{"id":114584,"date":"2024-07-11T10:48:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T10:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=114584"},"modified":"2024-07-12T05:37:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T05:37:53","slug":"were-all-excited-for-the-tournament-shachar-doron-the-israel-u20-squad-ready-for-the-european-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/were-all-excited-for-the-tournament-shachar-doron-the-israel-u20-squad-ready-for-the-european-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"“We’re all excited for the tournament” Shachar Doron & the Israel U20 squad ready for the European Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Israel Under-20 Men\u2019s Basketball Team will get back to action when they take to the court for this year\u2019s European Championship taking place in Gdynia, Poland. The competition begins on Saturday and will run for 9 days with each of the 16 team split up into four groups playing three group stage games a piece which will be followed by the knockout contests starting with the Round of 16 going all the way to the finals.<\/p>\n

The blue-and-white will be in a group with Czechia, Italy and Germany and expectations are high after last year\u2019s tremendous performance that saw them go all the way to the championship game but came up just short against France. However, this squad is quite different than last year\u2019s version with numerous new players who have moved up from the Under-18 team, but head coach Elad Hasin\u2019s still has plenty of fire power to make some serious noise.
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Photo Credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nNoam Yaacov, who was named to last year\u2019s Team of the Tournament is back to captain Israel after just having signed with Hapoel Tel Aviv. The guard played the last number of season\u2019s in France with ASVEL Villeurbanne and has also featured in the Euroleague. <\/p>\n

In addition to the Danish born Yaacov who will no doubt be the unquestioned leader of the group, Shachar Doron will take the next step in his young career as the 19-year old who had a central role with Elitzur Shomron in the Leumit league this past year will be counted on to provide both scoring and creativity for Hasin\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

Just ahead of the tourney\u2019s tip off, Doron sat down with The Sports Rabbi to not only look ahead at the upcoming competition but also look back at an intense year that saw him play a number of games for Maccabi Tel Aviv, recuperate from an injury as well as being drafted by the Israel Defense Forces. But to begin with, Doron just like the rest of the delegation spoke about the country\u2019s current war with Hamas and its challenges.
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Shachar Doron – Photo Credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cWith everything that is happening in the country right now, the most important thing is to get the hostages back. Our thoughts are with them and as we head to Poland, we will have them with us. We are all excited for the tournament and we can\u2019t wait for it to begin but we also know that this is a privilege that we can compete. We don\u2019t have a goal to finish in first, second or third but we will do the best that we can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doron, who began playing basketball when he was four years old while attending an afterschool program comes from a family of athletes who encouraged him to follow his dreams. \u201cWhen I was growing up I really liked to watch Derrick Rose and now as I have evolved as a player I enjoy seeing Kostas Sloukas and Nando de Colo play as well as players similar to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

From afterschool basketball, Doron moved to Maccabi Tel Aviv\u2019s youth department where he continued to hone his skills and was able to see that he could one day be a pro player, \u201cMaccabi is without question the best in the country and they gave me the tools to improve as a player. When I was at the Euroleague Next Generation Tournament and I competed against players from many countries and I saw there that I could one day be a professional.\u201d
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Shachar Doron – Photo Credit: FIBA<\/p><\/div>
\nLast year, Doron featured for the Israel Under-18 team which finished their European Championship campaign in a very respectable 6th place and was one of the lead ball handlers and scorers for a team with 20 points per game while grabbing 4.1 rebounds and dishing out 4 assist per game. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe guys really believed in me,\u201d Doron continued. \u201cHead coach Sharon Avrahami gave me the freedom to do what I needed to and my teammates really helped me get to the hoop and believed in me and my abilities. But I also believe in myself and that is why I am able to get to where I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last season, Doron played an integral part of Elitzur Shomron\u2019s success in Israel\u2019s second division, but there had been rumors he would play with a first division club or even in Europe. But along with being one of the key players for Shomron he also worked with Maccabi Tel Aviv as well.
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Shachar Doron – Photo Credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cWith Shomron I was able to get playing time and also have the opportunity to match up against older and bigger players which was very helpful. There were discussions with Mega in Belgrade but the army made that an issue and Hapoel Jerusalem wasn\u2019t an option because I wanted to play. So at Shomron I was really able to play and improve my game plus Maccabi also gave me so much to help me out as well as I worked with Yotam Halperin. He\u2019s a great guy and really explained things so well. It was incredible to work with him, he was just great.\u201d <\/p>\n

However, Doron felt that he could have done more to help the team out, \u201cI\u2019m not happy as I could have done more, the injury I incurred with Maccabi kept me out for 2.5 months and when I came back it was tough mentally and I also didn\u2019t feel 100%. I don\u2019t think I was the best I could have been and I wasn\u2019t able to really show what I could do. Between the injury and army and being drafted near the end of the season it was tough. But I learnt so much and I can show what I can do here at the Under-20 European Championships.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with playing for Shomron last season, Doron also was able to make his first division debut with Maccabi Tel Aviv and played in 3 games when the war against Hamas was raging in the winter and the yellow-and-blue import players did not all return to Israel to play in the domestic league.
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Shachar Doron – Photo Credit: Dov Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cGeneral manager Avi Even called me and said that I may play with Maccabi and it was so exciting when a month or so later I was on the court for the senior team, it was so much fun. Tamir Blatt really helped a lot and Rafi Menco as well as Roman Sorkin were also great. Oded Katash, the head coach was fantastic and while I wasn\u2019t with him too much as it was only 3 games that I was with the team, I was able to learn what I could during that time.\u201d<\/p>\n

For next season, Doron still hasn\u2019t signed a contract but Netanya is an option for the guard who doesn\u2019t see himself as either a shooting guard or point guard but somewhere in between as he continues to improve his game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see myself as a player that can play between positions,\u201d Doron acknowledged. \u201cI\u2019m a very creative player that needs spaces and freedom. Maybe I\u2019m more of a combo guard that can play both positrons, like a 1.5. I want to be a scorer at the highest levels but I also know I have to work on some things whether it\u2019s my dribbling and also putting on more muscle and weight.\u201d
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Elad Hasin – Photo Credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nThis will be the first time Doron has really worked with Hasin although they crossed paths in the past and he sees it as a great opportunity to learn from one of the league\u2019s top bench bosses who has also been a part of the national team program for many years along with sharing the backcourt with Noam Yaacov.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s very different that many of the coaches that I have worked with in the past but I\u2019m sure things will be great as I will also be playing with Yaacov which will help my game as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the conversation comes to a close, Doron looked towards the future and spoke glowingly about Deni Avdija being the most famous person that he had ever met and made it clear what his biggest dream is in just 3 letters, \u201cNBA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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