Hapoel Jerusalem's loss last night (Thursday) to Promiti and the relegation from the Champions League has sharpened some burning issues for the leader, who is once again facing a European failure.
It's time to do some thinking in the capital.
What is a coach:
The most important role in basketball is the coach, and the most important man in the series was Nano Ginzburg, even though he only participated virtually in the last two games.
So if in the first game he was present and snatched in the head, and in the last two he was not present and they won.
So maybe you do not need a coach?
Make a gutta.
The appearance of the coach that appears to us spectators during the game, is perhaps 10% of his overall contribution to success.
Establishing staff and selecting players, pre-season work of connections and adjustments, finding strengths and closing weaknesses.
Imparting automatic moves that become the nature of the group.
This is the basis on which game-specific tactics come into play.
And the true level of coaching of a team is revealed precisely when the coach is absent.
What the players do without its immediate impact.
The gap in the level of training led to the better team winning even without a home game, and after a defeat in the first game.
And from Brock to Milenko Bogiewicz who inherited Nano's telephone legacy.
Now I'm that one gone:
The scientific experiment conducted by Hapoel Jerusalem Laboratory - "Let's count the professional manager who is not a coach in his being, and is not interested in being a coach, and we will see where this will lead" - reached the peak of his observations in this series.
And according to the hoped-for result, the assumption of the experiment failed.
But the responsibility is divided between the Jerusalem coach and the one who built the team's staff.
That in this case he is the same person, only in a different position.
And yet, Yotam has gone above and beyond, and the very fact that the club is in huge disappointment after launching the European campaign with three consecutive losses proves the huge improvement.
Jerusalem lost this series in the second game, when it failed to close the story with a double-digit advantage.
For the decisive game, Jerusalem came up smug, tired and anemic, and instead of going to the color of shelling threes, as if hoping to recreate the first game.
So although Yotam responded well to the narcissistic opening, raised the appropriate low vehicle and gradually closed the gap, but it is impossible to chase the whole game.
Certainly when doing nothing on offense, and the defense is shaky and unconnected.
And it is better to be smart and not smart, and not to fall into such a pit at all.
And so Yotam the professional manager created a problem that Yotam the coach did not have time to fix to the end.
Yotam Halperin.
Hapoel Jerusalem's experiment failed, Photo: Alan Shiver,
Backline problem:
As mentioned the most important job of a coach is to connect the players.
And the red line of Jerusalem runs between Obasohan and Adams.
The two leading guards are unable to exchange delivery.
Adams in tremendous form but Obasohan is not handed over to him.
Adams must score 30 in a game like this.
He had to throw 20 hard shots because no comfortable shots were arranged for him.
And who threw more?
Obasuhan threw 25 times !!
While Adam Ariel is hot but should beg for any delivery.
Obasuhan, the main dowry left in Jerusalem by Oren Amiel, is Jerusalem's main problem, and is not connected to the group.
The highlight was that Adams was unable to get an out under the basket because Obasuhan did not try to break free.
Then the opposite.
Claptrick's absence cried to heaven.
But they say he goes too.
Obasohan.
Tossed 25 times!
Photo: Alan Shiver,
Yet there are also tactics:
Jerusalem showed no match for the opponent.
There was no personal tactics at all.
Who to go to, who to leave.
And so Siddharov is pressed away from the basket.
Or leave Stephens for threes.
Everything is upside down.
Yotam's ensembles also felt like trial and error.
And the defense?
Dozens of colored balls without help.
A lazy pick-and-roll defense that makes a spare even without a block, just a walk in the direction, exploited by Promethei for free threes and smart penetrations utilizing every Miss Mach.
And in honor of NBA monsters like Anthony Bennett, Thon Maker and John Agbono, the one who defeated Jerusalem was the Croatian Miro Bilan - looks like an income tax official, not an athlete, not jumping over the Haaretz newspaper (of midweek, no weekend thing) , Does not throw threes.
But a broad orientation like that of Kish Romano, perfect use of body and board, and lots of game wisdom and experience.
In his minutes on the field Promitee won by 21 points.
The power of restraint.
This is the smart work of the coach who signed him and composed him in the summer.
There is something to learn.
Maigra Rama:
We would probably have talked and written and felt differently if Jerusalem had managed to win the second game.
But that's how it is series.
They sharpen the quality filtering.
Libby with Eyal Chomsky and Guy Harel.
After last season's bitterness, the ostentatious summer experience with former NBA players, the recognition of the extra glorious failure and the quick reaction with the change of coach and players.
By then they had already managed to beat Menersa in overtime and win at home.
Promitei is celebrating.
A glorious failure of Hapoel Jerusalem, Photo: Alan Shiber,
Already received a group like Prometheus in their first appearance at the factory.
They had already defeated her in the first game.
They deserved some relief and went on to the next stage, no more despair.
And here, Jerusalem is relegated from the Champions League for the second time in a row before the top 16. Eliminated from Europe for the seventh time in the last 12 years.
A club that corresponded with the Euroleague, which owns a marvelous arena that has reached the semi-finals of the Eurocup, has decided to relegate to build a tradition in Europe.
For that you will be lowered?
And in the end, what is the purpose?
It felt for a moment like a game of Maccabi Tel Aviv.
The same hour, the same performance.
Barely a quarter of the minutes were given to the Israelis, many minutes of an American five on the field.
The crowd may have froze but not encouraged like a play-off team fighting for its European season, and went home before the end.
Obasohan as Wilbkin, dribbles and loses, throws 25 times to the basket, scores the most, and loses.
Where's Adi Gordon's We Have Love '?
Where is the promised alternative?
This is a disappointment not only for Jerusalem, but for all Israeli basketball.
Were we wrong?
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