Israeli Basketball

It will depend who slips but it looks like Casspi has earned enough interest to play in the nba next season, we'll see what maccabi does with Anton Shoutvin.

Effi Birenboim will be replacing Ziv Sherf but Sherf will remain with the maccabi organization. Maccabi's inability to get an established euroleague coach is likely a sign of problems within the organization.

Nikola Vujcic is leaving maccabi, he would earn more money with other teams and was too much of a finesse player for the israeli league.

Maccabi Haifa has signed Ido Kozikaro and Sharon Sasson. The league spread itself thin with 12 teams and will rely on unproven players in interleague and league competition.

Maccabi is reportedly trying to sign Guy Pniny and there's no official information coming from Omri Casspi workouts. What is available is the bloggers and reporters with no association with israel saying that he's doing very well, you never know until draft day but Casspi is likely gone from maccabi.

Yotam Halperin maybe leaving maccabi for Olympiacos

Casspi has spurn the nba and decided to remain with maccabi for more money, it's a good thing for maccabi because they had already lost Halperin to Olympiacos and Eliyahu to either Tau or Holon. He was going to be either a late first round or early second round pick but it looks like the nba isn't as big of a deal as it used to be. Too bad for the nba, teams are having a hard time paying the bills and needed a new market.

Looks as if Denver wanted Halperin's rights from Seattle but Halperin would make more money with Olympiacos.

It looks as if Lior Eliyahu is going to screw maccabi and sign with Tau Ceramica. Good for him, maccabi treated him like **** and used patriotism as they always do to rationalize it.

[QUOTE=b.jerk]It looks as if Lior Eliyahu is going to screw maccabi and sign with Tau Ceramica. Good for him, maccabi treated him like **** and used patriotism as they always do to rationalize it.[/QUOTE]
Eliyahu is a really underestimated player and totally misused by maccabi and israel.Last year in the euros(why do israel play in them?another story)he was their best player when they decided to play him against croatia and then the next game back to then bench.With Maccabi its the same.Is it true he is going to TAU?I hope Ivanovic won't destroy his career like he almost certainly has at barca with vasquez,kasun and nearly ilyasova.Kozikuro and shasson are good local signings for maccabi.I think there should be no israeli teams in the euroleague,however as that is not the case,I think Israel and russia deserve two teams ,they are far better than the Fench and German muck that we get every year devaluating the competition.

In the past other euroleague countries didn't scout in israel but it's different now. Israel could have two good euroleague teams and be a smaller Greece but they rather have a 12 team bsl and a 16 team soccer league.

[QUOTE=b.jerk]In the past other euroleague countries didn't scout in israel but it's different now. Israel could have two good euroleague teams and be a smaller Greece but they rather have a 12 team bsl and a 16 team soccer league.[/QUOTE]
12 and 16 are good numbers respectively.

No it's 12 and 16 is past their market size and it only benefits maccabi

doesn't look like eliyahu has signed for TAU.Infact Pamesa want him.and cajasol want Limonad.

I really don't care but it's so obvious that I have to say this. The israeli national teams have the worse coaching ever, most coaches prepare their teams for every game but the israeli teams are only prepared 60% of the time. They never make it to the next round because they either lose to portugal, or to Italy by 40 but they beat Serbia or Croatia or Lithuania. They would even beat teams like Spain and Greece sometimes if they were prepared for four quarters. And it's always the same coaches that always justify their incompetence by blaming the players.

Sport5 is online and there is a whole community around the world the have links to archived and live broadcasts. The government limits broadcasting of private media(just think if all television was like PBS) and there's a whole net media thing that is exist as a counterbalance that I don't necessarily agree with but I understand why it's there. Really webtv and internet news exists today the way it does because of what those guys did.

Arroyo to maccabi.
Very good signing bjerk?

I think Carlos Arroyo and his Puerto Rico pride is going to take a hit with Maccabi. In a month or two he's going to look human and the spectators will either by saying that he wasn't any good or the guard play in the bsl was underrated. Regardless, Maccabi is no olympiacos.

I hear moni fanan has finally retired and shelef taken over.Is this good or bad ?