I would like to express my sincere feelings and thoughts about the Israeli national basketball team in this current Eurobasket tournament.
Disgrace,frustration,humiliation,rage,indignation and embarrassment, this is how I describe what I feel as I watch the Israeli national basketball team collapse against national teams which are not as good as our national team, an entire nation watching these games on the television and can't digest and figure what went wrong, what happened, there must be something putrid within the team itself. On the paper,this team is very talented, but in reality everything is the opposite.
It doesn't make sense that Israel will lose a game against a team of amateurs, I'm not trying to the degrade the players of GB in any sort of way but come on this team plays with no NBA players and their top players are not even playing in their best league, I have no other way to depict it rather than saying I feel embarrassed.
How come that an entire national basketball team struggle to score from the line, how come that this team plays individual basketball with no screens,and no team plays,how come that even when someone steals the ball there is no fast break and again the players are wasting the clock and struggle to find an easy shot, how come that an NBA player is not a factor in the games and sometimes it just feels like he disappears, how come that the captain of this team is not confident enough to take shots even though he scores his shots when he decides he's brave enough to take them.
It's unbelievable, Pini Gershon said something smart and I definitely agree with him, he said he would rather having a true leader which doesn't play in the NBA like Šarūnas Jasikevičius who isn't afraid to take shots, a sort of player which is simply ice-cold in the crucial minutes, someone you can trust on to take the last shot and also score it.
He said he interviewed to few of the local medias in Slovenia and they said that this Israeli national basketball team is the worst team in about 41 years. I definitely agree,initially the French national team feared playing us,they didn't fear playing Germany, so how come nobody fears playing Israel anymore, where are the glory days when the entire Europe continent feared facing Israel. It's not like this anymore.
when your coach is apathetic, the whole bench becomes apathetic and eventually the starting five becomes apathetic as well, you can't sense the electricity and the enthusiasm in the game, and that's the worst thing that a team can suffer.
I wonder if we can restore the glory days of the Israeli national team, the same national team which is now participating for 27th time in the Eurobasket, forth in the amount of participation in the Eurobasket, I think that in order to do this, something new and virginal should take place in the Israeli basketball in general.
Disgrace,frustration,humiliation,rage,indignation and embarrassment, this is how I describe what I feel as I watch the Israeli national basketball team collapse against national teams which are not as good as our national team, an entire nation watching these games on the television and can't digest and figure what went wrong, what happened, there must be something putrid within the team itself. On the paper,this team is very talented, but in reality everything is the opposite.
It doesn't make sense that Israel will lose a game against a team of amateurs, I'm not trying to the degrade the players of GB in any sort of way but come on this team plays with no NBA players and their top players are not even playing in their best league, I have no other way to depict it rather than saying I feel embarrassed.
How come that an entire national basketball team struggle to score from the line, how come that this team plays individual basketball with no screens,and no team plays,how come that even when someone steals the ball there is no fast break and again the players are wasting the clock and struggle to find an easy shot, how come that an NBA player is not a factor in the games and sometimes it just feels like he disappears, how come that the captain of this team is not confident enough to take shots even though he scores his shots when he decides he's brave enough to take them.
It's unbelievable, Pini Gershon said something smart and I definitely agree with him, he said he would rather having a true leader which doesn't play in the NBA like Šarūnas Jasikevičius who isn't afraid to take shots, a sort of player which is simply ice-cold in the crucial minutes, someone you can trust on to take the last shot and also score it.
He said he interviewed to few of the local medias in Slovenia and they said that this Israeli national basketball team is the worst team in about 41 years. I definitely agree,initially the French national team feared playing us,they didn't fear playing Germany, so how come nobody fears playing Israel anymore, where are the glory days when the entire Europe continent feared facing Israel. It's not like this anymore.
when your coach is apathetic, the whole bench becomes apathetic and eventually the starting five becomes apathetic as well, you can't sense the electricity and the enthusiasm in the game, and that's the worst thing that a team can suffer.
I wonder if we can restore the glory days of the Israeli national team, the same national team which is now participating for 27th time in the Eurobasket, forth in the amount of participation in the Eurobasket, I think that in order to do this, something new and virginal should take place in the Israeli basketball in general.
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