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An older and limited team, but aggressive and trained, revealed how vulnerable Maccabi Tel Aviv is. The obsession around Scotty Wilbkin continued, and the puzzling time-out that drained him all


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Ahrela Weisberg

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Anyone hear me?

The night Yannis Sapropoulos came out of the consensus

A limited, but aggressive and trained team, revealed the depth of Maccabi Tel Aviv's troubles.

The obsession with Scotty Wilbkin continued, the Israelis were left in shock at the UN, Jaylen Reynolds and James Nanley illustrate how squeaky the attack is - and the puzzling timeout that drained it all

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Friday, 08 October 2021, 10:45

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For the first time since he landed and became a crowd favorite, questions were heard loudly about him in the stands yesterday.

Yannis Sapropoulos (Photo: Danny Maron)

Wilbkin 3 of 4, Maccabi Tel Aviv 1 of 12

Maccabi Tel Aviv tried.

She really tried.

In the first offense of the game against the Red Star Belgrade, she even put a ball inside for Jaylen Reynolds.

And Scotty Wilbkin?

This time, the Yellows were confident he would not play one against five, and coach, and another seven on the bench.

Five and a half minutes passed until he took a first shot to the basket.



So Maccabi tried.

So what?

She finished the first four minutes with four fouls, five losses and a 10-0 deficit.

The Serbs wanted to make sure Wilbkin would not "do Bayern Munich to them".

So in their attacks, they sent Stefan to Zarevic to walk with him in a post-up, and on defense - every time the star in yellow got a ball - he got a muscular and aggressive guard, and sometimes even two.



So Maccabi tried.

So what?

13 minutes into the game, she stood at 13 points.

Nine of them were hit by Wilbkin, two more came from his assist, and there was also one basket that was literally hit without him.

While he hit 3 of 4 from the field, his other nine teammates got stuck on 1 of 12, and the Red Star had already escaped to a 15-point lead.

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In each photo of Scotty Wilbkin from yesterday, you will find in the background two guards from the Red Star (Photo: Danny Maron)

Then came the moment.

The annual moment, it should be noted.

Yannis Sapropoulos called a timeout, and consciously, or not, a new-old conclusion was born: once again Maccabi Tel Aviv is dependent on Angelo Cloiaro.

The one who tends not to count at the beginning of each season, and soon becomes a key player.

In 35 seconds he scored nine straight points, raising Elijah's hand in the air.



But the shrine landed quickly and returned to Menora Mivtachim Beach.

The Red Star is a limited and not particularly athletic team, with a not-so-high glass ceiling;

Whoever was supposed to be her main firepower, Austin Hollins, didn’t even play, and she even appeared with one stranger.

And not just any stranger, but Nate Walters, who in half a season in yellow managed to brand himself forever as Wilbkin's ideal partner.

Not just a foreigner, but one that Maccabi chose to give up.

Since the record advantage against Bayern, Maccabi Tel Aviv has been defeated 123: 95 at home.

Keenan Evans (Photo: Danny Maron)

2. Numbers reminiscent of the season of the five coaches

In Belgrade this year we built an old and experienced team.

And even if she's older, she's still strong, elbow, aggressive, intense and a few more words that end in fibrous.

And against soft teams like Maccabi Tel Aviv - at least Maccabi of the season opener, because Corona and that - need no more to completely disrupt the opponent's game.



Zevzda had another advantage: at least last night, she was a trained team.

Since Maccabi marched with its record advantage over Bayern, 20:37 last week, it has been defeated by the Bavarians and Serbs with a result of 123: 95, over 64 and a half minutes.

This is not a mistake: 123: 95.

She scored 95 points, and she scored no less than 123.

In the hall.



Although the Yellows avoided breaking their historic negative shooting record in Yad Eliyahu (54 points against Olympiacos in the 1999/2000 season), they closed a streak of two home games in which they failed to reach 70.

This happened to them the previous time in the 2017 coaches season.

Even then, by the way, one of the two rivals was the Red Star.

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Despite the quarrels with Trinkieri, he has something to miss.

Jaylen Reynolds Disappointing and Disappointed (Photo: Danny Maron)

3. Worth 87% of penalties, and has not visited this season on the line

Maccabi Tel Aviv brought Reynolds back to its ranks this season; When he wore yellow, two years ago, he did not have time to make a mark - but last year he was one of the most effective attacking chins in the Euroleague. Bayern worked for him and for him, and he fit in perfectly with Andrea Trinkieri's method. Despite the quarrels between them, the American actor seems to have something to miss.



One of the amazing figures Reynolds presented last season was his penalty percentage. Although chins are doomed to disaster in this area, the man is 87.5% accurate, 75 out of 86. He visited the line once every 10.4 minutes on average, and made good use of his advantage.



And in Tel Aviv, the place where domestic players (not called Othello Hunter and / or Sophocles Schurzanitis) have not grown grass for a decade?

In Tel Aviv, Reynolds has a little more difficulty.

Unlike his days at Bayern, he did not miss a penalty - but it happened mostly because he did not reach the line even once.

In 41 minutes, over two games, the leading chin in yellow did not squeeze a single foul on a shot, or after the boundary of team fouls.

Aggressiveness, intensity and more words that end in bits.

Red Star Belgrade celebrates (Photo: Danny Maron)

And if the Reynolds case does not illustrate how much the team game at Maccabi does not work, then what will illustrate it? Or, here's another example. James Nanley. The forward arrived in Israel armed with an impressive 48.5 percent for three throughout his career and is ranked fourth in the history of the Euroleague (99 out of 204). The 100th three-pointer sniped already in his first minute in yellow, but has since stuck on 1 of 9.



It's not just a matter of shooting ability or of fine defense on the part of the opponent. Guy Panini, one who has experienced a thing or two in the small forward position that is well known to Nanley, once explained how one can see through him the state of the team: "Once the team wants and the exercises work, I will get my shots and do the things I am good at. Once everyone does what "I want him to be the last one to look good." This seems to be true this time as well.



Wilbkin, then, is not supposed to carry the group alone (and as long as he does, she will run into a glass ceiling). Reynolds feels completely alone, and Nanelli is unable - in the meantime - to produce for himself what he knew how to do so well at Fenerbahce and Olympia Milan. Yiftach Ziv and Roman Sorkin are still in tough training, reserved for the Rockies in the Euroleague, and Derek Williams is caught giving physical fitness, but at least can be helped in mitigating circumstances.



All of these things are true for now, and of course we are in the second cycle, and in the end it is only one loss, and everything else can and should change.

The convenient placement summoned Maccabi Tel Aviv to five home games in the first seven rounds, and only one of the candidates to win the Euroleague will arrive in Israel in the next two months;

But if you do not maintain the home team, and do not avoid unnecessary slips against rivals from the bottom, this game board may become a burden and a burden on the Israeli champion.

If she accumulates another loss, and another loss, she will come to meetings with the really strong teams when she is already carrying a stepping load on her back.

Is in the midst of a Euroleague internship.

Yiftach Ziv with Sapropoulos (Photo: Danny Maron)

4. How did he have a timeout?

And where is Sapropolus in this whole story? Naturally, the coach who arrives for the fourth season at Maccabi has an expiration date; Since the great success in 2020, which was halted due to the outbreak of the plague, it has been too long, and the memory of it has been dimmed. If the Greek does not manage to produce a winning streak soon, he may see traffic jams at the exit gates again while the players are still on the floor, and hear contemptuous whistles for his team in the relegations to timeouts. Like yesterday, the night he apparently came out of the consensus; For the first time since landing in Tel Aviv and becoming a crowd favorite, questions were heard aloud in the stands about things related to a specific and especially late night time.



Two timeouts yesterday illustrated the problematic nature of Sapropoulos' game management.

With a delay of 51:37, with 57 seconds to go until the end of the third quarter, he was called in to slightly stop the Serbian flow and flow.

When the players returned, a rather strange quintet was found on the field, to say the least: Ziv, John Dibertolomao, Cloiaro, Oz Blazer and Sorkin;

Instead of pressing the pedal, and trying to build mini momentum in the few seconds left, the coach preferred to give air to the key players, placed the vehicle unable to produce a basket and deepened the pit when it reached the fourth quarter at minus 17.



There was another timeout, somewhat puzzling, 53 seconds to the end.

So one might ask why Sapropolus needed this time-out, when the confrontation is already at the heart of the junk time, but the more interesting question is different: how did he even have a time-out left at this late moment?

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