Moshe Barda 18/02/2021 08:24
Milan players (Itzik Belnitsky)
Milan will host Maccabi Tel Aviv tonight (Thursday, 21:45) when they come into the game as the third attacking team in the Euroleague, and when they do everything they can to avoid the cruel fate that Europe’s senior factory has experienced in recent years. Milan’s season started almost identical to previous years, the budget was and still is high, the names as always sparkling, the uniforms, according to tradition, incredibly fashionable, only in terms of results there is a positive change for it – so far it seems that contrary to any previous prediction relied on the painful Milanese past, the team here To stay.
Each game brings with it some stories worth following, ones that perhaps explain most of all the mindset at least around the season that the team should have, and as the season progresses also in which direction it is going. In the previous round the biggest story around the red shoe group was actually the owner, Giorgio Armani, and all he did when the Corona plague took its heavy toll from Italy. This time there are two stories – one is ostensibly more of a background story that has actually haunted Milan since the return of Ettore Messina from the world’s best league to Europe, straight into Milan’s open arms, and the other actually starts last Sunday.
Milan’s season so far is in line with expectations that have been strengthened by the faith, which we will reach later, and so far in the Euroleague (with a game in hand), Messina’s team is ranked third with a balance of 15 wins against 8 losses, in the domestic league it is ranked first with a balance of Only 15 wins and two losses, and since last Sunday she also holds the Italian Cup after crushing all her rivals.
The sweet trophy win has positioned Kyle Haynes as one of the most decorated American players in modern European basketball, but if we put statistics, wins and medals of heroism and honor aside for a moment, the latter became another milestone for Ettore Messina, as in the final against Pesaro the team returned to fashion. Lydie who has become one of the team’s anchors for sure and numerically is Messina’s most effective player.
Lydie’s numbers this season in the Euroleague stand at 10.3 points in a great percentage (50.4% for 2, 50% for 3 and 91.2% from the line) along with 4.7 rebounds, and a cumulative index of 299 – the highest in Milan when last season it also led the cumulative index. ‘Lagirs. In the cup final, I was injured and is due to undergo another medical examination of the injured muscle in just about a week and a half, so he will miss the game against Maccabi Tel Aviv. By the way, in the previous meeting against Maccabi, the Yellows managed to stop him and in fact become the second opponent in front of me, not scoring even one point. The first rival was Real Madrid, the third by the way was Barcelona.
Lydie’s lack, as well as the thinness (albeit temporary) in Messina’s squad, led the team directly to the player market under local restrictions, we were under foreign law and in this respect in the local league Milan actually took full advantage of the cap, the move of course led to the signing of Jacob Vogue Yinchowski as a local player, and in recent days bring Jeremy Evans, who played last year in a Himki uniform, to comprehensive medical tests in Thoman will decide in Milan whether to sign the player or not, having not actually played since last season.
Economically, Milan was not among the victims of the Corona moreover budget remains in the same area, only that usually when clubs recognize an opportunity to make a bigger season and feel that the penny is missing to a certain extent, then they try to make a move, probably in a season so far. Doing her a favor, to say the least. What has changed in Milan of the year in contrast to its versions in past years, is not the attitude, but the faith.
This season, more than ever, as reported in Italy, Milan believe the team can go all the way. They have a chance to lift the Euroleague Cup at the end of the season and this is also the reason why the club chose to strengthen not with one player but with two (in case Evans does sign). After all, the crashes that have characterized the team in previous years have almost completely disappeared, their basketball is effective and experienced, and for the first time in a while it also seems that the prediction regarding the Milanese reaching the playoffs seems legitimate, and almost a fait accompli. On the right path to return to the front of the stage.
