Frustration in the team, Goodes' associates are angry: "They are throwing him under the bus"

A big disappointment in the Israeli national team following the expulsion from EuroBasket: "A terrible feeling, we didn't meet the goal".

The coach who is expected to pay in his position will return to guide Holon.

And also: the chance that Dani Avdia will return to the national uniform in less than a year

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09/09/2022

Friday, 09 September 2022, 07:00

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Huge disappointment in the Israeli national team after the elimination last night (Thursday) from EuroBasket 2022 already at the end of the group stage.

Israel lost the fateful game for the promotion to the round of 16 88:77 to the Czech team, and finished the home in fifth place with two wins and three losses.

The national team players, except for Tamir Blatt and Yuval Sussman, who have already joined their team Alba Berlin, will arrive in Israel today at noon and will begin preparation for the next season.

Last night, after the game, the general mood in the Israeli camp was very bad and some of the players locked themselves in their room after returning to the hotel.

One of the players spoke from the hotel about the feelings: "It's a terrible feeling. We feel that we let down an entire country. We didn't meet our goal, we didn't play well enough, we didn't do it. There is no worse sporting feeling than this. Most of us are in the European Senior Championship for the first time, I think it's not enough We calculated the element of inexperience that stood out for us in the loss to Poland, which was the critical loss. We didn't know how to approach the important game properly."

The mood is bad and players in the national team have locked themselves in their room (Photo: Reuters)

The basketball union is expected to act quickly when it comes to decisions for the senior team, since in exactly two months the team will return to play against Slovenia in the World Cup qualifiers, which leaves the union a few weeks to make decisions about the future of Guy Goodes, who currently wants to make a change and end his role in the team.

The union appreciates Goodes for maintaining professionalism throughout the last year, but in terms of the results he was unable to lead the team to success - "We should have been somewhere else both in the qualifiers for the World Championship and also to go through a round in the European Championship, there's no doubt about that," one of Prague said last night One of the senior officials of the basketball association, "When did we realize that it was going in a bad direction? I think of the loss in Poland in June. There was a feeling that we were missing something."

By the way, Goodes will return in the coming days to coach Hapoel Holon, which is already in advanced stages of preparation for the next season and has held two practice matches.

Those around the coach were angry at the publications regarding his future, "Whoever brought these things out recently threw Guy under the bus," said one of his close associates, "It's not new that this is how coaches are treated here."

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Guy Goodes (photo: official website, FIBA ​​website)

Danny Avdia ended his first significant campaign in the Israeli national team last night with a team failure.

After each of the national team's games, Avdia stood in front of the microphones of the Israeli journalists who came to Prague, last night he did not speak, and he looked very, very disappointed.

If the Israeli team does not do the unbelievable and advance to the World Cup, the next time Avdia can be part of the team is in the qualifying tournament for the pre-Olympic tournament to be held in August 2023. Each of the 12 European teams that do not qualify for the World Cup will play in this tournament, along with the four highest ranked who were eliminated in the first qualifying round.

These teams will compete for two tickets to the pre-Olympic tournament that will be held the following summer.

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