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Boy, Maccabi Tel Aviv looked a helluva lot better than anybody expected they would look after having battled COVID-19 over the past few weeks plus not having the services of arguably three of the best players in Scottie Wilbekin, Derrick Williams and Jalen Reynolds. <\/p>\n

It took about a quarter hour of action but when the Yellow & Blue decided to turn up the heat, play aggressive ball, dive allover the floor and ratchet up the energy, well they were just unstoppable. <\/p>\n

One of the keys to their 87-68 Winner Cup quarterfinal victory over Maccabi Rishon Le\u2019Zion was undoubtedly Iftach Ziv who looked as if he fit right into the brand new spanking new Puma uniforms.
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Iftach Ziv – Photo Credit: Basket.co.il<\/p><\/div>
\nThe former Gilboa Galil point guard had harassed and harangued Ioannis Sfairopoulos\u2019s squad for the past two seasons and now he had his services on his side of the ball. Ziv slices and diced the Rishon defense, understood and read plays with ease and it had the feel as if he would be a Maccabi point guard for the next decade. He fit like a glove. <\/p>\n

Ziv played on the ball, Ziv played off the ball, Ziv played with both another new recruit in Keenan Evans as well as captain John Dibartolomeo without missing a beat. How will he mesh with Wilbekin? That remains to be seen, but Ziv couldn\u2019t have had a better debut. <\/p>\n

11 points and 6 assists were a nice first game while his aggressiveness on the ball and off of it was even more tantalizing for Sfairopoulos who had followed his progress with much interest over the past four years with both Nahariya and Gilboa Galil.
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos – Photo Credit: Dov Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cI liked him a lot when I saw him in the first year I came here, I liked him a lot. I followed him and this is the right moment for him to come to Maccabi as he is now ready. I liked him when I saw him in my 2nd and 3rd season when he played a very important role with his team.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing not to like about Ziv as he\u2019s worked hard from day one to get to where he is today. He plays with absolutely no fear, he plays hard nosed hoops the entire time he\u2019s on the court and he most important of all he plays like a team player. <\/p>\n

Now that he plays with Maccabi, some of the veterans are quite relieved that they don\u2019t have to go toe to too with him as opponents but only in practice.
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Iftach Ziv & John Dibartolomeo – Photo Credit: Basket.co.il<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cI met Iftach my first year at Maccabi Haifa and I followed him throughout his career,\u201d Dibartolomeo noted. \u201cI love the energy he brings and he provided a big boost for us and went for loose balls. I\u2019m happy he\u2019s on our side.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI expect him to play very good and I am very happy with his signing. I am very happy with Roman (Sorkin) and I really like him a lot. They will be very important in the the Israeli league but also in the Euroleague.I now have more solutions and we will play with two ball handlers which is how I want to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ziv was the catalyst for Maccabi\u2019s aggressiveness which was their calling card in the win over Rishon and caught them by surprise. Perhaps Guy Goodes\u2019s team thought that Maccabi would be coming into the game looking at it as just a chance to get some practice minutes in and that would be that. They were wrong.
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Iftach Ziv – Photo Credit: Maccabi Tel Aviv<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cInto the first five minutes of the second quarter we were playing well but then things started to come apart and we had to stop their run,\u201d a shellshocked Noam Dovrat said following the game. \u201cAs they minutes went by they got even more aggressive and we couldn\u2019t stop them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maccabi caused Rishon to turnover the ball 25 times which is a tremendous amount to give up with 16 coming on steals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey pressured the ball and we weren\u2019t prepared for that level of aggressiveness, but we will have to work on that. I don\u2019t believe the game was a reflection of our abilities as a club,\u201d Dovrat stated.
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Guy Goodes – Photo Credit: Dov Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nRishon\u2019s bench boss Goodes also spoke about what went wrong, \u201cWe weren\u2019t used to the physicality and aggressiveness that took us out of our normal way to play and then we started to go backwards. We played slower, turned over the ball and we paid the price for each of those. I am happy that these things happened now and not in the regular season so that we can work on them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that when we put pressure on the ball our defense will look tough and this is what we want to do. I don\u2019t know if we will always have these statistics but we want to always play effectively,\u201d Sfairopoulos explained. \u201cWe need to be ready to fight for every ball and fight for every possession. This is how we will build our game defensively and offensively.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Maccabi played well for their first real competitive game, their long distance shooting isn\u2019t anywheres near where it needs to be (4\/24). The players all know that and they\u2019ll need to go head first for those balls on the floor and do what is needed to grind out the wins early on as they get back into shooting shape.
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Iftach Ziv – Photo Credit: Basket.co.il<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cI\u2019m not surprised because we practiced well. The players were very worried about what happened over the last few weeks due to the coronavirus, so I\u2019m sure we find our rhythm and we will have better shooting games,\u201d Sfairopoulos said. <\/p>\n

All in all, the coach can put a big checkmark on test #1 as the Euroleague opens in a week time when Bayern Munich arrives at Yad Eliyahu. <\/p>\n

The next test will be a bigger one and that\u2019s an Israeli Classico on Friday afternoon when Maccabi faces Hapoel Jerusalem. Will Maccabi be able to maintain the level of aggressiveness that they want to? Will the Reds allow them to run wild on them as they did against Rishon?
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Thon Maker – Photo Credit: Dov Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nJerusalem has more talent than Rishon, that\u2019s for sure and former NBA players Thon Maker, Anthony Bennett and Sean Kilpatrick will want to show that they can hoop with the best of them on the grand Israeli stage. However, Maccabi will want to show that, well they are Maccabi and that no one is going to wrest away their Winner Cup trophy. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have another important game in two days,\u201d Sfairopoulos said. \u201cBoth teams aren\u2019t ready but it will be an interesting game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interesting it will certainly be as the word interesting always seems to be an understatement when these two clubs get together. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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