27 games until 11.4: Maccabi against a crazy schedule

Winner League Basket 20-21

Moshe Barda 04/02/2021 07:50

Sussman, Wilbkin and Yannis Sapropoulos (Itzik Belnitsky)

Maccabi Tel Aviv recorded a 60:95 victory last night (Wednesday) over Maccabi Haifa, but it seems that after the game the team is still trying to get used to the reality that was forced on them in terms of the busy schedule, which is a product of postponing games in both the league and Euroleague. Lianis Sapropoulos and his trainees are expected to play another 27 games until April 11, when March in the Euroleague brings with it two weeks with a double game cycle.

The Yellows wanted to quickly complete their missing league games, so it was decided that instead of the postponed Euroleague rounds, the team will complete a league game, and the next league game of the state champion will be on Friday against Rami Hadar Hapoel Beer Sheva, the team is already looking at the game. We need to take the same approach. “

The approach they talked about in the team refers to the way Yannis Sapropoulos’ players started the game against Maccabi Haifa, “Yannis drove them crazy in defense”, they said around the team, and indeed throughout the game even when his trainees had an advantage that crossed the 30 point mark, Yannis continued to comment on The rebounds and the defense. The result of the madness in question from the very first second was 35 points, with Scotty Wilbkin and the rest of his teammates just blazing.

Dragon Bender squeezed compliments after the game for his ability on the defensive side of Roman Sorkin, who was recalled in talks with the Yellows last summer. Bender provided a statistic of 7 points, five rebounds and five assists while also holding the highest +/- index in the team with 28+. In addition to him, Maccabi really liked to see the youngsters on the floor (Yonatan Atias, Dori Sahar and Idan Alber), when in the minutes they played the team maintained its advantage, and in fact they all finished with a positive +/- index. After the game, Yuval Sussman finished the game with 5 points, along with 6 rebounds, four assists and 2 steals, but with 0/3 over the arc, returned to the floor to work on the shot from three, accompanied by the team’s fitness coach, Regev Fanan.

After the game he said Dori Sahar: “I start to feel more and more confident, it all starts with training, I feel like the coaches give me back, I feel like the guys in the locker room give me back, and I just feel confident and that’s the most fun to be on the field, I just enjoy. From a young age I dreamed and would come “Here to the hall every Thursday and I would sit here and dream of being on the field in these moments and I know I will work as hard as I can, we have the best shell I could ask for, they give me all the tools so I can fulfill all my goals.”

Sahar, Caspi, Dibertlomao and Žižić (Itzik Blanicki)

“I can say that the youth department and the young people have already worked with us as correctly as possible, and we have Maccabi Academy. In a new high school, we would also come to work in the mornings and there is no substitute for hard work and the coaches went down with us to the smallest details so we can now show what we know and what we have learned “, added Sahar who referred to Abdia:” Danny is my friend and I am very proud of him. Who was in his time here was his hard work, he was always the first to get to the hall and the last to go, and he was just the hardest worker and like I said there is no substitute for hard work and now you can see where he is. He has a lot of talent but also a lot of hard work. ”