The mental fall, the disappointment and the meaning: the defeat in Munich complicated Maccabi Tel Aviv

The Yellows again collapsed after a good period and played a weak offensive game against one of the best defensive teams in the factory, and apart from Wilbkin nothing worked.

And also: the significance of the loss in terms of the table, and the first big deciding game of the season coming on Monday

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04/02/2022

Friday, 04 February 2022, 06:54 Updated: 07:11

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Summary: Barcelona - Juventud Badalona 84:99 (Sport1)

Last night (Thursday )

, Maccabi Tel Aviv recorded one of its weakest games of the season in the Euroleague when it was defeated 70:52 by Bayern Munich away.

Following the loss, which broke a streak of three wins for the Yellows, the team dropped to a balance of ten wins against 12 losses, and is ranked 12th in the factory table.

The team, coached this third game by Avi Even in place of Yannis Sapropoulos due to the Corona, was in the game until the middle of the second half when Bayern took advantage of their excellent defensive ability, and Maccabi's weak offensive ability that found no solutions, to escape a double-digit gap.

The Yellows received no contribution from any player other than Scotty Wilbkin, who scored 20 points out of the team's 52 and finished with an index of 25 out of 45.

Kyrie Thomas scored 4 points in 21 minutes and was unable to influence the offensive or defensive game.

Maccabi finished the game with only five assists, and with 16 percent off the arc.

The last time the team scored fewer points in a game in Europe was in 1969.

"It was not our game from start to finish," Keenan Evans said at the end of the match, "we did not get into the pace of the game.

Angelo Cloiaro added: "We only had five assists in the game. We scored in very low percentages. We can not win against a good team like Bayern with such a weak offensive game. We have to think why we come so lukewarm and get back to ourselves fast. We have "A knockout game in the cup on Monday."

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Can not alone.

Wilbkin (Photo: Official Website, Elad Goldstein, Maccabi Tel Aviv - Official Instagram Page)

As

mentioned, Maccabi Tel Aviv came into the game with a streak of three victories and with great confidence after the impressive offensive display against Zalgiris Kaunas.

In the first quarter against Bayern the Yellows still seemed reasonable offensively, but later added 36 points in three quarters en route to just 52 points.

"It was clear we did not come prepared enough for the toughness of Bayern and Trinkieri and not the first time this has happened to us against him and against them," the club said last night.

The team players, who before the game talked about the desire to keep the high percentages from the field from the game in Kaunas, got stuck in the German wall, and radiated great nervousness when the referees did not whistle for fouls, until despair at the end with the home team's escape.

Maccabi India after the game because the team has a big problem of stability between games, and even in the current winning streak that preceded the game against Bayern the team did not maintain stability and between a great second half against Olympiacos and a fine attacking game in Kaunas, played mediocre basketball against Alba Berlin.

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The loss complicates the Yellows in the table (Photo: Official website, Elad Goldstein, Maccabi Tel Aviv - official Instagram page)

3.

Although in terms of the table Maccabi Tel Aviv is still close to the eighth place area, with only two wins away from Monaco and Bayern, with two games missing, but now the Germans have an advantage over them in the direct battle thanks to the victory by a high margin.

"We really wanted to reach 50 percent before the next game against CSKA, but we will have to climb to the top again after this loss," the club said

. The problem - Maccabi still has to meet Barcelona, ​​Kazan and Andulo away, and at home Real Madrid, Milan, Zenit St. Petersburg and in the next game CSKA Moscow in Yad Eliyahu.

Among the teams below it, the Yellows have difficult away games against Panathinaikos and the Red Star Belgrade, and a home game against Willerbahn.

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And now, the face to the local arena, and even there it will not be easy (Photo: Official website, Elad Goldstein, Maccabi Tel Aviv - official Instagram page)

With

all due respect to the table situation in the Euroleague, Maccabi is coming to a decisive game this season for the first time this season, without underestimating the Winner's Cup.

The Yellows, who took off from Munich a few hours after the loss, will begin preparations for the game on Monday against Upper Galilee in the quarterfinals of the State Cup, with coach Yannis Sapropoulos transferring training in the country after leaving the isolation, and Jake Cohen likely to be available Sunday.

Maccabi have said in recent days that in such a difficult season with ups and downs, it is important to go through obstacles like the upcoming game in Kfar Blum and will want to avoid another low point this season.

Maccabi tend not to dress Kyrie Thomas for the important game, but to look for a league game to run it in more significant minutes.

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