Frustration in Maccabi Tel Aviv: "Celebrate us, if we continue like this we will not reach the goal"

After Fenerbahçe also controlled the offensive rebound against them, the Yellows admitted the problem and also pointed to the refereeing as one of the reasons for the defeat in Turkey.

And also: the post about Wilbkin that caused a stir, Adams joining and the upcoming "French" week

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15/10/2022

Saturday, October 15, 2022, 07:43

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Summary: Hapoel Tel Aviv - London Lions 59:76 (Sport1)

1. Maccabi Tel Aviv suffered its first Euroleague loss last night (Friday) in its first away game for the 2022/23 season, when it was defeated 86:71 by Fenerbahçe in Istanbul.

The Yellows dropped to a balance of one win and one loss in the factory after two games, and can at least take solace in the fact that their next three games will be held at Yad Eliyahu Hall.

In spite of controlling all the indicators, the Turks went down at the end of the first quarter with only a lead of three, mainly due to very good minutes of Lorenzo Brown who played excellently in the first half and disappeared completely in the second.

The host's qualitative advantage was already reflected at the break when she ran to a double-digit lead, and in the third quarter she already had a lead of 20, but Maccabi did not give up, showed a lot of character with excellent minutes by Roman Sorkin, Wade Baldwin and Jarel Martin, and reduced it to minus seven in the last quarter , but no more than that.

At the end, the team members were disappointed with the loss and pointed - apart from the professional mistakes - to uneven judging, when Fenerbahçe reached the penalty line 18 times more than them.

Those who were less good than the previous game against Zalgiris, were Bonzi Colson who got stuck on 5 points in 22 and a half minutes and Alex Poithers who finished with 10 points in a pretty solid game.

"I think we fought throughout the game," concluded Sorkin, "we saw Fenerbahce's quality and they managed to disrupt our game. We didn't give up and in the fourth quarter we got as close as 7 with the ball in our hand, but they went on another run and that was it too much".

The forwards struggled to rebound.

Jarel Martin (Photo: GettyImages, Seskim Photo/MB Media)

2. While Maccabi Tel Aviv didn't like the refereeing, it's hard not to point to the defensive rebound as one of the team's main problems.

Although the Yellows dropped 18 rebounds in the attack, Fenerbahce also dropped the same amount after their fouls on the other end, and won the battle under the baskets just like Zalgiris did in Tel Aviv a week earlier.

"It's a subject that keeps the professional team members from sleeping," admitted one of Maccabi's members during the night, "on the face of it, it was supposed to be one of the elements of the game that we are more organized about, in light of the depth of interior players that we present, but in practice both teams celebrated us, and this Not only the centers. Most of the rebounds that are taken away from us come from the forward positions. We just don't do a good enough job of closing for the rebound."

The direct result of the disastrous closing was Fenerbahce's control and of course a loss in the game: "Although we slightly reduced the number of rebounds from the previous game, but over time, if we lose the rebound battles so prominently, we will not reach our goal," the club concluded.

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Scotty Wilbkin (Photo: GettyImages, Seskim Photo/MB Media)

3. Last night's game was all about Scotty Wilvkin and his meeting with his former team.

The guard opened the game with a three-pointer, but did not have a particularly big performance, with 12 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists.

Wilvkin met the people of Maccabi Tel Aviv and the players, talked with them and said goodbye to them, as the meeting in Tel Aviv in March should be much more exciting and emotional for him.

What surprised and added to the excitement was a tweet on Maccabi Tel Aviv's Twitter account a few hours before the game, which created a mess online.

The tweet compared Wilbkin's stats to Wade Baldwin's after one game, and after receiving a lot of negative comments - was removed by the Yellows.

The "Basket News" website flooded the tweet immediately, and Monaco player Mike James also responded to it like this: "Crazy".

Maccabi Tel Aviv explained even before the game that it was an automatic statistics generator that issued the tweet, something random, and when they realized the mess - the tweet was removed.

Gone in the second half.

Lorenzo Brown (photo: official website, Burak Saltik, Fenerbahce photographer)

4. Several hours before the game, Maccabi Tel Aviv agreed on the addition of Jaylen Adams, who will arrive in Israel in the coming days and strengthen the squad.

Adams, who played successfully last season in Hapoel Jerusalem, will need a few days to get into things, but should fill the combo guard slot that Maccabi thought they were missing.

The club estimated last night that Adams might be included in the second Euroleague game next week, against Villervan at Menorah Hall, but his integration should be gradual and over time, and he will have to work on the chemistry with the players he has not yet played with.

Austin Hollins got more than 11 minutes last night, as the club does not intend to release him as of now.

Maccabi Tel Aviv will wait patiently for Darren Hilliard's return from his knee injury before making decisions about Hollins, who in any case did not register for the league games, and after Hilliard proves that he has recovered, it is expected that the decision will be made to part with the player who came from Red Star Belgrade.

5. Unlike most Euroleague teams, Maccabi Tel Aviv gets a rest this weekend before the first double round of the European season.

The Yellows already played the league match against Kiryat Ata in the middle of last week as part of the second round, and will be able to concentrate on preparing for the meeting with Monaco this coming Tuesday, and then another match in the Euroleague, against Villerban on the fifth.

Maccabi admitted that the coming week will make it possible to formulate an initial direction regarding the question of where the team is going this season.

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