{"id":188416,"date":"2026-08-16T01:28:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=188416"},"modified":"2026-08-17T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:30:02","slug":"brissetts-euroleague-goal-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/brissetts-euroleague-goal-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Brissett&#8217;s Euroleague goal: To win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Tel Aviv welcomed Oshae Brissett back to Israel as the forward landed back in the Holy Land to begin preparations for the 2026-27 season. After the 28-year old Canadian collected his luggage he spoke about the summer that was, expectations and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s great, man. Great to be back. I&#8217;m glad to be back. It felt like a short summer, but, you know, I&#8217;m here and I&#8217;m ready to go. I feel more comfortable coming into my second season and I think that&#8217;s the main point. When I started to get more into it, it was just more comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"iw\" dir=\"rtl\">\u05d0\u05d5\u05e9\u05d9\u05d9 \u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05e1\u05d8 \u05e0\u05d7\u05ea \u05d1\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hPfXnGkwV9\">pic.twitter.com\/hPfXnGkwV9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sports Rabbi (@thesportsrabbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thesportsrabbi\/status\/2089028293416624249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nBrissett spoke about the team that has been assembled with some holdovers from last season as well as some newcomers, \u201cI feel we&#8217;ve got a great team. It&#8217;s just going to take, you know, a couple of games to get together and learn each other. But all the guys that we have, I know they&#8217;re ready to win and they want to win. So it&#8217;s exciting. I feel like we&#8217;re going to be really good. Really, really good. A lot of the guys I&#8217;ve played against or played with. So having them on the team is going to be great. I just know everyone&#8217;s excited. They&#8217;re excited to do better things than what we did last year.\u201d<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_188296\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-188296\" src=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_0163-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-188296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_0163-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_0163-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_0163-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_0163-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_0163-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_0163-610x407.jpeg 610w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_0163-1080x720.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-188296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oshae Brissett &#8211; Photo credit: Moshe Halickman<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nBonzie Colson is a new addition but he\u2019s also a player that has been with Maccabi in the past and Brissett knows that this will be a wonderful asset to the club, \u201cI feel like when I got here a lot of people talked about him. So I&#8217;m excited to see how we work together. And I&#8217;m glad that he&#8217;s on our team. I know everyone loves him here. I know he loves being here and that&#8217;s all that matters. If you&#8217;re a player and you love playing for this team, it&#8217;ll show and I think everyone&#8217;s excited for that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As for goals for the Euroleague this season, Brissett has a lofty one, \u201cTo win. That&#8217;s it. To win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Tel Aviv welcomed Oshae Brissett back to Israel as the forward landed back in the Holy Land to begin preparations for the 2026-27 season. After the 28-year old Canadian collected his luggage he spoke about the summer that was, expectations and more. \u201cIt&#8217;s great, man. Great to be back. I&#8217;m glad to be back. 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