Another disappointing home loss, once again the momentum was cut short. Maccabi Tel Aviv surrendered 78:72 to the surprising Zenit St. Petersburg, and closed an entire round in the Euroleague without being able to connect more than two victories in a row. With that, the Yellows went down to a balance of 10: 7 at the factory, and the ticket to the top eight at the end of the regular season goes away.
“For a home game, our energy was pretty low,” he admitted Tyler Dorsey. “Othello (Hunter) came out and the coach tried different lineups, but it was hard, and we tried to figure it out there. Not sure we have to win at home, that’s the thing here. We just could not figure out how to play sometimes. That’s it, we can not figure out how “There are many more games, we must forget and continue what we have done in recent games. We will have to be ready for the next game.”
also Yannis Sapropoulos Referring to the energies: “Our energy was not high enough. We tried to change the lineups and be faster. The fact that they started well on offense and scored kept us low most of the time in the game. We tried to get back in the game and we came back, but I think in the last quarter the players fought and brought the maximum. “We had a chance to come back one basket behind, and that did not happen.”
The coach summed up the match: “We started very well in the first quarter, did a great job and controlled the game. We had good options on offense that we missed, and they scored 2-3 baskets from the other side and went up very quickly to an 8-9 advantage, then we panicked and did not have to go into it. “We should not have let the game get to that. We should have played like in the first quarter. Jerusalem on Thursday? We must forget about it to move on to the next game.”
