Tiktukno: summary of today's events in sports, 10.11 (Sport1)
Maccabi Tel Aviv worked fast last summer.
On July 4, Jarl Martin signed, the last of the foreigners who joined during the break, and on his face closed the squad for the 2022/23 season.
Four days after Martin's signing, Maccabi Tel Aviv still had a tough time.
In the team they saw one quite clear problem - position number 4, which in recent years was filled by Angelo Cloiaro.
"When the squad was completed, it was quite clear that there was something unbalanced in this position," said one of the Maccabi people this week.
"We put a lot on Jarl Martin, a player with no experience in Europe, when the ones who are supposed to help him in this position are Alex Poithers and Bonzie Coulson. We understood even then that it would not be easy."
At the same time, news began to emerge about talks between the Yellows and Kyle Wilcher, a power forward with experience in Europe and the Euroleague, but the club was in no rush to add a ninth foreigner.
The decision fell through, Wilcher was not added and Maccabi started the season that way.
It may be the decision that separates a good season for the yellows from a great season.
When he is on the field, Maccabi Tel Aviv flourishes.
Bonzie Coulson (Photo: Danny Maron)
"It doesn't make sense that a team that looks bad at the start will look better after 10 minutes," said Oded Ketch yesterday at the press conference, referring to the fact that he did not change his selection, and continues to put Alex Poithers and Josh Niebo together in the top five in every Euroleague game.
Poithers has already admitted that he is trying to get used to the position he played in quite a few years ago, and the fact is that Maccabi Tel Aviv does not start the games well with this lineup.
Maccabi Tel Aviv's best minutes come when Bonzie Colson is on the field.
Colson is the player with the highest plus/minus index, plus 65, when the team itself is minus 5. In each of Maccabi's games, he finished with a score higher than the difference on the scoreboard.
On average, the team is behind by 11.6 points in the 16.3 minutes he sits on the bench on average per game.
The Yellows' 34 lineups are in a positive plus/minus so far this season: Coulson is included in 22 of them, and in all the best 12, when in eight of the 12 he played in the number 4 position. By the way, the only player in Maccabi who comes close to Coulson in plus/minus is C And Nivo, with plus 16 - 49 points behind.
On the other side of the equation are Poithers and Martin, with minus 30 and 36 respectively.
"It is clear to everyone that our best minutes are with Bonzi on the field," said one of Maccabi Tel Aviv's men yesterday before the afternoon training session, "whether it is in position 3 or position 4, it is less important. He infects the team."
The very fact that Coulson is the only one in Ketch's squad who can play both forward positions at a sufficiently high level, something that Angelo Kluiaro has done at Maccabi in recent years, is probably the answer to the riddle.
This is compounded by the fact that the professional team does not give many minutes to Martin, who is returning from injury, when those around the team claim that he deserves another opportunity, "It is very difficult for a player in his first year in Europe to get used to the system and everything, and especially when it is his first year in the Euroleague," the team says, "We knew it would take time with Jarl, he didn't come here for nothing, he is a player with high abilities and we need to know how to get that out of him."
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Does not adapt to position 4. Alex Poithers (Photo: Danny Maron)
Maccabi Tel Aviv's problem in position number 4, where it shares players that is not really their natural role, is a problem that quite a few teams in Europe encounter - including the big ones.
Barcelona, who will host Yed Eliyahu tonight without the injured Nikola Mirotic, is playing most of the minutes in this position with Mike Tobey, who was signed as a backup after Mirotic was injured, although he is more of a center.
Anadolu Efes plays in position 4 with Will Clyburn, Fenerbahçe also diverts players in light of the injury of Nemanja Bejlica at the start of the season, and in Monaco, John Brown, who is currently more suited to position 5, fulfills the role of power forward alongside Adrian Mourame.
"The players on the continent that you can say about them were net players for position 4 are few," said Lavala!
Sports one of the Euroleague team scouts.
"Players who are suitable to play this position here, do not necessarily play it in the NBA, for example, both because of the differences in size and because of the differences in style. This creates a situation where a lot of small players for position 4 or big players, creates mis-matches, and quite often If you managed to bring a good player to this position, it changes the whole picture."
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