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Maccabi Tel Aviv dedicated the victory to Safropoulos, Blazer: "Standing behind him" - Walla! sport

2022-01-02T05:30:10.092Z


The Yellows celebrated in the locker room in the arena the victory over Hapoel Jerusalem and the forward opened his heart: "A lot of pressure was released. There is a feeling of the whole world against us, proud to go to this war"


Maccabi Tel Aviv dedicated the victory to Safropoulos, Blazer: "Standing behind him"

The Yellows celebrated in the locker room in the arena the victory over Hapoel Jerusalem and the forward opened his heart: "A lot of pressure was released. There is a feeling of the whole world against us, proud to go to this war."

The club hopes that Zizic's injury is not serious and expects developments in the player market

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The locker room of Maccabi Tel Aviv at the end of last night's (Saturday) 78:83 victory over Hapoel Jerusalem away was similar to the one that brought a significant achievement.

Descending from the parquet, the actors screamed with joy and the voices that emanated from within were voices of real celebration.

The faces at the exit were very smiling and one did not have to ask too many questions to understand how important the victory was to the club people.



Even before that, on the floor, Yannis Sapropoulos passed and hugged all the players at length, and then also the management members who gave him the credit and trust.

"It's like the win against Barcelona in terms of the importance of this season," the club said after the game, "no less. From here we believe we are on the way up, not knowing if we will save the season in the Euroleague, but there is a first positive sign that we will not give up."

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"Like the victory over Barcelona."

Sapropolos celebrates in Jerusalem (Photo: Danny Maron)

It was a very emotional weekend for the Yellows.

On Thursday night the club management announced that it is backing Sapropoulos and that he remains the coach.

The team had a very good training session, they said the night before the game, and the feeling was that they were going to a meeting against the table leader in a good mental state.



On the floor the war and effort were very significant, with quite a few sub-players - Oz Blazer, John Dibertolomeo and Jake Cohen, showing record ability, as well as Keenan Evans who ran the game and Derrick Williams who was there from the start and Haifa on a weak Scotty Wilbkin game.

Still, in the middle of the fourth quarter, Jerusalem ran away with a 63:70 advantage, and a little later Maccabi lost Ante Zizic, who today knew at the club how serious, if at all, his knee injury was.

Maccabi Tel Aviv has not been able to get out of this pit in recent weeks, last night it did, mainly thanks to big moves by Evans, Williams and Dibertolomeo.

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"Yannis said not to think about the pressure."

Oz Blazer (Photo: Danny Maron)

"It's not easy to play against Jerusalem at home, a talented team, everyone in each quarter contributed. We played very team. I hope we build on that and we will set out on a new path," said Oz Blazer, who scored all 11 of his points in the first half. "Because we have an amazing connection between Yannis in the locker room, we know that the situation was not easy for him either, a lot of pressure was released."



"We have been waiting for this very long," Blazer continued. "Also in the way we played. We went back to playing the way Maccabi should play, with heart and war, we stand behind him. He made motivational calls and talked to us, and even before warming up with me he told us a story that drove us crazy. There was a desire to win and start the year right. "Everything has to come out, but it had a significant part in our energies. There are so many people behind the scenes here that the team is important to them, we did not want to get into a situation like now."



Asked about the importance of the game and whether it will change the way to the future Blazer said: "I believe it will change, we lost a lot of games in the end, they led a few minutes to the end and we did not break, in recent games we were under a lot of pressure. "We will be free and we will win these games. I believe this victory will take us forward. A lot of eyes are on us and it is a feeling of the whole world against us, I am proud to go to this war, we cut off everything around and look only at ourselves."

In any case not supposed to dress tomorrow.

Ante Zizic (Photo: Danny Maron)

The Yellows will return to practice today ahead of the game against Bnei Herzliya tomorrow (18:00), a game in which a victory will bring the team closer to Hapoel Jerusalem in terms of the number of victories.

Even if it is found that Zizic's injury is not serious, he should not dress for the game, and Jaylen Reynolds will be the one to get the credit, with this time Roman Sorkin also expected to get more minutes and support the foreign player and Jake Cohen.



Maccabi Tel Aviv continues to wait for developments in the player market, with various sources in the club estimating that in the near future a number of players who are currently receiving 10-day contracts in the NBA will drop out of the best league in the world and find their way into the player market.

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