The Israel National Basketball team traveled to Poland today, Monday, for the final two games of the 2022 European Championship qualification round. The Blue & White have already punched their ticket to the continental competition and hold a 4-0 record thus far in Group A action and will tip off against Romania on Friday and Spain on Sunday as they look to secure first place. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have an intense and fun week ahead,\u201d said head coach Oded Katash who joined the team after moving to Athens to lead Greek powerhouse Panathinaikos. \u201cI missed being with the guys and I am proud that we have already advanced to the Eurobasket, but we want to finish this campaign on a high note.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis may be my last window with the team but that\u2019s fine. I am proud as to how these four years went I am sure that the process will continue. Everyone who is with the team deserved to be here and we are here to win games. If I can allow a couple of younger players to get minutes I will.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iftach Ziv spork about have already qualified to the big tourney in 2022, \u201cI don\u2019t want to say it was easy but we did advance faster than we had thought we would. We did our job but we still want to win these games as everyone is in top game shape.\u201d<\/p>\n
Up and coming guard Noam Dovrat also looked ahead to the final window of games, \u201cWe are coming into these games with everything that we\u2019ve got. We may play against some of the guys in league action but when we are with the National Team we are here as teammates. This is my second time with the senior team and I\u2019m very excited about the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Israel National Basketball team traveled to Poland today, Monday, for the final two games of the 2022 European Championship qualification round. The Blue & White have already punched their ticket to the continental competition and hold a 4-0 record thus far in Group A action and will tip off against Romania on Friday and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":29660,"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":[9,848],"tags":[855,131,39,186,187],"class_list":["post-29658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holy-land-hoops","category-israel-national-team-football-israel-2-holy-land-hoops","tag-eurobasket","tag-iftach-ziv","tag-israel-basketball","tag-noam-dovrat","tag-oded-katash","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n