Winner League Basket 20-21
Game board
Cycle 16 – 14/02/2021
- Hapoel Jerusalem
- 66 – 94
- Hapoel B’Sh
- Urban Ness Ziona
- 89 – 84
- Hapoel Eilat
- Gilboa / Galil
- 79 – 92
- Urban Nahariya
- Maccabi Tel Aviv
- 81 – 100
- Hapoel Holon
- Bnei Herzliya
- 79 – 91
- Hapoel Haifa
- Maccabi Rishon LeZion
- Thursday, 11/03, 7 p.m.
- Hapoel Tel Aviv
ONE System | 16/02/2021 16:58
Yiftach Ziv (courtesy of the Israel national team)
After being excellent in the previous game window in November, and with a good season at Hapoel Gilboa / Galil, Yiftach Ziv arrives at the current Israeli team window with hope of being more significant, especially when captain Gal Makal is not available for the team, and the Israeli guards will have to give quite a bit to cover His absence in the pair of EuroBasket 2020 qualifiers against Romania and Spain in Poland.
“The situation of this period is a little different. We came here and two got a positive result so we started a bit on the left foot, but we are optimistic,” he said. splendor From snowy Poland. “I am in a good time personally, I am learning more about myself and my game, the value I can give to the team and the team. I am happy that I get the opportunity and time on the team, to contribute and give what I can. As long as I get I will try to give back as much as possible.” .
The disadvantage of a stick wave: “In general any situation at any time when one player is missing, so the others have to come and complete his place and minutes. I will be happy for every second I get, I will take it with both hands and try to give back as much as I can.”
His feelings upon arriving at the national team games: “It’s fun to change the atmosphere. In recent years with these windows it’s a bit of a phase change in the middle of the season and getting out of the comfort zone. It’s a different basketball, a different coach, other players. When you get on the team with friends you go through years and years it’s fun. It’s great, it’s one of the hopes and goals you set for yourself when you were a child, it’s a great privilege and fun. “
Goals in games against Romania and Spain: “The goals are first and foremost to win. I think to connect to the process we went through in the last two years. To build good chemistry between all the players, we are many players who know and run for many years together and I believe there is something special here. It is another preparation for the European Championships.”
Is it possible to qualify for the world championship as well: “To say we are not aiming and do not want to be there is not true to say, it can be done. Even at the beginning of the current campaign there were question marks but we proved we did it right. The goal of reaching the world championship is not a bad word, we aim there and we will do everything.”
Snow in Poland: “I’m not one to have seen a lot of snow in life, so seeing and experiencing it live is something special. Less feeling the cold but everything is white and beautiful, festive atmosphere and I hope we achieve the victories and it will be sweet.”
