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3-Pointers<\/strong>
\n1) Scottie Wilbekin is a winner plain and simple<\/strong>. There\u2019s no question as to why David Blatt loved coaching the guard when they collaborated together at Darussafaka and it\u2019s exactly why Coach Ioannis Sfairopoulos loves to have a player like Wilbekin on his team. But what we\u2019ve seen in Wilbekin since Sfairopoulos came on board is the maturation of the player and of the person into a true leader on the court. He\u2019s becoming that leader right before our very eyes but he\u2019s also become a smarter player, a more humble player and with each game that goes by an even more experienced player. \u201cHe is more mature more ready to take responsibility and a leadership role,\u201d explained Sfairopoulos<\/strong> about the difference that he sees in Wilbekin from last season to this. \u201cHe shows he has big personality to be the leader and to grow as a player even more and he deserves the credit.\u201d The coach continued, \u201cEven if he has a few bad moments during the game he will raise his game up and he\u2019s our leader. I knew the quality that he had when I came to Maccabi. He\u2019s a player that can score and also can find the best option, just like he did in Valencia when he found Tyler Dorsey, that makes him a big player when he also knows how to pass when he needs to.\u201d
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\n2) Humble is also a word that we can use to describe Wilbekin<\/strong> and that\u2019s how he reacted to the question of hitting the winning shot as he looked at the things that both he and Maccabi could have done better, \u201cI had too many turnovers. I have to be better and the team has to be better. There were stretches we played good but not great. We have 8 games now to figure it out and get to be playing our best basketball.\u201d He also tried to push off the notion that he nailed the game winner (which he most certainly did), \u201cIt was not a game winner there were 10 seconds, and the team made a big stop at the end.\u201d That\u2019s all true but without his guile and without his brilliant shooting where he takes the shot without stuttering for a second, Maccabi would have never won the game. 17 points in the second half with 9 points down the stretch and in money time tells you what you need to know about Wilbekin; he\u2019s a winner.
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\n3) It\u2019s true that Maccabi didn\u2019t play anything close to their best game,<\/strong> but they knew how to pull the rabbit out of the hat when it counted most to find a way to pull off the one point win. In fact, they were down 66-60 with 2:08 left in the contest. Somehow they were able to pull off the win and score 11 points in just over two minutes. Who would have ever thunk that after Olympiacos had put down the hammer figuratively and literally. How did it happen? Simple. Maccabi has been able to win these types of games all year which shows what kind of character and how special a team this is that is evolving at Yad Eliyahu. \u201cDefinitely,\u201d said Jake Cohen<\/strong>. \u201cAnother one of those days that we did not play our best, it\u2019s really important. We just play with a lot of confidence. We play with that attribute.\u201d Tyler Dorsey<\/strong> also chimes in, \u201cWe showed our character like last week on the road. We just figure out how to win close games.\u201d Last but nothing least, Sfairopoulos<\/strong> spoke about how the team never, ever gives up even on an off night, \u201cI want to congratulate our players for one more win. With the way that this win came, it was more important. I think it was important that we didn’t give up. We fought until the end. We believed that we could win. And this is the reason that we won. I congratulate the players because they fought until the end.”
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\nOvertime<\/strong>
\nGotta give a ton of credit to Olympiacos and their head coach Georgios Bartzokas who did a masterful job of stymying Maccabi Tel Aviv throughout the 40 minutes. There were stretches in both the first half and second half that Olympiacos just outplayed, outfought and outthought Maccabi. Bartzokas deserves a ton of credit in being able to come into Yad Eliyahu with a rag tag team of players that included a couple in Shaquielle McKissic and Dwight Buycks plus others that had come back from injury and illness in Taylor Rochestie and Augustine Rubit. What Bartzokas did tonight was close to brilliant, but his team still came out on the wrong side of the ledger. Jake Cohen<\/strong> explained what he thought the visitors were able to do, \u201cThey played good in the second half and took us out of our zone.\u201d Wilbekin<\/strong> also gave his opinion as to what Olympiacos was able to do, \u201cThey did a good job guarding the pick and rolls it was not what I was used to.\u201d <\/p>\n

Bartzokas<\/strong> himself spoke about the keys to the game and why his squad just fell short, \u201cOf course, it was a very tense game. Very tight. Some decisions at the end of the game decided this one. So, unfortunately, all the decisions that we took, and of course that Maccabi took, at the end went against us. For 30 minutes, we had a solid defensive performance. And I believe that with the way we played on defense, we should have won this game. At the end of the game, in the last two or three minutes, we did whatever we could \u2013 I say that like a joke \u2013 to lose this game. Turnovers, missing free throws, fouls and giving free throws to Wilbekin. Everything, even the last turnover on our last offense. So, whenever you have the chance to win a game here in Tel Aviv, you need to take this opportunity. We are a young team, we are learning. We have problems with injured and sick players, others are out of shape. But with our defensive performance for the first 30 minutes, we should have won the game. Congratulations to Maccabi.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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