The Israeli national team wants to make history, Gal Mekel: "They are coming to hunt"

After the victories over Finland and the Netherlands, the team will meet Poland and for the first time in its history will try to go 0:3 in the European Championship, when it will face a tall and physical team that has given them a lot of trouble in the past.

The captain knows: "Loss may complicate us"

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05/09/2022

Monday, 05 September 2022, 07:17 Updated: 07:28

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Shabbat reception of the Israel national team (Basketball Association)

The Israeli national team will try to make history today (Monday, 15:00) when they meet the Polish national team in the third match of the group stage of EuroBasket 2022. After the beautiful victories over Finland and the Netherlands - Israel will try to go 0:3 in the European Championship for the first time in its history, after three times in the past Started the championship with two wins, and then lost the third game.

The team knows that the task against the Poles, who beat the Czech Republic in the first game and were defeated in the second game against Finland, is going to be difficult, even very difficult.

The Poles defeated Israel with a fairly similar squad only three months ago, and are presenting an indoor game with a large number of players, with 21-year-old Alexander Barchalowski above all, whom Israel had no answers to in the game held at Ha'Slomo about a year ago.

How will Israel manage to deal with the height of the Poles?

Goods (photo: official website, FIBA ​​website)

The team worked on solutions for the Polish game yesterday, and on things that can be done to prevent the dominance in the paint, and at the same time on trying to slow down the two leading players of the opposing team - AJ Slaughter and Mitios Punitka.

Then in the afternoon a comprehensive video briefing was held on these things.

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"You see a video and come to devour. A world war. A victory will put us in a great place, a loss can complicate us."

stick (photo: official website, FIBA ​​website)

One of the team's leading players in this tournament is Gal Mekel, which should not be surprising when it comes to a 34-year-old captain who played in his first EuroBasket 13 years ago, but the situation surrounding Mekel this year is such that it should not have brought him in good shape for the championship.

Mackel has not played actively for the team since February, missing parts of training due to the medical condition of Willie Sims, the father of his wife Danielle, and his teenage age was also supposed to be a factor.

But Mekel on the floor is one of the stable and good players of the team.

"We don't look too far ahead, neither at the round of 16 nor at the quarter-finals, we only look at Poland. The coaching staff prepares us with touches, we see a video and come to attack. A world war. A victory will put us in a great place, a loss can complicate us," said the captain.

Meckle referred to the matchup with the Poles and said: "Last time we had a hard time with them in Poland, we respect them a lot, a physical and trained team with two dominant players who do a lot of damage, we will have to come focused, I believe it can be done. We are talking about the openness of the game , at the level of aggressiveness and concentration, we need to take a step forward and not fall into the pit like it was in the first two games, that's where we're aiming."

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