The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Economics lesson - Diminishing Marginal Product | Israel today

2023-01-14T08:27:24.445Z


Maccabi Tel Aviv has a condensed squad that requires social, but not professional, changes • Oded Ketch needs to know how to work with it in an orderly manner and according to each opponent, in order to get the most out of each player • The change should come quickly, to minimize losses


The almost single thing I remember from studying two semesters of Economics 1 at Tel Aviv University with Rami Shalom HaGaon, was the Law of the Fields and Diminishing Marginal Productivity:

" Decreasing

marginal

productivity

is a

well-known

phenomenon

mainly

in factories

( and

agricultural

farms

).

The phenomenon

manifests itself in the

fact

that as

we

add

more

and more

workers

,

in

the existing state

of

the factory

,

their contribution

to increasing

the factory 's

output

is getting

smaller

.

"In

extreme cases, the

addition

of workers

only

causes

damage - negative marginal productivity

.

Such

extreme

phenomena

happen

when

there is a lot of

crowding

in the

factory

.

Workers

,

most of

whom

are

unprofessional

,

move around

unsupervised

and make

errors

that cause

damage

.

It should

be emphasized that the

analysis of

the phenomenon

of

diminishing

marginal

productivity

refers to an

existing

situation

in the factory

,

namely

:

the factory

did not

increase

its

area

,

did not

buy

new

machines

,

did not

train

workers

,

etc.

And I return to the end of the column about the game against Partizan and Oded Ketch's statement after the victory on Wednesday: "We need to thicken the squad."

Maccabi actually has too many players, who require social rather than professional exchanges, and a bit step on each other's toes.

Learn to use what you have and you won't need what you don't have.

And below is the proof stage.  

Maccabi finished 2022 with four wins from five games, including two away victories in Milan and Berlin, and an impressive home victory over the European champions.

Then came 2023, Wade Baldwin returned to the squad, and since then: a defeat in Madrid, one good quarter against Partizan, and a loss to the worst team in the Euroleague under a streak of six losses and without its audience.

Gift game.

This is what happened to the players who led the "new" Maccabi at the end of the previous round: a steep decline in Brown's form, John Dee was deleted, Adams disappeared, Sorkin does not mention himself.

And it's not really because of Baldwin directly (the truth is a bit directly because of his soloist nature), but mostly because the oiled rotation has been damaged, and thus everyone provides less production.

Classical diminishing marginal productivity.

Examples: 

Austin Hollins is a charming and talented guy.

But in his three minutes, Maccabi lost by 8 points, which mainly included an illusory three-pointer that he threw at the first touch of the ball.

Manko and especially Hilliard did not play at all even though Maccabi did not hit from the three (except for Colson's zone).

John Dee played 4 minutes in the first half and contributed nothing, Adams the same in 6 minutes.

catch

Doesn't fit the rotation, photo: Alan Shiver

Maccabi lost the game in the first half on the altar of Ketch's insistence on Baldwin, and especially on his shared minutes with Brown, a field that does not yield any grain at all, not to mention an empty field.

The first five were good with the return of Jake Cohen to it, but around the fifth minute the social round begins or maybe the regular check "Who came today?", and the good game crumbles.  

Maccabi's most important player is number 15, the one who started the season as the 15th player in the squad.

Jake Cohen almost moved to Holon at the beginning of the season, and has eaten a lot of bitterness at Maccabi in recent years, including escaping to Galicia two years ago.

He balances the whole team, always lovingly gives the extra pass, and pulls the defense from the 3rd line - he is a real stretch 4 next to Nibo.

In the opening, he is the one who with his hands got Colson into things with two brilliant assists, and even calmed down ex Derrick Williams after his technical.

Jake Cohen.

Class with zero effort, photo: Oded Karni

How classy with zero effort.

One mistake from a hair pin did not justify its excessive drying.

You don't need everyone to score.

And in the last few minutes, when he needed brains and not just muscles, he didn't take off his sweatpants.

I'm willing to sign that Cohen would have played more, Colson would have scored 50 and Maccabi would have won.

But he only played 7 and a half minutes.

parable.

And even Baldwin himself has a part in the regression.

His solo play, with the full backing of Ketch, does not improve the team or promote it.

One assist that came with two minutes to go.

Zero from 11 to three in the last two games.

Ketch's clear instruction must be - go to the basket, you are not allowed to shoot a three-pointer, and for each shot you must also make one pass.

Baldwin.

Gets excessive backing from Ketch, photo: Panathinaikos, official website

Maccabi goes to the line the fewest in the Euroleague (14 per game) and in close games this is a dramatic factor.

Even in the last ball, the instruction had to be to go to the ring and draw a foul, and not a hard shot from half distance.

Although he hits them with relatively good percentages, he also missed his previous shot from there, a few seconds before, which was forgotten thanks to Coulson's correction.

Little things that matter.

Bonzi was in a crazy and rare zone, but the truth is that his three three-pointers at the end were unplanned desperation shots, and without him Maccabi would have lost by a bigger margin.

He collected his shots quite by accident, at the end of the attack when the ball came to him not through drill or intention.

He also continues with the teasing and the childish shows, and suddenly I thought - maybe this is what gets him into sex?

Still not justified and must stop.

Not because Maccabi will be punished, but because it doesn't fit the level and status.

Derrick Williams.

Revenge of the Ex, photo: Panathinaikos, official website

Since the beginning of the season, many good things have happened at Maccabi, and a lot of good work by Oded Ketch.

A team strategy has been established - excellent pressure that brings steals and delays to the opponent, zoning and chops that produce difficult shots, a running game that produces some easy baskets.

There is a portfolio of group abilities, and now you need specific group and personal tactics for each game.

Who do you shut down, who do you prevent the ball from in defense, who do you attack when it's hot, and what special drill do you use.

The team requires delicate directions and balances, but as Oded himself said about the defense: "We didn't guard, we didn't interfere."

Papaianis ignores the Maccabi defense.

A few centimeters are missing, photo: Panathinaikos, official website

The most American sandwich is the BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato).

But Maccabi didn't make a bacon sandwich, they left one guard on him, and he opened her appetite and the thought that she could win.

And until Maccabi had already shut him down correctly once, Walters penetrated and found Williams for the winning basket.

Revenge of the Exes.

But Maccabi didn't lose there, but long before.

And the player who really made the difference was the giant Papayanis with several big moves, to which Maccabi had no answer simply because of the lack of centimeters.

It's already related to building the team in the summer, and it doesn't seem like it can be fixed, except for unnecessary dense zoning.

Conclusions and directions of action: a.

release Hollins and Hilliard now (very expensive contracts, you can save a lot of money), b.

Making sure that Jake Cohen or John Di is always on the field.

third.

Until proven otherwise, play with either Baldwin or Brown but not both.

And now let's see how Yaftach Ziv and Rafi Manko felt about the statement about their coach's thin staff.

Herzliya came on Monday to repeat the previous season in the cup, and the black workers return to the front of the stage.

It's just that they have already stepped not only on their feet, but also on their egos.

Each field also needs to be watered a little.

were we wrong

We will fix it!

If you found an error in the article, we would appreciate it if you shared it with us

Source: israelhayom

All sports articles on 2023-01-14

You may like

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.