Berlin as an example
Alba Berlin is not the team that Maccabi needed after the fall of the derby.
Alba is not a group that takes out of you your best, strongest, most nervous.
It is an anesthetic team, which does not seem to really play to win, but more to test the diverse abilities of all its players.
And Maccabi is not good against such a team.
Give it to Barcelona, give it to CSKA, Real. But games like this are a big minefield for Maccabi. Quiet, sleepy. And the whole game, even though Maccabi led, the quality index was in Alba's favor. The storm was only enough to reduce the difference to three. Only then did Maccabi remember to get a little upset, ran twice and finished the game.
Yuval as an example
In its heyday, the regular pattern of the Maccabi Tel Aviv staff was: we will bring in the best Israelis, and land some excellent foreigners in the critical positions only.
And Yuval Sussman is a shining symbol of the bad phenomenon of the last decade, in which Maccabi prefers ten mediocre foreigners over the good Israelis, and sends them to graze in foreign fields, Maccabi lost in a derby to two and a half foreigners and Israelis it would not bring.
And here, the contemptuous whistles for every action of Yuval Sussman on the part of at least half of the crowd, illustrate the moral low that Maccabi's captive crowd has reached.
Instead of whistling contempt at the decision-makers who brought in ten strangers, including three for his position, he is whistled with contempt because he dared to look for a place where he would be treated as an important player and not as a substitute.
For Yuval, if it is not the status of a quintet player, it is always better to get out of the golden cage and check yourself as a reinforcement player elsewhere.
Here you are a home player, there you are a foreign player.
And when the house is not welcoming, it is your duty to find another place.
The contempt for you.
Sussman with Zizic.
Contempt for Maccabi fans, Photo: Alan Shiber
Taylor as an example
Now remember to lend Taylor?
Why bring it at all?
And if he's that good for 23 minutes, why release him and bring in Kyrie Thomas?
Every season there is at least one foreigner, or usually two extra ones who hurt Israelis.
But Yannis has a class.
When a player is known to be leaving, the coach will usually no longer use him because he will not help him in the foreseeable future.
But Yannis gave him many minutes, to set a Euroleague points record, to get to the new team as a player with double digits in the Euroleague, and maybe even with a heavy heart, because he feels he could have stayed and contributed.
And again, this is not Taylor's fault, nor Yannis' fault, but the building of the rotten team that loads too long and mediocre staff that impairs the coach's team management ability, and the players themselves.
And here again Yiftach Ziv and Roman Sorkin played DNP minutes.
Hapoel Tel Aviv as an example
The differences in Maccabi's level of concentration and alertness between the local league and Europe are significantly reflected in the category of losses. 4 in the entire game against Olympiacos, 15 in the first half of the derby, 3 the entire game against Alba. Maccabi's historical mistake is the different treatment between the frameworks. The soft Russian law (only one Israeli must be on the field) and the sufficient number of Israelis who are good at Maccabi take the sting out of the argument of frameworks with different laws. So what's left? That only 5 strangers are allowed to dress? Sign five excellent foreigners instead of eight mediocre, then play the same team in all frames. And there was something to learn from the derby: the fifty (50!) Minutes shared by John Dee and Taylor, as if they corresponded with the defense of Gil Benny and Raz Adam in the derby. About what and why? Because these are guards who pass by force in blocks and do not require replacement. There is no reason to produce Miss Mach when you should not. Spare is not a magic solution, it is a bad result that causes a problem under the basket and on the rebound. And so this time Maccabi overcame Kumadji and concluded.
Sapropolus.
There is nothing to be afraid of, he will end the season, Photo: Alan Shiber
Scottish as an example
The Wilbkin-Yannis axis was at a low ebb after the last timeout in the derby.
Scotty did to Yannis what Adi Gordon did to Pini in Jerusalem, demanding to cancel the exercise and do OPEN.
That time Adi brought the State Cup.
Meanwhile Scotty brings only Eshel Cups.
And there is respect for Eshel.
It might have been possible to give it up at all in this game, but the injured Nanelli broke the plot (which it really wasn't).
In any case, most of the time a top five without Wilbkin plays better basketball (except for the odd top five at the start of the fourth quarter), averages twice as many passes per offense, the players' joy of play improves, and they share the ball better.
Yannis should not be afraid.
He will no longer be replaced, and has nothing to lose.
Scotty himself also understands this, and this time as he played through the offensive line, dribbled just two or three times and then realized he had to deliver, handing out six assists that the players around him are starting to believe he will release, everything seems simpler and more correct.
For example twenty assists on three turnovers.
Just need a strong coach to force him.
Elementary, Yannis.
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