Mar 28, 2009, 10:44 pm
First of all don't exaggerate, how Arroyo can be one of "the worst players in maccabi" in the last 10 years, when he is one of the best PG in the Euroleague - he is fifth in Asist's and ninth in ninth in points in the Euroleague full season. Arroyo has 4.1 asist's per a game and only 2 turnovers per a games- this is a great asists-turnover ratio. Even the Israeli media that (in my opinion) is "killing" Arroyo say the he is one of the most talanted players that played in Maccab, but they also say that he is too expensive for Maccabi's budget.
As I said, I believe that if around Arroyo were better players he probably would looked better, in the top16 Marcus Brown didn't show up to the important games (had only 4/17 FG in the important games in the top16), D'or Fischer was injured and didn't played 2 games (and in the other 2 games he wasn't so good) and even Eliyahu was mediocre. Arroyo is the only one that looked good in the top16 (exept one game against Barcelona). Most of the games Arroyo didn't score much in the first quarter and tried to let his team-mates into the games but most of the player's just sucked! Arroyo started to take games on himself when he realized that he is the only player that is "in the game". BTW Arroyo has great stats - 14.6 points, 4.1 asist's and only 2 turnover's, in statistics he is one of the best PG in the Euroleague.
Maccabi lost her important games to Real Madrid and Barcelona because Maccabi didn't had one decent Center this season, Fischer is a great player but he is better as a PF, he didn't looked good against Real Madrid and Barcelona strong Centers.
I respect your opinion, but maybe we see diffrent games :-)
As I said, I believe that if around Arroyo were better players he probably would looked better, in the top16 Marcus Brown didn't show up to the important games (had only 4/17 FG in the important games in the top16), D'or Fischer was injured and didn't played 2 games (and in the other 2 games he wasn't so good) and even Eliyahu was mediocre. Arroyo is the only one that looked good in the top16 (exept one game against Barcelona). Most of the games Arroyo didn't score much in the first quarter and tried to let his team-mates into the games but most of the player's just sucked! Arroyo started to take games on himself when he realized that he is the only player that is "in the game". BTW Arroyo has great stats - 14.6 points, 4.1 asist's and only 2 turnover's, in statistics he is one of the best PG in the Euroleague.
Maccabi lost her important games to Real Madrid and Barcelona because Maccabi didn't had one decent Center this season, Fischer is a great player but he is better as a PF, he didn't looked good against Real Madrid and Barcelona strong Centers.
I respect your opinion, but maybe we see diffrent games :-)