Thedragonking wrote:Lol maccabi Tel Aviv lost twice, including last game against Reshon leZion, and bearly beaten Jerusalem in the first game + lost early games to them before the coronavirus break! so i guess that the competition isn't that bad if a top 6-8
( they were actually ranked 5 in the euroleague!) Euroleague team, is having a hard time against.
They don't even care to win those games. They try to keep players from injury. And they don't even use the same player rotations they use in EuroLeague, even in the games they are trying to win. Not to mention games where they already clinched the 1 seed, so had no reason to win.
Earlier I put this into NCAA terms so Americans might understand, I will try this time with NBA compared to G-League and NCAA.
EuroLeague (NBA)
a level of pro leagues below
EuroCup / FIBA Basketball Champions League (G-League)
a level of pro leagues below
Israeli League (NCAA DI)
It's literally two entire league system levels of competition lower. You would find a total of zero people that follow European basketball regularly that would ever take a random Israeli League team as any competition for a EuroLeague team. There wouldn't be anyone in Europe that follows European basketball that would think that.
There have been many examples of the best players on Israeli League teams going to Maccabi Tel Aviv and then being the 15th man of that team. The best player of another BSL team, then the next year is the 15th man of Maccabi. Numerous examples. This shouldn't even be counted as a discussion, because it's not even remotely worth discussing.