure in the Euroleague.

Sapropoulos (Photo: Danny Maron)

Yannis Sapropoulos stayed tonight (Saturday) long minutes after Maccabi Tel Aviv's 74:96 against Nes Ziona to thank the yellow fans who encouraged him.

The Greek coach.

"The crowd understands that this season's situation is different from any other season," said Sapropoulos. "It sounds like an excuse, but all the things that happened to us made us start behind in the Euroleague. We finished last season on July 31, you might say these are excuses, but those are reasons. It affects us all season, and we have no fans here. Maccabi, Panathinaikos and Zalgiris are building on their fans both financially and the pressure they put on the opponent.

"These teams are more affected. We could have done a better job, I take responsibility first, but this is the first time there is such a situation. It is difficult to maintain stability in ability. We could have done a better job, too. I am responsible, I am not afraid to take responsibility, but I think the people understand that this is a different season, a strange season and they support us. We tell them the truth and do not lie. We try to fight in all the games, sometimes it does not happen. You see a big difference between teams this season in the Euroleague. That is. Maccabi fans understand basketball. "

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Sapropoulos went on to say: "It was very important that there were 1,000 spectators here, we also wore the jerseys of us, all the names of the fans who supported us. We are glad we had a good game and returned to the crowd, it was a completely different feeling to play in front of 1,000 spectators. I hope the number It's going to go up as time goes on. We had a very good game against a very good team. It has great athletes and if you underestimate them, they can hurt you. This one, we played very well on defense, we closed all the areas, we had good help on defense.

"We had a good game in reading situations on defense.

Dragon protects the color excellently, and it's not just his body, but the fact that he is smart and reads the tactics and is in the right place at the right time.

He was very important to us today.

I believe that as long as we play in the Euroleague, and it is impossible to get to the playoffs without a miracle, we do not always find the motivation.

We are Maccabi and have to fight.

No matter what happens, we will have to play all the games and see at the end what happens.

Recently Scotty Wilbkin was tired and we played with two leaders to help him.

Chris Jones has good momentum, and we use his abilities. "

Ness Ziona coach Brad Greenberg said:" Maccabi Tel Aviv played a great second half, kept us strong and scored threes.

We had a good first half, but 20 minutes is not enough against them.

We had a hard time with the rotation, we play with 8-7 players, we have a game or two a week, our players are strong enough to withstand it.

I want to get more players involved.

Selden plays more in control, is aggressive and takes shots he gets.

He's more defensively defensive, he's had strong games lately and he's starting to find himself.

Maccabi is a big team, and you don't see how hard it is to score against them in the standing game.

"Jerome Myansi had a hard time scoring in front of such tall players."

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