Noam's ways: about Noam's return to the rising trend

The horrific injury halted his rise, the fall in Rishon Lezion lowered his confidence, but the guard recovered just in time to lead the reserve team to the semifinals of the European Championship.

Now he has to face the biggest name in the championship

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07/23/2022

Saturday, July 23, 2022, 2:00 p.m

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Tiktekno, summary of the events of July 22 (Sport 1)

The night of November 18, 2020 was special for Danny Avdia and Yam Medar who were selected in the NBA draft, but not only for both of them.

Noam Doberat, then only 18 years old, saw how two of his friends at a young age became hot commodities at the international level, and began his breakthrough in the uniform of Maccabi Rishon Lezion.

Dovrat's route was almost clear.

His agent Avi Silberman was already in contact with American agencies that were interested in him, his name was in all the scouting registers, and the goal was this year's draft.

Together with Maccabi Rishon Lezion, he was supposed to make a decision about where he will advance in the 2021/22 season, whether he will stay, and what is best for him in the future.

A rise for an unnecessary dunk against Hapoel Tel Aviv in a game in the lower playoffs changed everything.

Dovarat dislocated his elbow, was absent from the courts for the first time in his career for a significant period of time, and came back significantly less well, especially when it comes to the mental aspect.

He did not score a basket for two points until the closing cycle of the first round in the Premier League last season, Rishon Lezion, which kept him despite an offer from Po'el Jerusalem, crashed, and his direction was not good.

The move to Jerusalem in the middle of last season stopped the negative trend, and the European reserve championship and the excellence in it probably mark the return of Dovrat to the top of Israeli basketball.

The transition from Rishon Lezion to Hapoel Jerusalem stopped the fall.

Speaker (photo: Danny Maron)

For those who managed to forget, even though he has 89 games in the Premier League, two appearances in the senior national team, and games in the Eurocup, Noam Doberat celebrated only 20 last week. It seems that he has been here for a very long time, and it is mainly because he came up to the seniors even before he was 17 years old. In this perspective, his situation looks much better

"Noam is heading towards a very important season, and his excellence in the reserves shows that he is approaching it in a good way," they say in Hapoel Jerusalem about the team's leading Israeli coordinator.

When Doverat first reached the senior team, in the February 2021 window of the Eurobasket qualifiers, the thought began that he would be part of the team in the Eurobasket itself, and whether he would be able to play both in the reserve team and in the Eurobasket afterwards.

"We saw Noam's progress, his previous excellent season, and the thought was very positive. If you look at that trend, and at the current situation in the team, it was certainly realistic that he had a place in the final squad for the trip to the Czech Republic," says one of the members of the senior team today. "Actually, his injury came and changed all the plans."

Dovara from the start of last season was a pale shadow of the player who excelled until the injury.

His style of play changed slightly, his confidence was lost, and the fall of Rishon Lezion did not add.

"In retrospect, it was a mistake not to release Noam already in the summer," admits one of Rishon Lezion's people, "we could have built the team differently, and he could have started anew in a place that built realistic expectations for him after the injury. His departure to Jerusalem during the season was right for the team even though it was relegated ".

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He seems to have been here for a very long time.

Speaker (photo: Barney Ardov)

The ability of Dovrat in Hapoel Jerusalem was not too impressive, he finished with 6 points in 23.8 minutes in the regular league and 6.9 points in the same number of minutes in the playoffs.

Not that the general feeling was that he was finding himself within the group and improving.

At the same time, the basketball association made it clear to him that they were building him for the reserve team, and a spokeswoman who already understood that the Eurobasket dream would not come true this time, embraced the challenge with both hands.

"He is very committed to the reserve team," says one of the members of the union, "he was not good enough at the beginning of the preparation, but it was clear to us that he would be at his best later on."

Dovrat's numbers are very impressive.

He ranks sixth in points in the championship with 16.6, pulls down 6 rebounds (19th in the ranking), tenth in assists with 4.2 and 15th in the overall index with 15.2.

Although Gilad Levi records better numbers than him, there is no doubt who is the leader of the team and who is the real owner.

In the vicinity of a racing spokeswoman from his progress in the current championship.

Almost every one of the stars of the recent reserve teams registered a significant upgrade in the season that came after the good championship - Yuval Sussman in 2017 and 2018, Danny Avdia in 2018 and 2019 and Yam Medar in 2019.

In Hapoel Jerusalem, it will not be easy for the speaker to excel in view of the number of leading players in his position and in the adjacent positions, but the confidence and fitness he will bring with him from Montenegro should help him start the season in a good position.

Dovrat's contract, purchased for almost a million shekels last season, allows him to enter the draft and the NBA next summer.

It is estimated that if he continues his progress, he will be a candidate for selection, but his path to the best league in the world is still very far, and he will have to make an increase that currently seems very large and significant to be considered in the foreseeable future to become a player that is of great interest to teams in the United States.

"Very committed to the reserve team."

Spokesperson (photo: official website, fiba.com)

Tonight (7:45 p.m.) Doverat, one of the leading players in terms of minutes and senior status in the championship, will face one of the most fascinating and promising players that the current reserve European Championship has to offer - Spanish Juan Nunez from Real Madrid.

Núñez is a player who is marked as a lottery pick in the draft, possibly already the next one, and he should continue to upgrade his status with the Blancos in the Euroleague.

"Until now, Noam has beaten every guard who stood in front of him quite prominently," said one of the members of the reserve team after the victory over Turkey, "Nunize is probably the biggest name this championship has to offer. Noam is more mature and ready than him, and we are sure that he will continue this trend."

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