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Sussman’s Statistics and Rhetoric

In the summer of 2017, 19-year-old Yuval Sussman looks like the next thing in Israeli basketball. The star of the reserve team was signed for four years at Maccabi Tel Aviv, in the summer of 2018 he led the young team to win the European Championship and was elected MVP of the tournament, in January 2019 he scored 15 points in the Euroleague victory over CSKA in Moscow, and even tried to reach the NBA. This season, how unfortunate, there has been a regression in him, and last week he even went back to childhood.

That was after the win over Basconia, in which he contributed 11 points, three assists and three rebounds. Not exactly a triple-double, but finally a significant factor in the group, which also justifies an interview at the end. “What has changed in Yuval Sussman?” Was asked, and then began the hallucinatory show for preschoolers.

“I want to say something small to all the kids at home,” Sussman replied, even though it was almost midnight and most of the kids were on the dream team. “Anyone who wants to harm you, and articles do to your detriment, do not listen to it.” At this point it was not yet clear who the evil that defames children is, and why?

But suddenly Sussman turned to the left, waved his hand as if ghosts were floating there, and continued: “They can talk and you know, brainwashing, it’s not interesting. Keep working hard, physically, mentally, professionally, basketball, everything will be fine. Even if in the game “Next I score zero or 20 airballs, it does not matter. Be who you are.” The parents who remained awake received the message with mixed feelings. On the one hand, you will know who these creatures on the left are, who are chopping children’s minds. On the other hand, it is good to know that even if Sussman continues to miss, their descendants will be able to maintain their identity.

He then said that “an assist is the most beautiful thing in basketball,” and when the interviewer remarked, “You are not a robot, you see and you read,” the mystery was solved. “I do not see,” Sussman interrupted. “Yesterday I received an article, a man brought me the article, I tore it in front of his eyes. It can be thrown in the trash. I do not read this nonsense, for better or worse” … At a good time, children, the abduction came out of the trash. Someone (who happens to be a human being) brought Sussman an article about his declining marginal output, and he not only threw it in the trash, but also threw it at all the children of Israel.

How did he know what was written in it if he tore it before he read, and did he hit the trash or did he miss? It’s hard to know, but since these are kids, it’s important to broaden the picture. On the day the article was published, Maccabi Tel Aviv lost to Olympiacos. Sussman played 21 minutes, and recorded a statistic of zero points, one rebound and a single assist. In the eight Euroleague games in which he participated, his averages were 13 minutes, 2.8 points, 1.9 rebounds and 0.6 assists. (Which is the most beautiful thing in his opinion in basketball).

In an interview he gave before the start of the previous Euroleague season, Sussman said: “To this day I remember that in my first training I scored five baskets” … It is interesting that he did not tell how many assists he had. But for one thing, kids, Yuval is absolutely right: even if he “scores zero points or 20 Airballs” you will remain who you are, and most importantly these days: Do not be afraid of shots!

Zvika Sharaf is afraid of strangers

Competition, as anyone involved in sports knows, is an important thing. But some foreign coaches who came to the Premier League put so much pressure on the system that the Basketball Association and the Ministry of Culture and Sports were called to their aid and compiled a list of criteria that would make it difficult to employ them. Like it’s the jobs league.

Failing coaches who have become commentators have no problem getting down on strangers, but when it comes to our own snooping? What did you want, for Erez Edelstein to ruin a relationship with Oded Katash? Israeli coaches who get jobs abroad are also beautiful. If the Czechs, for example, had adopted the strict demands placed on foreign coaches in Israel, Oren Amiel would never have coached Nymburk, and would have promoted her to the next stage of the Champions League.

And the youngest came out this week, Zvika Sharaf. “Stepping on the Israeli coaches,” the forced whine complained (who coached in Greece, France, Poland and Russia), flattered some of his friends in the homeland, and spoke to colleagues from abroad as if it were a foreign job. Yannis Sapropoulos? This year “; Dainius Adumatis in Jerusalem? “The fact that he was out of work”; Yannis Castritis? “Hapoel Tel Aviv is not good”; Brad Greenberg? “Has anyone done more to him in Ashdod or less? Has anyone done more than him or less than him in Ness Ziona? “… Maccabi Haifa, where no one has won a championship like him, has somehow forgotten.

And what does he think of her current coach, Daniel Savannah of Venezuela? To this, Sharaf answered with a question that should be rhetorical: “Maccabi Haifa in last place in the league, so what does that say about him?” … An excellent reason to remember the interviewee’s last place of work – Maccabi Rishon LeZion.

In November 2018, it was defeated by 34 points by Maccabi Tel Aviv (quite by chance, it was also Sapropolos’ debut game), sank in last place in the table, and Sharaf was fired. So what does that say about him?

Maccabi Haifa, Noble and the BBQ

Last week, in the first training session of the graduate of the minor affair Omar Atzili at Maccabi Haifa, waves of barbecues were brought to the village. They were placed in a parking lot in the heart of the training complex, near the field, at the entrance to the dining room, and two staff members roasted the meat on the fire. All of this is in the midst of the closure, with the number of patients and deaths rising, and the guidelines of the Ministry of Health and the administration requiring “ensure that only members of the group who performed medical examinations are required to be in the training complex.” The guests, it is important to note, measured heat for the coals.

The leagues administration was not exactly excited and responded: “An inquiry conducted with Maccabi Haifa shows that the food was provided without direct contact between the supplier and the players.” The club itself preferred to settle for the same vegetarian version. Strange, because even if the meat was served to players with bone protectors, the mangalist is not defined as a vital worker, and the Corona Cabinet has not approved steakway teams.

Care was taken to keep the event in Shoshu present. An actor who uploaded a photo of the BBQ on Instagram was quick to remove it, and one attendee testified in panic that he had been asked not to speak. This is how the convert – who recently sang “Maccabi Haifa Hezbollah” – became the flesh and blood of the club, and perhaps even sang: Maccabi Haifa eats.

The poor broadcast of Ganz and Trooper

“Following a joint appeal by Defense Minister and Communications Minister Benny Gantz and Culture and Sports Minister Hili Trooper to the Cable and Satellite Council, to work to find a solution to broadcast the Women’s Basketball Super League game to be held as part of the Women’s Eurocup,” the channel said in response to the council’s request to broadcast the game.

This was the announcement, probably for the first time in history, in which two ministers announced the broadcast of one game, which was held in two frames simultaneously. At the same time, the Women’s League administration announced that the broadcast from Turkey was made possible on the initiative of its chairman, Hila Knister Bar-David.

Then came the game against the Hungarian Miskolc, which was even broadcast on two channels, apparently a tribute to the pair of ministers. It was such a shameful internet broadcast that at one point someone accidentally minimized the screen, so that even 75-inch TV owners got a game the size of a laptop. A clock that shows how much time is left for the attack was not, and in the last attack of the first half did not show a pretty significant object in the game: the basket. The opening of the second half was not broadcast at all, perhaps due to a glitch in the Fi-Wi connection.

No hitchhiker has taken responsibility for the disgraceful disregard for basketball, but now at least we all know that for a ridiculous broadcast, the combined action of the head of the administration with the ministers of defense, media, culture and sports is not necessary. Enough of the Buzaglo family’s fast router.

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