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Lorenzo Brown is the hope of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans Israel today

2022-09-19T05:19:43.740Z


After leading the Spanish national team to win the European Championship, the greatest coordinator to land in Israel since Aras brings with him a mountain of expectations • A big test in Oded Ketch's coaching career


"Will he really play for us next year?"

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans asked themselves again and again, when they saw Lorenzo Braun star in the Spanish national team uniform in the last Eurobasket.

The yellow fans were given a rare opportunity to see their new coordinator play in a major tournament just before he arrives in Israel - and he gives them a lot of hope for the upcoming season.

Lorenzo started the European Championship as the enemy of the Spanish players.

The players' union protested his citizenship and claimed that he has no connection to the country, and also professionally that there are enough good players.

Two months later, when he led the team to a sensational victory, he became no less than a national hero in the country.

In total, he averaged 15.2 points and 7.6 assists per game, but will mostly be remembered for the tremendous ability he displayed in the knockout games.

Lorenzo Brown with the top five title of the tournament, photo: FIBA

After the injury of Ricky Rubio and the retirement of Sergio Rodriguez from the national team, coach Sergio Scariolo was looking for a successor to the center position, when he did not find suitable candidates in the country, he thought of Lorenzo who played under him in 2018 in the Toronto Raptors - then the Italian served as an assistant coach, and made sure to bring him to the staff despite all the criticism Around.

Since the summer of 2003, when Eliyahu Charonas Yasikvetchios arrived from the great Barcelona (by the way, after a win with Lithuania in EuroBasket), and led Maccabi to two wins in the EuroLeague, there has not landed in Tel Aviv a point guard who has great expectations of him like Lorenzo Brown.

And the question arises, how far can the team go with such a player?

Charas

He arrived in a similar situation, photo: Getty

Sole host


under the experienced coach in Spain, we have seen Brown lead a fairly limited squad to big wins over better teams.

The 61-year-old Scariolo used the center as the undisputed game manager and sole decision-maker in the team.

He almost always led the ball, and even when he didn't - he was the one who received it and started the attack.

The American's pick and roll game was very impressive in the championship, he almost always made the right decision.

Whether it's handing to the free player after the substitution, or stopping and taking a shot from half distance and also outside the arc - which he has proven to do excellently.

All this, along with his excellence in the important moments, made him the best player in the Spanish team at the European Championship, even though he did not win the title of MVP.

Lorenzo Brown averaged 22.8 PPG & 8.3 APG in the knockout stage prior to the EuroBasket final helping to overcome double-digit deficits for Spain in all 3 games.



He became 1st to get double-double in PTS & AST (11+10) in EuroBasket final.



Willy was awesome too, but that's the MVP material

— Donatas Urbonas (@Urbodo) September 18, 2022

Ketch's signing


very soon, the 32-year-old American will pack his bags and fly to Tel Aviv.

He will join Maccabi, which has already been training together for a few weeks and has started the practice games for the opening of the Euroleague on October 6 - and he will have only two weeks of preparation.

Oded Ketch really wanted to see Brown in the yellow uniform.

On paper, he looks like a player tailored to the Israeli coach's style of play, which is mainly based on pick and roll.

But the late joining of Wade Baldwin to Maccabi raises questions, how will the cooperation between the two work?

Unlike the campaign with the Spanish national team, Lorenzo will have to play in Israel together with another dominant guard, one who likes to make decisions and the ball in his hands.

Maccabi Tel Aviv's season will fall and rise on the cooperation of both.

They will have to play together for certain minutes - and this will also be Oded Ketch's biggest test, if he manages to manage this pair of stars - the sky will be the limit in Eliyahu's hand this season.

Lorenzo Brown.

The collaboration between him and Baldwin will determine the future of the season, photo: FIBA

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Source: israelhayom

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