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Big celebrations at Maccabi Tel Aviv after the 73:94 over Wheelerban and the promotion to the quarterfinals of the Euroleague.
In fact, the Yellows will appear in the last eight stages of the continent's senior plant for the first time since 2015, although in the 2019/20 season they also promised immigration, but did not play it due to the corona virus that led to the season halt.
"This journey can go on until the Final Four in Belgrade," the club said with great enthusiasm, "with the energies that have been in the hall and the connection within the team lately everything is possible."
Keenan Evans also sounded confident in his and his teammates' ability to do beautiful things in the knockout stage: "We are the most dangerous team in the Euroleague, any team that plays against us should be scared. I hope we reach the playoffs as one of the hottest teams.
When asked who he would rather have in the next round, the excellent guard replied: "There is not one team I want, every team should be afraid of us because we are in a good matchup against every team. We will just have to come in the right way for the games."
Maccabi Tel Aviv players. White does them good, Photo: Alan Shiber
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Scotty Wilbkin was happy at the end: "I was in the playoffs early in my career (with Drushpaka in the 2015/16 season, YM), and I haven't been since, so nice to be back.
It's hard, every year it's hard, we are happy and feel we have won to play in the top 8 ".
The yellow star also referred to the fact that he waved the Israeli flag as a sign of solidarity with those killed in recent attacks and with the State of Israel in these difficult days: "Many times I am asked to wave the flag, and with everything that is happening now I wanted to support the country."
Only when asked about the change that Avi Even brought about compared to the period of Yannis Sapropoulos, Wilbkin got a little confused and had a hard time answering: "You all know how I feel about Coach Yannis, our success is not because of the change of coaches, and I prefer not to answer that question. Us as he needs to, but the change is mainly our players. "
Maccabi does indeed compliment Avi Even, who realized that the current staff is suited to a more relaxed running and attacking game compared to the slower and more controlled style of play that Sapropolos instilled.
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