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A big disappointment in Maccabi Tel Aviv after the 89:86 loss in the Tel Aviv derby last night (Saturday) to Hapoel at Hichal Shlomo.
The members of the team left about an hour after the game when their faces showed the feeling of missing out on a game that Maccabi "threw away", as some of the officials in the system defined it.
Twice the yellows managed to escape to a double-digit difference.
The first time was in the second quarter, but Hapoel came back, but the more significant time was in the middle of the last quarter, when Oded Ketch's team in a slightly different lineup with Jake Cohen, who rarely played, escaped to 61:73, and it seemed that their control of the game was finally achieved.
But then Maccabi stopped, let Xavier Manford of Hapoal take control of the game, and lost with some bad shots at the end and a bad decision from the timeout 3 seconds to the end.
"It's very frustrating. We need to understand how to win as a team, to go back to the basics," analyzed Bonzie Coulson at the end.
"We have to face difficulties as a team, no game will be easy. It doesn't matter if it's the league in Israel, the Euroleague - we have to stop with this pattern of leading and losing the advantage. We have to stay together and understand that good teams grow from difficulties."
Colson was asked about Manford's warm-up in the closing minutes and said: "Ax is a very talented scorer, it's a team effort to keep him. We lost him on a few moves and he exposed us. He made shots, stayed focused and he deserves credit, but it's about us. We stay focused in the second On both sides of the field, this pattern needs to be stopped."
Finally, the forward who scored 17 points concluded: "We need to understand how to win games, stay together as a team. Understand how to execute on both sides of the field. We need to stop the teams' runs, make adjustments, be more disciplined. This is not our identity, we need to understand the This. We need to come together, and when the other team goes on a run, quickly understand what we are doing to stop it, offensively and defensively. If we don't make adjustments, it will be a long season. We are a talented team, there are obstacles, this is a difficult part of the season, every team has its part This one. It's a long season, we have to get through this bumpy road."
Bonzie Colson also knows: this is a testing time for Maccabi Tel Aviv/Danny Maron
The nerves in Maccabi Tel Aviv were also clearly visible during the game.
When Maccabi started making mistakes in the last quarter, there were exchanges and accusations between players on the bench in the last quarter, including Wade Baldwin shouting at Rafi Manko.
Some of the players who got few minutes reacted with faces on the bench.
"We have to stay together, our goal is to win games like this," said one of the yellow players when leaving the hall.
"It's not a good sign, even if it's natural. We need to know how to overcome these things."
Oded Ketch was once again at the center of criticism from the team members for his management of the game in the last quarter, mainly for keeping John DiBartholomew out for too many minutes, and when he brought him in, the captain quickly committed his fifth foul.
The decision to take out Jake Cohen, who managed the game in his minutes on the field with 4 assists in 8 minutes, index 8 and showed that he belongs on the field, was not accepted lightly either.
"There was a feeling that there wasn't a mistake we didn't make in the last minutes. We went through everything," said one of the Maccabi people, "We needed this victory, and when you lead by 12 in the last quarter and lose here, it's simply unacceptable."
By the way, Ketch said at the end of the game that he is responsible for the entire system, including what happens in the last few minutes, without referring to specific decisions, and admitted that he would have to see the video of the game to understand what exactly happened.
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Ketch and the players of Maccabi Tel Aviv/Danny Maron
Tomorrow (21:05) Maccabi will host Kiryat Ata in a complete game from the first round.
The game was originally supposed to be held on October 8, and the Yellows were supposed to arrive at noon on the day the war broke out at Menorah Hall to start preparing for Sharon Abrahami's group for the opening game of the season.
It is not clear when and how much time they will have to prepare for the game this time.
Ketch revealed last night that it is very possible that Lorenzo Brown will sign up to face Kiryat Ata to get a few minutes and remove some rust and see if he is back to his senses.
Brown has been absent from the games for the past week after feeling cramping and discomfort in his back before the match against Virtus Bologna ten days ago.
Maccabi believes that even if Brown does not play in the league on Monday, he will be able to take part in the match against Panathinaikos this coming Thursday.
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