Mar 18, 2009, 2:38 am
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2009, 8:02 pm by TalkBasket.)
Quote:so, we are right kobi. i read u are hapole fan so u guess u use to view israeli league matches. are there players who maccabi's could be interested in as shooters and who are really good player for a so ambitious team? about arroyo yers i know he have another year contract,but if u see that somebody really have a so terrific impact on your wa of play, u have to sacrifice something. i mean than even adgag , being more rational as organizer, is better than arroyo for us. so u have to cut him anyway. in my opinion , arroyo this year was the worst starting five player since i see maccabi!limonad...u don't need to create the bench , now u need to start thinking to the starting five. and actually i want to consider we just have ely and fischer, hoping they'll not go somwhere else.spahja was a bad experience , but is a great coach. i really esteem him for things he made here in italy, and maybe u are right, in maccabi it was shocked by him altought he was in quarter final with a very bad team, even worst than this one. blatt..i consider him an european style coach, it could be the right solution. pini...a great team should consider history of a coach, or the fact that there s a contract . to get things better u need to sacrifice a coach who see a play a so old basket.
i inform u about one rumors very fresh: in maccabi somebody is thinking in belinelli again . he is a great shooter , it will be a good step but this would means that there money and we know, there aren't. last think, money...maccabi is the team of the whole country and there are many rich companies in israel. is so hard to find some of them who could be interested trading with actual macca owners?
Being in California this year has severely limited my access to the IBL, unfortunately. There aren't too many great Israeli shooters that would play a lot of minutes for Maccabi. Sharon Shasson played for them for a while, and now plays for Hapoel Jerusalem. He's probably the highest profile Israeli shooter. Maccabi are adding Guy Pnini next season, a great Israeli SF with a decent shot. I agree that they should focus on rebuilding the starting 5, though. Belinelli would be tough to get since he's under contract until the summer of 2011 with Golden State, and it doesn't look like he will be released any time soon. As for Pini, he may deserve to be fired but again, Maccabi value tradition and history and so do their fans...he's not going to be fired quickly. If he is, I'd bet that Blatt replaces him. Maccabi have wanted Blatt for years now. He's a great coach. Arroyo is problematic since they're paying him a lot of money for weak production...I have no idea what they'll do with him in the summer but I think he'll get another chance.
There are plenty of successful companies in Israel, but at this point everybody is cheap. Nobody is going to invest a lot of money in Maccabi, since sports teams usually cause you to lose money.
Anyway, living in Italy, how did you become a Maccabi fan in the first place?