Hapoel Jerusalem CEO Guy Harel recently lectured to trainees of the "Future Generation Coaches" course of the Wingate National Institute, led by Yaakov Gino and Yonatan Alon, about his work as CEO and what goes on behind the scenes of the club's management.
The dismissal of Oren Amiel: "What happened this year with Oren Amiel, there was no such planning. We were very excited about him coming, he was also excited. For me to change coach is more than losing a game or a thousand people whistling contempt because if it was like every coach Dismissed after four months including Katsch and Pianijani. This is our culture in the country. But with Oren it got to a point where it could not go on. Both for us and for him. It was like a submarine, two people had to turn the key. E, leave, let me, everything's fine but I know where we're going, he could have stayed coach of Hapoel Jerusalem. He could not, I did not come to him with complaints, and no one saw it coming. Coach I want to know I have a better alternative. "
The appointment of Yotam Halperin: "The day after Oren's case we first told Yotam you are called to the flag, you have a coaching certificate, you are currently the team coach and let's see what happens. And what happened at that point is that reality wrote everyday and not the other way around Jerusalem, the most hating. After all, in previous seasons we signed Shalvin Mack, and Emanuel Terry who had great potential - but we controlled the situation, it was not that we signed them because there was a catastrophe. So this year reality dictates us. And I believe he will be at Hapoel for as long as he wants. And he was also a big part of the decision, if he came and said listen, we must find a coach - then we would look. through".
Yotam Halperin, Photo: Danny Maron
The lack of success in the last two years: "The corona disrupted Hapoel Jerusalem. Something broke. Until then we had a very clear culture ... In general, since the corona, a lot of things have happened at Hapoel at the top of the team, unrelated to professional matters. I think even if Oded was "Stayed last season, maybe it would not have ended as badly as it did, but it would not have ended in celebrations. There was a team with lots and lots of problems, from top to bottom. We were down without brakes and no one would have saved us."
His involvement in selecting players: "I'm been in the field for 30 or so years but when I have a basketball conversation I know what level I am at and what level the coach is at. I am of course a very big part of the conversation but it's mostly to do the process. Katsch) and Yunchuk (Yonatan Alon) wanted him and I started with all the usual clichés - how can we bring another 4 without shooting if we already have Lior Eliyahu, how can we bring without Stretch 4. They both did not understand at all how to hold this discussion, "And I tell you that chairs flew in the room. But what? In the end it is clear that there is one person who decides, and that is the coach. Because when conducting a discussion the professional has to decide.
"Now, what's going on in a lot of places? There's an illness that is hallucinatory to me. I can leave the room, say - no problem, bring in Tyson Thomas, and then drop the negotiations on anything I want.
On flight ticket, contract length, departure options, on everything.
Then come to the coach and tell him, hear there is nothing to do, it fell.
Managers who sabotage their own group.
You are the landlord!
You do not want?
Say cheer I heard you, there is no Tyson Thomas.
Your right.
In the end the coach works for you and not you with him.
After two weeks Tyson was caught on drugs from the previous season.
I told them, here, a chance to get rid of him, they told me what to get rid of?
Take advantage of this, add another year to the contract.
So the discourse was a hallucination and in the end you know how it worked. "
Dealing with complex situations: "You're dealing with situations where nothing prepares you. Trent is picky, it's a guy who built it and then copied the Statue of Liberty. There's no such guy. But a mom in the US got sick and he can not even think about the next game.
Another example, at the end of our first year we found out that our most valuable player on the team broke up with his girlfriend an ugly farewell, left her home and went to live with her parents.
The fact that we did not know about it is something that haunted us.
We could not have had such a big event at the club and we did not know about it.
It was a very big lesson for us.
We explained to the team - the physio, the waiter, these are the guys who know everything, that they must come and tell and this is not gossip.
Because there is an event in a person's life that is important to us and we need to help him, take care of him.
The essence is to manage the event: you will manage the process correctly and over time it will succeed. "
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