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Maccabi Tel Aviv sums up the nightmare: "Abuse us, there is a price for the short rotation"
Maccabi Tel Aviv trailed by 27 points after one quarter against Olympiacos on the way to the big defeat in the Euroleague and the team is licking its wounds.
And also: Wilbkin's awful evening that went "with his head in the wall," and Dorsey's unsurprising celebration
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Yannis Sapropoulos
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Saturday, 20 November 2021, 06:45
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Doron Sheffer and Oded Katash, The Union (Photo: Danny Maron, Editing: Nir Chen)
1. Maccabi Tel Aviv suffered a painful loss last night (Friday) in its Euroleague season when it was defeated 90:73 by Olympiacos Piraeus in Greece. The Yellows recorded their fourth Euroleague loss in 11 games and their third out of five games, dropping to sixth place in the factory table.
The whole game was decided after an amazing 10 minutes in which Olympiacos ran away with an 8:35 advantage and equaled the all-time record in the Euroleague to a difference of one quarter. At the end of these 10 minutes, the difference was 0:53 in favor of the hosts who danced on the field while Yannis Sapropoulos' players looked stunned. Maccabi Tel Aviv tried to come back, shrinking to 18 points in the second quarter, but no more than that. In the last quarter, with the bench players on the field, the Yellows managed to reduce the difference to 14, but were nowhere near completing a comeback.
Almost everyone who stepped on the parquet until the last quarter was below his level. Scotty Wilbkin did not score until the second half and finished with 6 points, Keenan Evans and Derrick Williams scored 2 points each, with Williams adding a technical foul in the third quarter as he raged on the bench for a refereeing decision. James Nanley did score 14 points, but in very bad percentages, and Jaylen Reynolds and Ante Žižić did not get along with the hosts' highs. The only player who received compliments at Maccabi Tel Aviv was Roman Sorkin, who finished with 10 points and 8 rebounds, and even in the team's less good minutes he managed to be active and played strong.
"Things did not go our way from the first quarter, we chased after them the whole game," Sorkin concluded the match, "the second half was better. "Our good and play strong. It's a very high level, everyone is intense and big. We have to come focused to every game, we can win by 20 points and then lose by 20 points, everything is very dynamic and we have to be ready and leave everything on the field."
"A tough game for us, they jumped on us the start, we did not start well, we tried to react in the following quarters but we could not get ourselves out of the pit, we have to learn from that and play better against Sun," said captain John Dibertolomeo.
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2. The whole game is over after only 10 minutes.
Maccabi Tel Aviv had a hard time explaining what made them look like this with the opening, and said after the game that there were not too many hints that what happened was going to happen.
"There was a pretty good atmosphere towards the game, the motivation was high and no one underestimated, on the contrary. We knew that Olympiacos was a very good team and that we should be at our peak."
The team tried to explain what happened on the field, and here, too, could not find the words.
"At first everyone was waiting for someone to get the team involved, and Ante still managed to make a few moves, but as we continued to miss shot after shot, including some very light layups, and they started running and having fun, then we already lost confidence completely," one team member tried to explain. We were abused and did not know how to stop it. "
Returned quickly to the ground.
Wilbkin (Photo: Official Website, courtesy of Olympiacos)
3. The one who was on the roof of the world just three days ago, and returned very quickly to the ground, is Scotty Wilbkin. The Guard recorded a very weak game, and was busy in extensive parts of the game trying to get into the game. "Scotty's game is exactly the kind of day you need your star not to mess with his shooting, when the balls didn't come in, and he did just that," the team said. "He runs the game. What happened this time was completely different."
Sapropolos continued to give Wilbkin the minutes of the game in the first half, and the guard finished it without points, scoring his two threes in the second half, in which he also continued to rave. "He played with his head against the wall," Maccabi added.
One of the main questions now is whether Maccabi Tel Aviv will let Wilbkin play tomorrow (21:00) against Maccabi Rishon Lezion in the league.
The American played almost 100 minutes in the three games this week, and the Yellows do not want to exhaust him in another game, but on the other hand know that in games in which he has not dressed so far, they lost.
Maccabi did not return to Israel during the night, as it did in previous away games this season, and the team will only decide in the morning whether to hold a training session tonight or give it up and hold a training session only on Sunday morning.
"There is no doubt that there is a price for the short rotation," Maccabi agreed, "some of the players are empty of energy at the end of this week."
Celebrated on the ex.
Dorsey (Photo: Official Website, Official Website of Olympiacos)
4. While the team had a hard time hiding their disappointment from what happened, on the other hand Tyler Dorsey celebrated the victory over the ex and the coach “grounded” him, as he has been saying lately. Dorsey would have looked less sharp in the last Olympiacos games, but like almost every other player, he was great with 17 points, including 4 threes from 7 attempts.
Since the game in Monaco, Maccabi has focused on trying to stop Dorsey, and the fact that Gard had a good game, and knew how to find Sasha and Zankov and Mustafa Pal in easy baskets, made the opening of Olympiacos more dizzying.
At Maccabi Tel Aviv, we praised Dorsey for the excellent game, but no more than that. "He was really great, one of their best players, and he also got a little into Scotty's head," admitted one of the Yellows' teammates. "We know Tyler. Good luck later in the season and further down the road at Olympiacos. "
Will try to recover at the expense of Rishon Lezion.
Sapropoulos (Photo: Danny Maron)
5. After the victory over Barcelona, before the sequence of away games, Maccabi Tel Aviv wanted to register at least three victories from the journey that includes five away games and one home game, in order to keep themselves in good shape for the continuation of the playoffs.
After four games in the journey, the Yellows already have two wins, and next week they meet Alba Berlin away, in a game on paper they come in as favorites.
As stated tomorrow, the players of Sapropoulos will meet Rishon Lezion outside for a comfortable game on paper, but in the current situation, given the sequence of games, the club does not take any game as easy on paper.
After the same game, the four players of the team - Yiftach Ziv, John Dibertolomeo, Jake Cohen and Roman Sorkin, will be present for the opening training of the Israeli team ahead of the Mondobasket qualifiers. Will be released for some game and when.
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