Maccabi Tel Aviv: Nikola Vujic announced that he will leave

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With all due respect to Maccabi Tel Aviv’s 86:79 loss to Barcelona tonight (Thursday), the big drama happened after the game. Nikola Vujic and the club’s management called a dramatic press conference, in which the club’s sporting director announced that he would retire at the end of the season. “After ten years of you trying to get a scoop out of me, I kept the last scoop for myself,” said Vujicic. “I do it in a strange way, but I have to do it. For 30 years, basketball has been my life, I haven’t had a single day to be with my family, out of the last 16 years, Maccabi is my life, as a team and as a manager. It’s a roller coaster , there were joys but also a mess. In the last few months, I felt that it was time for a basketball break and not to continue after the end of the season.”

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At the end, Oded Ketch was asked about the gaps between Maccabi Tel Aviv and the top teams in the Euroleague and admitted: “There are gaps, that doesn’t mean we don’t win. If we reach the games like we did today, we will reduce these gaps.” Ketch summed up the game and said: “We struggled offensively in the second half. It was an aggressive game, and there were also some whistles that took us out of our composure. We didn’t have such a great shooting day and it happens. I’m happy with the effort and our reaction, in the first half there was a very big effort, We were very aggressive, we deserved to take the lead. Barcelona is a good team, they make it difficult for you, they have a lot of ability and size. It’s not nice to lose, we really wanted to win, but unlike the game against Basconia, this time we won’t be disappointed for a lack of effort.”

About Brown and Baldwin who struggled in the last quarter, the coach said: “We were a little stuck in the fourth quarter, we lost a little of our composure, and still – we are playing with two dominant creators, they needed a little help. When they have a less good day, we will look a little less good. Let’s hope that with “Yellen Adams and Hilliard, we will get more creators.”

Oded Ketch, coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv
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At the press conference, the Maccabi Tel Aviv coach added: “We played against a very good team, they deserved to win. I like our attitude in this game, we left a lot of effort, we fought hard. We have many things to improve, but this is how we do it, with such effort. In the end, to beat a team like Barcelona you have to play a whole game. There was restlessness, the players ran very hard, it was very intense, we are a little shorter than Barcelona, ​​we were lacking more. This is a huge difference from the game against Basconi, which we lost for other reasons.

“Those who know and watch the Euroleague know that it is not easy. We did not expect in the summer, when we built the team, that things would go smoothly and we would win all the home games. Good and experienced teams with more continuity than ours do not manage to keep the house like us. There is no easy game in the Euroleague, certainly not Barcelona “.

The coach said about Wade Baldwin, who committed five fouls and committed two technical fouls: “We know Wade, he is tremendous for us, very offensive and very difficult for him. Until today’s game, he was able to control it, these are things we don’t want, he knows it, he needs To be focused on a daily basis and to be a leader for us. He is a young man who can learn and develop, he will also take a step forward in this direction.”

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