They are Mush-Ray-Nim: the problems that led to another fall of Maccabi Tel Aviv
The guaranteed place in the Euroleague continues to produce a "business as usual" feeling, in a team that has become a business.
The league has become a joke, and the Israeli player is not rehabilitating it.
Fans are threatening to boycott the management, but everyone has already forgotten what is wrong.
The main problem: there is nothing that will shake Maccabi Tel Aviv
Paz Hasdai
04/06/2022
Saturday, 04 June 2022, 09:00
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Summary of the 2021/22 season of Sport 1 (Sport 1)
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There are several factors that led to the decline of Maccabi Tel Aviv and the loss of its traditional and mythological hunger, and of course one of them is the armor in the Euroleague.
This is the source of evil.
You can understand the decision at the business level, the non-Euroleague people do not want to take a risk, it will be an economic blow for them if they get stuck now for an entire season with Bnei Herzliya, it is not European football that has depth and diversity.
The problem is what it does for Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Mental laxity, passivity, apathy.
Knowing that in any case next season she will be in the factory hurts her fatality in motivation.
Since winning the championship is of no importance, there is no problem in firing a coach and appointing a band-aid in his place.
Revenue for next season is already guaranteed.
And what is more important than income?
In this reality, if Maccabi Tel Aviv somehow surprises and manages to sign a senior coach this summer, the appointment of Avi Even will become a "logical" decision.
In the middle of a season it is difficult to find a quality coach available, no self-respecting professional would sign for half a season.
No need to compromise and get stuck with a mediocre coach (sorry Oded Katash) just because he rightly demands a contract for a season and a half.
So if Maccabi knows that a senior coach will come in the summer to make order, because of the twisted armor in the Euroleague, it can afford to wait, even if it means burning half a season.
It was a calculated risk.
But what happens along the way?
She is humiliated in the cup, gets in the head in derbies, is relegated to Herzliya, embarrasses herself, loses all passon, evil, determination, "the spirit of the club".
But in terms of numbers, cash, it does not matter at all.
The business is functioning.
This is how it is when your place is armored.
Giving up, overlapping, thinking about the future.
In English they call it tanking.
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That generation, and the present generation.
Federman, Recanati, Mizrahi, Vujicic (Photo: Berni Ardov)
The problem is that this is a club that has boasted of an obsessive hunger, that does not give up a point even with a 20-point advantage, and in fact demands that they make it 30.
But the current management continues to send a clear message: we are not as crazy as the management of yesteryear.
Forget it.
You will not see us sitting on the lines and attacking judges.
We do not come for this madness.
We have no intention of convening a meeting after any loss to Gilboa Galil.
It happens that you lose.
This is not the end of the world.
We are a sports team, not some invincible mythical entity.
Gone are the days of "Simon will settle", psychological wars, dirty moves, nothing more sanctifies victory.
Gone are the days when Avi Even just for his lost quotes would be reprimanded or go home.
As long as every summer the addicted crowd buys thousands of Euroleague subscribers, there is no reason for that to change.
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Another thing that hurts Maccabi Tel Aviv's motivation to storm the championship is the atmosphere around the Israeli Basketball League.
The feeling is that industry executives have for decades made a great effort to destroy the league and the “product”.
The Final Purim was an unfortunate joke.
The regular season stretched like chewing gum, with unimportant games and an unnecessary third round.
The transfer date never ends.
At any given moment there are eight Americans on the field, who individuals identify.
If Chris Bab, a superstar in the league and one of the top five this season, walks the streets of the city, few know who he is (compared to, say, the Goldberg tongue).
This season the quarterfinals were the best of 5, and the semifinals and the best final of 3.
How can one take such a league seriously?
What is so prestigious about winning the championship?
Who to trust?
Ziv (Photo: Udi Citation)
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This week, Ofer sent a commentator on Herzliya's victory at the Heichal, and did not stop praising Yair Kravitz.
Shelach did not stop praising and complimenting the "smart" and "elegant" player, although Kravitz (definitely a nice player) finished with 2 points, 3 rebounds, 2 blocks and 2 losses, while Onoako (25), Bab (23), Van Walit (13) and Kemp (16) were the ones who stood out.
But this romantic love for the Israeli actor will never end.
She has no cure.
And these are the people who will always argue against Maccabi and its coaches about the drying up of Ziv and Blazer, while you will see how Blatt and Sussman "bloom" in the Euroleague (12 points together), and Tomer Ginat excels (in a team eliminated in the French League quarterfinals), and in fact all these players are so good (In the irrelevant Eurobasket qualifiers).
So here's another problem for Maccabi Tel Aviv: the foreigners are Reynolds and Nanelli without commitment, and the locals are just not good enough for a team that wants to finish in the top-8 in the Euroleague (left a trophy, expectations have changed).
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Bnei Herzliya (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)
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One of the amazing figures that appeared this week: All Bnei Herzliya players together earn half of Scotty Wilbkin's salary.
It makes no sense.
He's certainly not worth twice as much as everyone else, does not contribute more than everyone else together, but is simply part of a team that plays in a factory that rolls in a lot of money.
As in European football, if a player moves to a big team and triples his salary, it does not mean that he is suddenly worth 3 times Wilbkin's disproportionate salary (he is just an example and a symbol, not Hashem) only illustrates the absurdity of both frameworks.
The financial distortion, which creates distorted expectations.
Dear staff, this is a good start.
At the end, they go up to the pitch five to five.
In fact, Bnei Herzliya's victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv illustrates only one thing: the depth and talent that exists in American basketball.
It has nothing to do with the league.
There are so many good and talented players in the US, there is an endless amount of talented basketball players that no one has heard of, and can put together a great team like Herzliya, as long as they are in the right vibe, connected properly and well trained. And pay them huge sums, but at the same time broadcast a lack of seriousness, a lack of commitment and let them play under a man who has never trained - and you will find that in the moment of truth they fail.
A boycott of fans has never been a simple step.
Wilbkin and Maccabi Tel Aviv fans (Photo: Berni Ardov)
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So how do Maccabi Tel Aviv fans intend to react?
There is a problem with the boycott.
People love their group too much.
A few weeks without her, and they forget the evil and start to miss.
Fans are inherently optimistic.
New players arrive, and they are once again filled with faith.
Another problem is the intensity of the experience at Yad Eliyahu.
When you go to Maccabi Tel Aviv, it is a strong and powerful experience.
And even in such a horrible season, the Euroleague season had some sweeping evenings, full of energy and adrenaline.
Those who are already addicted will find it difficult to quit.
As Ahrela Weisberg analyzed well, there is a stable faction in the management that does not recognize the problem.
He, too, is "armored."
Something unusual has to happen here for the crowd to revolt.
The problem is that losing the championship has not shaken anyone there for a long time.
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