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Oded Ketch (Itzik Blanitsky)
Again Friday evening and once again Maccabi Tel Aviv looks the farthest away from that strong home team of Hichal Menorah Mitvathim. This time (Friday of course), the yellows from Tel Aviv, who played a terrible defensive game, fell apart in Spain against Real Madrid in a game that was actually decided already in the first quarter and ended with 98:65.
Oded Ketch He said: “Not an easy evening, certainly not the result and the way things happened. We started with 0 of 11 from the outside and it takes a lot of experience to succeed in a quarter like that and stay in the game. They managed to punish us with crazy percentages, there are days like that, certainly when playing against such a team. There are days like that, let’s hope there won’t be many more in the future.”
“We will take a little from this game and mostly try to forget it. When from the beginning things don’t go dramatically, you have to learn from it. We weren’t good enough, but we’re definitely better than that. We need to get stronger, more quality and until that happens we will continue to fight with what we have. There are many games that still wake me up at night, compared to those that could have been otherwise. I would buy this result at the end of the round.”
Josh Niebo He added: “A difficult game for us, we didn’t play well, we didn’t score and we also lost a lot of balls. A difficult evening. Credit to Real Madrid, they played great. We were solid in the first round, we could have been better, but overall we are in a good place. We will try to continue and improve in the second round as well.”
Jaylen Adams He said: “There is no doubt that it was a difficult game, they scored a lot against us. In any case, at this point we need to overcome the loss, forget about it and look at the bigger goal later in the second round of the Euroleague.”
