Israel in youth competitions in Europe

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Israel 71-57 England

At last we look like a proud nation of guards should look like : 24 assists, 18 steals

The best performing roster consisted of 4 guards (Timor, Arieli, Lavie ,Labanowsky) + 1 undersized center ( Solomon )

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To those it may concern ,

U20 crushed both rivals in fight for 5th place. Too bad we lost to Bulgary

U18 started really well with 4-0 so far winning +20 on average, next round : Estonia and pretty strong Montenegro team

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Israel U18 lost to Montenegro ( Serbia2 ) 70-77 , bad luck is mostly to blame due to horrendous FT/3PTS percentages . Anyway both teams looked pretty solid & I won't be surprised they will meet in the final .


31.07.2010 Semis ( a win means DivA next summer )
Israel - Finland
Montenegro - Czech

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2 missed FTs away from getting back to DivisionA. Damn it,

It was too much pressure for u18 kids, I guess.

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For those it may concern:

Israel U16 NT ( the only Israeli youth team that avoided re-delegation last summer ) struggles against DivisionB this season too.

Tomorrow ( 16.08.2010 ) @ 16:30 CET is do-or-die match against Latvia.

Wish good luck to ze boyz

[Billy Bounce]

Damn, all Israeli youth NTs are now in DivisionB

Head of basketball federation Shay Sheni claims to take personal measures. I'd advice him to look at the mirror, for a change: it's pretty stupid to appoint all youth coaches from those who had a disastrous season in BSL : Gino, Franco, Belinko . If he want to improve their renome, better to improve it in Leumit , not to risk youth teams ( future of Israel basketball)

I'd like to hear from why Katash & Shamir are wasted as assistant coaches with adult NT ... if you don't trust Shivek as a head coach, don't appoint him .

I'm so tired of this freaking "politics" in Isareli basketball federation

[pohani komarac]

Israel U-16 selection few days ago played against Zagreb city selection

ZAGREB - IZRAEL 82:51 (22:9;16:12;27:16;17:14 )
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ZAGREB: Šarić 8, Novković 3, Bešlić 13, Anzulović 2, Milatić 8, Skokna 1, Lučić 3, Tomić 7, Rebić 9, Zebić 2, Mazalin 21, Vranković 5, treneri: Lozanić I. i Kukić N.
IZRAEL : Zov-Av 2, Shimoni, Kirshenbum 7, Halizer, Haimovitz 5, Ben Shitrit 8, Ben Ishay, Yuval 1, Shloim 4, Sorkin, Paz 10, Tisona 6, Ben David 8, treneri: Gino Y. i Eytan E.