{"id":157177,"date":"2025-09-30T08:29:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=157177"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:29:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:29:42","slug":"making-the-playoffs-is-difficult-lets-get-through-8-10-rounds-and-then-well-talk-katash-and-maccabi-tel-aviv-ready-for-the-new-euroleague-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/making-the-playoffs-is-difficult-lets-get-through-8-10-rounds-and-then-well-talk-katash-and-maccabi-tel-aviv-ready-for-the-new-euroleague-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the playoffs is difficult, let\u2019s get through 8\u201310 rounds and then we\u2019ll talk: Katash and Maccabi Tel Aviv ready for the new Euroleague season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just ahead of their matchup against EFES, Head Coach Oded Katash along with Roman Sorkin spoke about the challenges that lies ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyond the excitement of the competition starting, we would have preferred a bit more time to prepare,\u201d Katash began. \u201cWe&#8217;re counting on the fact that there are other teams as well who didn\u2019t have an ideal preseason and are also facing difficulties. We don\u2019t feel 100% ready yet; it still feels like we\u2019re in preseason mode. But now the real games begin and we\u2019re playing, especially in the first and second games, against good teams. Anadolu is a very talented team with a lot of guards. We had to make choices about which players to highlight at this level, and I think that until we play the basketball we want to play, what can help us is body language, good energy, and the extra effort we\u2019re willing to bring.\u201d<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_156357\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156357\" src=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8455.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8455.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8455-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8455-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8455-610x407.jpeg 610w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8455-1080x720.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-156357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oded Katash &#8211; Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThe two teams that Maccabi will face this week are a bit different in style the bench boss explained, \u201cThey\u2019re both slightly different teams doing things a bit differently, but they\u2019re definitely impressive. I can\u2019t really talk about both games together, but starting with Anadolu, as I said, they\u2019re a very talented team with lots of guards, playmakers, and shooting. They have a coach who does things differently and is very creative. It\u2019s pretty clear we\u2019ll need to stop them collectively and it\u2019s not just about one player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EFES added a number of new players but due to the Eurobasket, their preparation wasn\u2019t as well as they would have wanted it to be, &#8220;I want to believe that. It could help us, but I think it\u2019s much easier to integrate players like Weiler-Babb and Jordan Loyd who know the EuroLeague and the style of basketball, it&#8217;s easier than bringing in players who have to adapt to a totally different game.\u201d<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_156335\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156335\" src=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_7556.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_7556.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_7556-300x240.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_7556-768x614.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_7556-610x488.jpeg 610w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_7556-1080x864.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-156335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roman Sorkin &#8211; Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nRoman Sorkin added his thoughts about playing a familiar face at EFES, \u201cFirst of all, Jordan Loyd played here, so it&#8217;s fun to play against him on a personal level as a friend. They\u2019re a new team, a different setup, he\u2019s in another team in a different role. He&#8217;s a great player, it&#8217;s always tough to play against him, but we&#8217;ll come prepared and try to stop him as much as we can.\u201d<br \/>\nThis year, the Euroleague added 2 more teams and increased the amount of games which means there will be more Double Weeks ahead, \u201cIt&#8217;s different, but they added more games, so it&#8217;s better to have it like this at the beginning. The workload has already increased, so better to get it out of the way now if possible,\u201d Sorkin said.<\/p>\n<p>As for the team beginning a new campaign, Sorkin is excited as well as are his teammates, \u201cIt&#8217;s the beginning of the season and it&#8217;s new for everyone. We&#8217;re mainly focusing on ourselves whether we play well or not so well, we have to remember that there are players here playing their first year in Europe, so we need to give it time. None of our teams in previous years looked their best at the start.\u201d<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_156143\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156143\" src=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_7407.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_7407.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_7407-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_7407-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_7407-610x407.jpeg 610w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_7407-1080x720.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-156143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roman Sorkin &#8211; Photo credit: Dov Halickman and Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nOf course a good start to the season will make a statement and as has been in the past, Maccabi and Katash would always aim to make the postseason, but can this be a goal for this coming year?<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s very ambitious to say that outright. Making the playoffs is difficult regardless, especially now that the EuroLeague has expanded, and certainly in our current situation. But we do want to be there. I think it\u2019s not a conversation for the start of the season, let\u2019s get through 8\u201310 rounds and then we\u2019ll talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maccabi lost a pair of games to Hapoel Jerusalem this past week, but had played well against some of the European opponents they had tipped off against during the preseason preparation. Katash will have a full squad for the Double Week and hopes that he will be able to take advantage of that, but he doesn\u2019t look at preseason results as the be all and end all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, it\u2019s crazy and there are more double weeks ahead. It was already a heavy load, but it is what it is, and we\u2019ll deal with it. You can\u2019t take much from the previous games  we didn\u2019t play against Partizan. They were missing a lot of players, especially big men and had many youth players, you can\u2019t draw much from that. This is going to be a game at a completely different level, with different intensity and different capabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just ahead of their matchup against EFES, Head Coach Oded Katash along with Roman Sorkin spoke about the challenges that lies ahead. \u201cBeyond the excitement of the competition starting, we would have preferred a bit more time to prepare,\u201d Katash began. \u201cWe&#8217;re counting on the fact that there are other teams as well who didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":157179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4,187],"class_list":["post-157177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holy-land-hoops","tag-maccabi-tel-aviv","tag-oded-katash","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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