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Hard feelings at Maccabi Tel Aviv: "an evening we would like to forget" | Israel today

2023-01-07T06:49:01.232Z


The Yellows who were defeated in Madrid are trying to find optimism • Ketch: "We have to keep our heads up. There will be a few nights like this and games in the season, but I hope not many"


After several weeks in which it seemed that there had been an improvement in Maccabi Tel Aviv and the team got on a positive path with six consecutive victories in all formats and an improved defense, Real Madrid arrived last night (Friday) with a very lacking lineup and shattered every sliver of hope the Yellows had in the last few weeks and inflicted a painful loss on them 98 :65, in a game that was one-sided for 40 minutes.

The Huisnik Center Arena in the capital of Spain, the home stadium of the Blancos, has not been kind to Maccabi Tel Aviv in the last decade and last night was no different.

The last away victory of the Yellows in Madrid was in March 2010, since then they have recorded 14 consecutive losses, when the record margin for loss in this decade which was 29 points from last year's 95:66 defeat was broken last night and increased to 33 points.

"We have to keep our heads up. There will be a few nights like this and games in the season, but I hope not many," Oded Ketch shared in pain at the end.

"Nothing went our way from the beginning, but it can happen especially against a team like Real. We have to keep improving, keep working hard. It can happen, but we have to learn from it and keep our heads up."

The Yellows hoped to take advantage of the positive momentum and the return of Wade Baldwin to the courts after a month due to injury, but had trouble dealing with the size and depth of the Whites, shot at bad percentages from all ranges (19.4% for three, 7 points in the first quarter) and fell apart defensively, with the star being held to only 3 points in the game His return, a seasonal negative record for him.

Adams, yesterday in Madrid, photo: EPA

"We started the game in the first quarter with 0 of 11 and it takes a lot of experience to succeed in such a quarter, we also had to do things we are not used to. Real managed to punish us with crazy percentages, over 50% for threes and almost nothing was successful for us neither in defense nor in attack. There are days like this, the most important thing is that we keep the spirit, the togetherness and continue to work hard. There is little to take from this game, we should mainly forget about it," Ketch honestly concluded.

Jaylen Adams, who was one of the few bright spots in the game and led the list of scorers for the yellows with 15 points, shared his feelings at the end: "It's a tough game for us, we'll have to keep our heads up and get out of it as a team. I think that in general as a team we started to start towards the end of the round, so we went up Quickly forget about tonight and look forward to the second round which will bring with it new challenges and new opportunities for us."

The host's defense managed to shut down the yellow stars and stopped Lorenzo Brown for only 9 points, along with Baldwin's 3, with the entire team passing the 20-point mark in a quarter only once.

"Difficult game for us, we didn't play well, we couldn't make the shots we usually make. It just wasn't our day," shared his feelings at the end of Josh Niebo who contributed 11 points.

Maccabi Tel Aviv does not have much time to recover from the loss and already tomorrow evening they will host Hapoel Haifa as part of the second round of the Winner League, in a double week during which Partizan Belgrade will also come to the Menorah Mitvahim Hall on Wednesday, while two days later the Yellows will play in Athens against the Greek Panathinaikos.

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Source: israelhayom

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