“In games like this you have to work on the mental side”

It has become almost a regular practice, after a loss in Europe Maccabi Tel Aviv is recovering in the local arena, when tonight (Thursday) the Israeli champion, who was defeated on Tuesday against Andulo Zero in the arena, traveled this time at Maccabi against Maccabi Rishon Lezion with 72:89 over the exes, Guy Goodes And Jeremy Fargo.

Yannis Sapropoulos He said: “We started really focused from the start, we did not allow for the first time to play their good offensive game. I think we had a good offensive game, six players finished in double digits, moved the ball. Elijah Bryant started very well and we used players well, I am very satisfied “The key was the third quarter, in the good defense they lost a lot of balls, and on the other hand we scored points in the passing game and we got confidence.”

“We have to work mostly mentally. It’s game after game for us, there’s nowhere to work tactically. We wanted to conserve energy, and the only way to change that momentum was on the psychological side and we succeeded in that. Only Ante Žižić played 30 minutes because Othello Hunter had a minor leg injury and we did not want to endanger him. All the other players played for about 20 minutes and I think we divided the minutes in a way that would maintain our best level tonight. Elijah was very good today offensively and defensively, he started defending Fargo and did a good job on him. “

Guy Goodes He said: “Three foreigners against five and four citizens against zero, we are not used to playing two games by such a short margin. We played against Herzliya a few days ago, Maccabi feels in the Euroleague as we feel against it in the league, we do not have the size to face Zizić ‘In color. At the moment 0: 3 for them, maybe in the fourth game in two months there will be a boom. In all the games against them it was difficult for us intensely and aggressively, we have a hard time with it. We do not have the size we had last season. We have to make our adjustments over time, Wilson “Gives us a size that we lacked today, we did not want to endanger it. A lot of water will flow to the cup, who knows what staffs will be until then.”

Noam Dovrat and Scotty Wilbkin (Itzik Belnitsky)

“Igor Kolshov also played a lot of minutes in the previous term, at the end of that season we made changes and it did not fit and we asked him. It’s important to us to have someone else with experience on the staff in the struggles today who will give a body. Believes he will be fine. It was important to us in Wilson’s absence to bring back Noam Avivi, he is a talented kid but he must improve his aggression on the defensive side, once he does that he will rise to the level. He had a good game, he was active after a period that his back bothered him, we will need every player for struggles. It was also important for me to give Fleischer minutes. “