Maccabi’s head coach Giannis Sfairopoulos after the 77:87 win against Herzliya on the road: “You always have to be ready to play with aggressiveness and to be focused or else they will make us pay for it”
“There are no easy games in this league”, said Coach Giannis Sfairopoulos. “It’s very equal and you always have to be ready to play with aggressiveness and to be focused or else they will make us pay for it. Today we managed to that thanks to a good second half, we remained focused and kept our rhythm and that’s what gave us the win”.
“Against Baskonia it will be a different game and of course we will prepare for it”, added the coach. “We expected a tough game, they scored 105 points a few days ago, we started the game focused and we kept it for most parts. There were some moments that we weren’t aggressive enough, we know that we need to fight every game very hard, we reacted well after the game (i.e. Ness Ziona) but that doesn’t mean that we can’t improve our game”.
“In this time of the year, having four games this week, and before the national team’s window, we couldn’t practice. It’s hard to improve without working on the court”, Sfairopoulos explained. “I saw an improvement and I’m happy, the only player that played a lot of minutes is Zoosman but he’s young and his body can recover faster”.
