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Israel in youth competitions in Europe

frodoborg

frodoborg

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Today U20 Israeli National team opens European championship in Division B. The target is clear - to return to Division A. In the preliminary round Israel is scheduled to play against Hungary, Georgia, and Sweden. Top players on our squad:
Jacob Cohen - 210, F/C, from Davidson, who had a wonderful season in NCAA, scoring 13.3 ppg, and grabbing 5.1 rpg. He was great this summer, one of the best scorers, and rebounders.
Carmel Bouchman (F, 206) and Nimrod Tishman (PG, 197) both return from very unsuccessful year in colleges. But despite the failure in USA, we are still talking about 2 of the top players from their generation. Both played in Maccabi TA youth team. Both are expected to join the A league teams in Israel next season.
Daniel Tamir (C, 208) - the younger brother of Amit Tamir.
Ben Reis (F, 202) - played some major minutes in Bnei HaSharon last season.
Tal Karpelesz (SF, 1.95).
 
Israel 67-71 Sweden

The key-moment : 3-rd quarter , Israeli guards lose a ball in every freaking possession , Swedes on the other hand , made a nice series of 3pts out of Israeli TOs :5/5 to -15 :rolleyes:

Then our NT made a few signs of waking up , cutting the gap to -4 , just to allow Swedes 2 easy jump-shots: -8 with 1-2 min to go ...

Good points: the team isn't broken easily , solid game of Jacob Cohen -> 16 pts

Bad points: no team-play , awful ball-handling -> 8/17 A/TO :eek: , terrible defense, especially @ perimeter 11 ! 3pts conceded , no leader -> Tishman woke up only @ beginning of 4th quarter

Does anybody have any idea why Carmel Bouchman played only for 3 min ?
 
1q: Georgia 14:19 Israel ( 13 out of 19 belong to Jacob Cohen )
2q: Georgia 42:41 Israel ( 21 out of 41 by J. Cohen )

It took Gino only one game to realize that Cohen is the best offensive option available .

Yet again guards' perimeter defense sucks : Georgians shoot 3pts at free will with 6/14 ( 42.8 % ) jumping from 17% , they shoot in first game against Hungary :rolleyes:

So far, it looks like Moshiah had came to Israel U20 NT. Judging from the name, he is descended from King David and his name is Jacob :D
 
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Final: Israel 88-81 Georgia

J. Cohen : 34 pts 10/13 2pts 3/6 3pts 5/6 FT 5 Off.+ 4 Def. Rebounds 1 steal :eek:

Last 4 min : the score 75-74 to Geogia, Karpelesz with foul+1 and J.Cohen ( who else, if not him :D ) with a clutch three-pointer to make it 75-80. Then it was a comedy : Israeli guards with stupid TOs and immediate fouls , Georgians with a bunch of missed FTs & 3 pointers

To sum it up:a pyrrhic victory for Israel , we need a monster game of J.Cohen & some luck to beat the weakest team is the group. :rolleyes:

I don't see a way Israel U20 NT will return to Division A this year , luckily we aren't fighting against re-delegation to Division C :o
 
Israel 86-78 Hungary

Epic game , Hungarians found an antidote for Cohen : tall fella called Morgan who blocked anything moving under the rim , so despite bad 3pts shooting, Hungarians made it 45 - 58 with 16 min to go. Then Cohen desperately tried to save the motherland with couple of three-pointers - nope, but right here Yotam Shiran started to fight for every possible ball - missing lay-ups, grabbing his own rebounds and then missing the next lay-ups :D. Somehow he succeeded to start a chain reaction & a step by step Israel NT got back to 67 - 69 with 8 min to go. Brand clutch triple of J. Cohen & a consequent lay-up out of offensive rebound changed the tide.

Bright sides: J. Cohen in all aspects :eek: , Shiran deserves special mention for a fighting spirit, Tishman is back to old himself - dishing 6 assists with 0 TOs.

Dark sides: Carmel Bouchman isn't playing at all, Ben Reis so far disappoints big way : he was important player in Bney Ha-Sharon all season long, but somehow his NT performance is nothing to write about :(
 
Epic? :rolleyes: Good thing you don't exaggerate. :D
Having old Tishman was good thing, Cohen needs some help.
Now Israel will play against Bulgaria, Finland, and Portugal. Israel and Portugal has advanced with 1 victory, Sweden, and Bulgaria - with 2. In order to advance to 1-4, Israel has to beat Bulgaria. But first we can't fail today - vs. Portugal (13:30 CET).
 
Epic in sense of a tension, not in a sense of a sport achievement :D

Meantime the game started: 5-4 to Portugal , interesting what Portuguese will invent to stop 2.10 Cohen with 2.02-3 centers of Portugal NT.
 
Israel 64 - 57 Portugal

Once again J. Cohen with a tip-in to seal the outcome . This game will go into history books as a win without making a single three pointer 0/12 :eek:

Tomorrow is a critical game vs. Bulgaria : a win means to be in good position for a final four, a loss - another year in Division B .
 
Billy Bounce said:
Israel 64 - 57 Portugal

Once again J. Cohen with a tip-in to seal the outcome . This game will go into history books as a win without making a single three pointer 0/12 :eek:

Tomorrow is a critical game vs. Bulgaria : a win means to be in good position for a final four, a loss - another year in Division B .
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Yeah, to fall to Division B is easier than to get out of there.

By the way, aren't your youngsters called to army?
 
Dreamcatcher said:
Yeah, to fall to Division B is easier than to get out of there.

By the way, aren't your youngsters called to army?
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Usually youngsters that are good enough to be promoted into NT doing more or less symbolic army service : they spend several months within military, then a few calls for training , that's it.
 
Israel 57 - 62 Bulgaria

The head coach Gino is the one to blame for the loss :mad:

Israel had a lead +10 (55-45) with 4 min to go, but Gino made 2 critical mistakes

1) his best clutch player , who saved NT ass for 3 games in a row - J. Cohen wasn't on the floor
2) no time-out was called when Bulgarians showed signs of come-back


Short description of last minutes play:

4:04 stupid foul on 3pts jump shooter by Tishman -> 3 FT (55-48)
3:52 Ariely TO (bad pass) -> Binev 3pts made ( 55-51)
3:28 Ariely TO (Travelling) -> Binev 3pts made ( 55-54)
2.56 J. Cohen in
2:08 24 sec TO -> Zhelev 3pts made (55-57)
1:47 Gino takes a time-out :rolleyes:

The chances to make semis are quite slim now :o Bulgarians are out of the reach, Israel must win Finland ( today @13:00) & pray that Swedes will lose to Bulgarians (@18:00)
 
You are mistaken, there are no chances left. Oh, well, strike 1... :(

Tomorrow Division B starts in Tel-Aviv. Israel is in the group with England, Romania, Denmark, Belarus. Top players on the squad:
Sean Labanowski PF 2.03
Ram Elias-Pour C 2.08
Axel Van Ouwerkerk C 2.09
Oz Blayzer PF 1.99
Noam Laish GF 1.95
Bar Timor SG 1.90
 
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frodoborg said:
You are mistaken, there are no chances left. Oh, well, strike 1... :(
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Good I haven't read your comment before the game : it would ruin all the tension :p

Israel 78-62 Finland

Israel (10/ 16 3pts , 62.5 % ) Where were all those triples when really needed ? :rolleyes:

Ok, we missed DivisionA, but it looks like we've got great prospect for Israel NT center : J. Cohen . 2 more players that could qualify into NT next season (in my view) are Tishman & Shiran
 
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