Israel in youth competitions in Europe

[Dreamcatcher]

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

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 .

Yeah, to fall to Division B is easier than to get out of there.

By the way, aren't your youngsters called to army?

[Billy Bounce]

Yeah, to fall to Division B is easier than to get out of there.

By the way, aren't your youngsters called to army?

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.

[Billy Bounce]

Israel 57 - 62 Bulgaria

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

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

The chances to make semis are quite slim now Bulgarians are out of the reach, Israel must win Finland ( today @13:00) & pray that Swedes will lose to Bulgarians (@18:00)

[frodoborg]

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

[Billy Bounce]

You are mistaken, there are no chances left. Oh, well, strike 1...

Good I haven't read your comment before the game : it would ruin all the tension

Israel 78-62 Finland

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

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

[Billy Bounce]

Israel 71-57 England

At last we look like a proud nation of guards should look like : 24 assists, 18 steals

The best performing roster consisted of 4 guards (Timor, Arieli, Lavie ,Labanowsky) + 1 undersized center ( Solomon )

[Billy Bounce]

To those it may concern ,

U20 crushed both rivals in fight for 5th place. Too bad we lost to Bulgary

U18 started really well with 4-0 so far winning +20 on average, next round : Estonia and pretty strong Montenegro team

[Billy Bounce]

Israel U18 lost to Montenegro ( Serbia2 ) 70-77 , bad luck is mostly to blame due to horrendous FT/3PTS percentages . Anyway both teams looked pretty solid & I won't be surprised they will meet in the final .


31.07.2010 Semis ( a win means DivA next summer )
Israel - Finland
Montenegro - Czech

[Billy Bounce]

2 missed FTs away from getting back to DivisionA. Damn it,

It was too much pressure for u18 kids, I guess.

[Billy Bounce]

For those it may concern:

Israel U16 NT ( the only Israeli youth team that avoided re-delegation last summer ) struggles against DivisionB this season too.

Tomorrow ( 16.08.2010 ) @ 16:30 CET is do-or-die match against Latvia.

Wish good luck to ze boyz

[Billy Bounce]

Damn, all Israeli youth NTs are now in DivisionB

Head of basketball federation Shay Sheni claims to take personal measures. I'd advice him to look at the mirror, for a change: it's pretty stupid to appoint all youth coaches from those who had a disastrous season in BSL : Gino, Franco, Belinko . If he want to improve their renome, better to improve it in Leumit , not to risk youth teams ( future of Israel basketball)

I'd like to hear from why Katash & Shamir are wasted as assistant coaches with adult NT ... if you don't trust Shivek as a head coach, don't appoint him .

I'm so tired of this freaking "politics" in Isareli basketball federation

[pohani komarac]

Israel U-16 selection few days ago played against Zagreb city selection

ZAGREB - IZRAEL 82:51 (22:9;16:12;27:16;17:14 )
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ZAGREB: Šarić 8, Novković 3, Bešlić 13, Anzulović 2, Milatić 8, Skokna 1, Lučić 3, Tomić 7, Rebić 9, Zebić 2, Mazalin 21, Vranković 5, treneri: Lozanić I. i Kukić N.
IZRAEL : Zov-Av 2, Shimoni, Kirshenbum 7, Halizer, Haimovitz 5, Ben Shitrit 8, Ben Ishay, Yuval 1, Shloim 4, Sorkin, Paz 10, Tisona 6, Ben David 8, treneri: Gino Y. i Eytan E.