Frustration at Maccabi Tel Aviv: "It is difficult for us to get out of the negative continuum" | Israel Today

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The pressure level at Maccabi Tel Aviv rises after the loss yesterday (Thursday) 92:78 to Anadolu Zero which was the sixth consecutive loss and the seventh in the last eight rounds of the Euroleague.

Some members of the club's management remained to discuss the situation for some time after the end of the game, while other members of the management quickly left for their home, as did coach Yannis Sapropoulos and his teammates.

As we announced after the game, at the beginning of the week, the management of Maccabi Tel Aviv will convene for a special meeting following the situation, after which a decision will be made on how to act to get the team out of the crisis.

It is not inconceivable that the result of Sunday's game against Hapoel Galil Elyon will have an effect on what will happen at the meeting.

As we wrote earlier this week, there is currently no intention to fire Sapropolos from the coaching position.

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The group has been making great efforts recently to get out of the crisis.

Among other things, there is a sports psychologist who works with the players who need help and has conversations with them to understand the problems and to solve them.

The professional team conducts extra training with the players individually, especially with an emphasis on the subject of shooting to improve the low percentages of most players in recent times.

This is one of the reasons why Sapropolus looked frustrated yesterday in the face of the many mistakes (6 of 23 off the arc).

"Sometimes the balls don't come in when you're in a losing streak," the team said.

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Maccabi is thinking of strengthening the back line, but at the moment it does not seem that there is a specific candidate who is expected to arrive soon.

Sapropoulos will speak in the coming days with professional manager Nikola Vujicic to discuss the possibility of bringing in a procurement player.

Sapropolus, last night at the auditorium, Photo: Alan Schieber

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The actors talk to each other to try to understand how to get out of the crisis.

"The worst thing we can do is get down on ourselves," Keenan Evans said.

"We need to come to the next practice and prepare for the next game, not worry about the previous losses. We need to spark, come to the game with a different face and fix it in our energies. We need to stop our mental falls, lose balls and allow easy baskets from the other side, they hit us baskets It's easy, we need to stop it. "

Ante Žižić who excelled in the game and won big compliments, concluded: "It's hard, it's basketball. In the last games we fought, the players gave everything and it was not enough. Offensively we did a good job, but defensively we tried, we did the best we could "But they found the available players and scored a very good percentage."

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