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Big disappointment in the Israeli team after the 84:80 loss last night (Monday) to Germany.
The team will return tonight very disappointed when they know that the pair of losses will hurt them greatly in the chances of advancing to the World Cup qualifiers.
"We were twice close to defeating Germany and we did not do it," they said in disappointment with the team.
"A win would have given us a big advantage in the fight for promotion to the World Cup, but we did not do that."
Tamir Blatt, who led the team in the good minutes, also sounded frustrated: "A big disappointment, we dominated this game and in the fourth quarter we just fell off our feet. We made less good decisions in the last minutes and it sucks."
"There's not much to say, bad luck," Bar Timor added in disappointment.
"It's a miss. We were led by 15 points and fell for the small things. We got stuck in the attack in the last few minutes and a few small actions that we fell for. Too bad, it's very frustrating. A hard loss."
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standout in the window is of course Tomer Ginat who was good at one or two levels from the other players.
"We feel very disappointed," said the forward who will return to his team in France.
"We could have won both games, and this game was already in our hands and in the end it fell apart. We will have to come to the window in June which will be the most significant and we will hope to do the job there. It is a pity that this is how it ended."
Tomer Ginat.
Excelled but it was not enough, Photo: FIBA website
And there's the Max Heidegger question
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In recent months, members of the basketball association have put heavy pressure on the player and his representatives so that he will not play for Austria but for Israel.
The Austrians even came to Germany to sign the citizenship form, but Heidegger decided that he was interested in playing in Israel and, as he said in an interview with Israel Today, arrived in Israel happily and expecting to help the team.
Despite all the efforts, in the first game he got a few minutes, and yesterday he is no longer a partner at all, not even in the first half where the team had a very hard time offensively and was stopped on 34 points with a bad percentage.
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