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The Israeli team returns this week to the second round of the World Cup qualifiers, one of six rounds (including the second round), and the goal is to return to the world tournament after more than 30 years.
The opening heralded good with 0: 2 in the November window, which already practically guarantees the ascent to the next stage.
Now the goal is to get as many wins as possible, because the teams carry the balance with them to the second round.
The previous window signaled Israel's superiority in this house: victory over Poland, foreign victory in Estonia, and watching Germany play in a secondary squad and lose at home to Estonia.
Chapter B is a German chapter.
Israel will meet her at home and abroad in three days.
In terms of resume and player potential, Germany is better than Israel, but not in the current line-ups.
As is well known, the qualifiers are held without NBA players and most of the Euroleague players.
If Israel manages to put up a vehicle that is 70 percent of the strongest, Germany will not even reach 10 percent.
Take Germany's squad to last summer's Olympics, which was also not the strongest squad it could field, and you will hardly find a trace of it in this tournament.
It is possible that in the rematch in Germany some players will join, including him very much, but Israel still has the opportunity to register another double in the window, and more against whoever was supposed to be its strongest rival.
Sean Dawson.
Again in blue and white, Photo: Alan Schieber
2. The
participation of Maccabi Tel Aviv players in the next window will be minimal - only Jake Cohen will play in the first game.
It's an injury, but it should be taken in proportion because the base of the teams has been running together for several years.
The problem will be with the face being relatively sparse, as Goodes can not build on Jake Cohen in the second game and Roman Sorkin, and without me Segev is injured.
It's time to give Chachashvili a first chance.
The outside line will not be damaged.
Yiftach Ziv's absence from the first game could be covered by Noam Dovrat, who is in progress, and Tamir Blatt will arrive in the second game.
On paper John Dibertolomeo will have an excellent replacement - Max Heidegger.
He is supposed to give the team a dimension that is unstable in him, a player who scores points and provides shooting from outside the arc.
The first two games showed we do not have a scorer who is an anchor.
Gabi Chachashvili and Nimrod Levy.
First opportunity for the young high, Photo: Alan Shiber
3.
Goods will have "problems" in determining the final roster, so-called good trouble.
There are those who knock on the door.
The squad that formed in the previous campaign is joined by the man of the hour and the new winner of the State Cup, Sean Dawson, who is in an excellent period and has proven that he has come out of the serious injuries in recent years.
He has not played for the team for three and a half years.
Even before the injuries he was not the favorite (professionally) of the previous coach Oded Katash.
Goodes will have the challenge of incorporating Dawson in position 3, manned by Rafi Manko and Guy Pnini.
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