Optimism in the Israeli national team, Dani Avdia: "We will be in the round of 16"

After a positive game against the strong Serbia, the team believes that they will beat the Czech Republic.

Sussman: "We put everything on the field, we like to have our backs against the wall."

Medar: "I hope to bring pride to the country."

And also: the unhealthy swing in the minutes of the game ("no one knows how much he will play"), and who is waiting in the round of 16 if we go up?

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07/09/2022

Wednesday, September 7, 2022, 07:19 Updated: 07:22

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1. The Israeli basketball team lost last night (Tuesday) 89:78 to the Serbian team in its fourth game at EuroBasket 2022 and dropped to a balance of 2 wins and 2 losses.

The boys in blue and white are still ranked in a place that qualifies for the round of 16 in EuroBasket, but to keep it they will have to beat the host Czech Republic in the lockout game, or in a certain scenario lose by up to 5 points to Nano Ginzburg's players on Thursday.

Israel looked better against Serbia than the poor display against Poland the day before.

She managed to come back twice from a double-digit deficit, to take the lead in the second quarter, and in the third quarter to show signs of a comeback again, but no more.

"I felt the comeback and that it is possible to win, but big players make big moves," concluded Danny Avdia who scored 11 points, while Yam Madar who scored 20 points and excelled said: "We came to fight, we are a team and represent many people who are at home and see us, we wanted to represent them with respect and become They are happy, we stayed together for the whole game, we got the difference down to 2, we got winded with the unsportsmanlike foul and we weren't able to make another run. I'm proud of the guys for the effort we made."

Yuval Sussman again got a lot of minutes, and finished with 3 points: "We did our best, it wasn't enough, they are one of the best teams in the championship, but it wasn't enough, we did the best we could. I hope they showed it on TV, there are sometimes more people Talented, we put everything on the field."

The best was not enough.

Sussman (Photo: Reuters)

2. The team left with a good feeling from the loss to Serbia, mainly in terms of effort and desire, but also for executing tactical things that have not worked so far in the championship.

"We have to come with the same attitude, we brought this attitude because we were underdogs and we knew we had nothing to lose, but we have to play like this in every game," said Avdia, "bring the fighting spirit. We did a good job in defense and attack, we will have to play with this attitude in the future as well . We will be in the round of 16. We dealt relatively well with Jokic, we didn't make life easy for him."

Despite the good feeling, the members of the national team admitted in conversations during the night that what works against Serbia, it is not at all certain that it will work against the Czech Republic.

"You come to a game against Serbia and it's like playing against Maccabi Tel Aviv away, you're free," said one of the team members, "on the other hand, the game against the Czechs is a completely different style, also in terms of basketball but mainly in terms of importance and tension.

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Will the fighting spirit continue?

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

3. As mentioned, Israel and the Czech Republic will meet on Thursday for a match for the entire pot.

The Czechs could have lifted Israel and themselves as recently as yesterday if they had beaten Finland, but they failed and continued their disappointing tournament, all this despite the return of Tomasz Storanski.

Nano Ginzburg's players, who have already reached the quarter-finals of the World Championship and the Olympic tournament in recent years, are very experienced in these positions and have two super players - Storansky and Jan Vesli, but also a bunch of experienced and good complementary players.

"We'll rest a little today, but we like these situations, to be with our backs against the wall, where we flourish, we'll come and give everything like every new day, I hope we'll bring pride to our country," said Yuval Sussman.

Yam Medar added: "It's to be or not, we'll rest well from this game, we'll prepare, we have to give everything on the field to get to Berlin. This is not the time to look at where we can be, we're still in the European Championship, we have another game against Che

"To be or to cease".

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

4. The swing in the rotation of Guy Goodes also continued against Serbia.

Tamir Blatt, perhaps the team's most stable player in the first games of the tournament, dropped to 7 and a half minutes against Serbia, Tomer Ginat played only 5, Guy Panini was a partner in the end for 4 minutes, and on the other hand Yam Medar with 29 minutes, Rafi Manko with 19 and Yuval Sussman with 26 played more minutes than their average.

Some of the team's players have admitted in recent days that this swing in the minutes of the game is ultimately not healthy for the team's success, and players have difficulty developing confidence during the tournament.

"To tell the truth, no one knows if he will play and how much he will play in the next game," admitted last night one of the players who was on the floor, "you can say that it is good, but you are also somewhat worried that you started the game and because of one mistake or another you do not return to the field ".

swings.

Goods (Photo: Reuters)

5. A victory over the Czech Republic tomorrow will give the Israeli team the third place in Group D and a meeting against the team that will finish in second place - Croatia or Ukraine, while the Italian team that can finish with the same balance as these two will not be able to pass them because of their internal balance.

On the other hand, if the scenario that puts Israel up with a loss of up to 5 points (Finland's loss to the Netherlands) is realized, Israel will move up from fourth place and play in the round of 16 against Yanis Antetokounmpo and Tyler Dorsey's Greece.

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