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Maccabi Tel Aviv criticizes the players' attitude: "Just stop playing"

The team was badly surprised by the players' ability in the loss to Gilboa / Galil, and understands: "This is the worst time to lose a game like this."

Yiftach Ziv, who has not been a partner in the entire last quarter: "This is our black sheep, I experienced it from the other side. We will learn from it."

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Monday, 18 October 2021, 06:50

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Big disappointment in Maccabi Tel Aviv after the 87:83 loss last night (Sunday) to Hapoel Gilboa / Galil in Gan Ner.

The Yellows recorded their first loss in the local framework, while Gilboa achieved its first victory in an official game after losing in every previous game by a double-digit margin, and it was Maccabi Tel Aviv that they managed to win.

Roman Sorkin led the team with 16 points, with Keenan Evans and Jaylen Reynolds scoring 13 and 12 points, respectively.

Yiftach Ziv scored 7 points and gave up 9 assists against the team he played for the previous two years.

The Maccabi people looked very disappointed at the end of the game.

"There's no good time to lose a game, but if there's not a good time, it's now," the team said on the way back from Gan Ner. Until yesterday, it is impossible to explain at all what happened to us. "

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"There is no explanation for that."

Jake Cohen, James Nanali and Keenan Evans, last night (Photo: Lilach Weiss)

Yiftach Ziv was sent to the press conference minutes after coach Yannis Sapropoulos explained that the players were unfocused.

"At Maccabi Tel Aviv you want to win every game, and we did not plan to lose here. We will learn from that as well. Every team that comes to play against Maccabi Tel Aviv comes with a special motivation, you want to prove yourself and want to show that you are worth more," said Ziv. Reached the Yellows.

"I experienced it from the other side, Gilboa / Galil is the first sheep, Maccabi Tel Aviv has a loss every season in front of it. Congratulations to it. I moved to the other side and I am upset by this loss. We are looking at ourselves, we have an important game in the Euroleague on Thursday, we will have to learn From what was here today and to be better. "

"I have not yet digested everything that happened here today, we will have to learn from it," the guard continued, "we are a better and better team. They surprised us today, it should not happen but we will have to learn from it. Against Villarban the attack washed and things worked, today "There were more minutes and fewer minutes. We are based on defense and we conceded 87 points and that is not something we are supposed to get. We know what we have to do. Sometimes it works more and sometimes less."

• Premier League 2021/22

  Group	Mash	Netz	A.	Hp	Baskets	Nk
  1	Hapoel Holon	2	2	0	0	140-186	4
  2	Bnei Herzliya	2	2	0	0	155-167	4
  3	Hapoel Beer Sheva	1	1	0	0	69-83	2
  4	Hapoel Jerusalem	1	1	0	0	69-83	2
  5	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2	1	0	1	146-167	3
  6	Hapoel Eilat	2	1	0	1	168-183	3
  7	Hapoel Haifa	2	1	0	1	161-152	3
  8	Gilboa / Galil	2	1	0	1	166-156	3
  9	Hapoel Galil Elyon	1	0	0	1	83-69	1
  10	Hapoel Tel Aviv	2	0	0	2	172-153	2
  11	Maccabi Rishon Lezion	1	0	0	1	101-67	1
  12	Urban Ness Ziona	2	0	0	2	189-153	2

The team is expected to return to practice today ahead of the game against Panathinaikos on Thursday, when at the beginning of the training the professional team is expected to go over the game in Gan Ner and try to analyze the professional mistakes the players made on the floor.

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