Maccabi in Euroleague-NBA games 8-11 Oct.

[Arik]

What about our chances?

[Dookie]

OMG!

The names are :

Philadelphia and Phoenix, not Filadelfia and Fenix

[Kings]

1978 Exhibition game, Yad Eliyahu Arena, Tel Aviv, Israel
9/8/78 Maccabi Tel Aviv 98 – Washington Bullets 97

1984 Exhibition tournament, Yad Eliyahu Arena, Tel Aviv, Israel
8/28/84 Maccabi Tel Aviv 104 – New Jersey Nets 97
8/29/84 Maccabi Tel Aviv 113 – Phoenix Suns 98

1988 Exhibition game, The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Philadelphia 76ers 108 – Maccabi Tel Aviv 107

1989 Exhibition game, Miama Arena, Miami, Florida, USA
Miami Heat 101 – Maccabi Tel Aviv 95

1990 Exhibition game, Los Angeles, California, USA
Los Angeles Lakers 129 – Maccabi Tel Aviv 106

1991 Exhibition game, Los Angeles, California, USA
Los Angeles Clippers 98 – Maccabi Tel Aviv 93

1999 Exhibition game, Yad Eliyahu Arena, Tel Aviv, Israel
10/11/99 Miami Heat 126 – Maccabi Tel Aviv 91

2005 Exhibition game, Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Canada
10/16/05 Toronto Raptors 103 – Maccabi Tel Aviv 105

2005 Exhibition game, Orlando, Florida, United States
10/19/05 Orlando Magic 93 – Maccabi Tel Aviv 79

[Arik]

OMG!

The names are :

Philadelphia and Phoenix, not Filadelfia and Fenix

Yeah, of course you're right. I don't know why I wrote it in Spanish

[Arik]

Kings, i thank you for the info about MTA-NBA games! I know that our team has defeated Bullets when it was NBA Champs in 1978, but I didn't read before about Exhibition tournament at Yad Eliyahu Arena, Tel Aviv in 1984 when we defeated our American friends from Phoenix and New Jersey..
Anyway, in recent history (from 90-s till today) Maccabi had success against NBA team only in one game. Of course, it was last year thriller vs. Raptors in Toronto with Parker's fantastic winning shot.

[Kings]

Toronto Raptors 103–105 Maccabi Tel Aviv Highlights

Maccabi: Parker 24 (7 reb), Vujcic 21 (10 reb), Solomon 15, Green 11, Burstein 8 (5 reb, 5 ast), Arnold 5, Penny 4, Sasson 3, Sharp 2.
Toronto: Bosh 27 (12 reb), Rose 18, James 16, Bonner 14, Peterson 11, Villanueva 10, Woods 4, Calderon 2, Araujo1.

[ziv]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G86FIbmjF7Q

[FanBoy]

I'm very much amazed for the good with maccabi...I was sure one of the biggest clubs in europen history will have a weak team, and more of an economic balance season.

But, they play very good toghter, and seem to have good players.

I dont know how ever if they are better than the europen champions...Cska are very strong much more than maccabi in diffance...but maccabi has a better offance...so it seems like a good match...they can win or loose.
50%-50% i'd say.

As for one against an NBA team yeah that can be done...dont think they can beat SA but still....one team they will win against.

[SHARP]

Maccabi lost to Spurs 84-97

[MikeMaccabiFan]

Maccabi lost to Spurs 84-97

Spurs are too big for Maccabi, and game also was by mostly NBA rules (effectively disabling Maccabis 3pt trows) and with new NBA ball (Shak didn't like ).
Anyway, when Duncan and Tony Parker were out it was pretty equal game. And Nic finally started to play well, Halpering showed first signs of being PG, Eliyahu wasn't bad and Jasaitis was good today.
Buford and Bynum were not so good today, may be trying to prove something...
But still, it's not good measure for Maccabi abilitity - we'll see in Israeli league and Euroleague.
And they do need PF ASAP!!!

[ziv]

though maccabi was 20 points down most of the game.
a tough game for maccabi, might be the only "away game" for a european team in this tournment. of course it wasn't totaly a home game for the spurs and we'll see some games with no home court advantage at all (in cologne) but it was close to home court for them.
anyway - this game wasn't what maccabi had in mind 6-7-8 monthes ago. no baston and no parker and even no burstein, when these 4 games were schdueled maccabi didn't think it will have a whole new squad with a new coach.
ok - i'm done with excuses and since it's an exhbition game for a new team i'll try to stay optimistic and focus on the upside.
i liked elyahu - he can surprise some EL teams and he gives spahija a good weapon coming off the bench (he started the game though).
arnold was good - still with the NT mentality, few nice moves on horry, he too will have an importent role this season.
bynum - had problems guarding parker (who doesn't?) but it was true the other way around. great dribller, very quick, jumps real high, had some hard time to score his lay-ups against a tall and strong nba front court.
jasitis was good during the first Q when maccabi struggled, his automatic shooting will be an importent asset and i think sasson will find his minutes cut because of simas.
halperin - i didn't like his game, still too afraid, doesn't atack the rim, always look for the east-west dribble after a pick and roll and doesn't look for a drive or for the rolling player. should be looking more for the rim, not only for his own sake but mostly for making the defender work.
vujcic - nice game, had a hard time under the rim but scored well from outside.
buford - well i kept him for last, a bad game i have some comments but think its an exhbition match i'll pass it this time.

[SHARP]

Maccabi didn't play bad 2-3-4Q,but 1st was terrible.Eliyahu and Vujcic was good.Duncan and Parker did everything for Spurs.
So we will see how Maccabi will play in tournament in Cologne.

[MikeMaccabiFan]

Ziv,

About excuses - you forgot that Maccabi played without Derek, who could be good guarding Parker. However I think Tal would be the best - he steamrolled him once when thay both played for junior national teams. Tal is tall enough to give him distance and be able to block him and fast enough to keep up with him. He is injured though... So Maccabi was playing with 2 PG's only - not enough agains any NBA team.

And you are right that it was effectively home game for Spurs.

Another thing - I am not big fan of Halperin, but he did show some good moves closer to the end of the game... I trying to be optimistic...

I also was (again and again) furious about israeli commentators - they did not want to say or hear (when Arik Kenig (which was in Paris, and may be is one of the best NBA expersts in Israel) tried to say that Spurs aren't the measure and that Maccabi was wonderful against Bologna) anything good about Maccabi...

[TRI]

something is strange for me :
if your talking about Maccabi in Euroleague-NBA games in EUROPE then it's 3 games.
if your talking about Maccabi in EL-NBA games then there is total of 5:

October 8 in Paris Bercy vs San Antonio Spurs

Cologne, Germany:October 10th vs CSKA Moscow
October 11 vs Phoenix Suns /Philadelphia 76

October 17,Cleveland Cleveland Cavaliers

October 19,Toronto vs Toronto Raptors

but really it is not a serious thing to even talk about it since Maccabi is in a mass right now! even jerusalem can win over her!at this moment!
Maccabi is not playing at home.
she is playing with just 3 "starters" 2 of them totally new to the team and one is unfamiliar with europian basketball(or even with maccabi ,for that matter...)...
and half the banch is new,also ....
burstien and sharp are missing and also one very important part in the pazzle: the replacement for baston in "the starting 5"!!
so maccabi is lacking key tools in offence and deffence and i can go on and on....
the bottom line is there is no point to exept something good to come from this games!
i think maccabi sould cancel them if she can!no good can come from those games sorry,but it's unwise playing those game in the state that maccabi is in, right now! to say the least...

[Czarkazem13]

I also was (again and again) furious about israeli commentators - they did not want to say or hear (when Arik Kenig (which was in Paris, and may be is one of the best NBA expersts in Israel) tried to say that Spurs aren't the measure and that Maccabi was wonderful against Bologna) anything good about Maccabi...

That's ok, the U.S. commentators weren't any better. They stated that Maccabi Tel-Aviv lost in Euro semi-final (it was the final), that Lior Eliyahu was the first Israeli drafted (Doron Sheffer; reminds me in the draft of Eliyahu when they talked about him being the first Jewish player drafted since Danny Shayes, no mentining of Jordan Farmar - from the first round of THAT draft) and kept bragging about Maccabi's dominance in Israel (which doesn't mean shit), hardly mentioning Maccabi's success in the EL.