Great concern at Maccabi Tel Aviv. Yuval Sussman injured his knee tonight (Monday) in the league game against Nahariya and was forced to seek medical treatment during the first quarter. The Yellows fear that the Israeli was not lightly injured in the knee, but at the moment it does not appear that this is an injury to the cruciate ligament. In any case, he will undergo an MRI scan the night after which the severity of the injury will be determined.
So what actually happened? 3:30 Drot to end the first quarter, Joe Alexander tried to penetrate the basket. The forward knocked down Angelo Cloiaro who blocked him directly towards Sussman’s knee, which apparently resulted in injury. In the video at the top of the article, it can be seen that the forward measured in pain before he had to get off the floor. “He felt something in his knee, will do an MRI and we will know more details what it is exactly,” he said Yannis Sapropoulos At the end of the game. “We also expect Scotty (Wilbkin) to have a thumb problem and Othello (Hunter) to be ill.”
As is well known, Sussman suffered a long-term injury in the past, when he was injured in game number 2 in the playoff quarterfinal series against Hapoel Tel Aviv – a partial rupture of the Achilles tendon – and was absent until about two and a half months ago.
Since returning from his last injury, Sussman has played in 11 Euroleague games in which he averaged 2.6 points, 1.5 rebounds and 0.6 assists. In addition to participating in ten Premier League games, he scored 8 points, dropped 3.5 rebounds and handed out 1.6 assists.
Asked about the game, the Greek coach added: “I do not want to talk about the game, only about the crowd. We missed them, their love and their support. Not only now, even before I coached the team is connected to the crowd and this virus did not let us fight together. I hope now slowly “More will come until we fill the hall. The players understand that without training we must play well in the games and get better from the games.”
He also talked about the audience John Dibertolomao: “We know how important they are to us and we felt it when we missed it. They were energetic and behind us for 40 minutes today. It feels great, we played the way we wanted on both sides of the pitch, glad the fans came back.”