Another coach, another Maccabi

Our team came to Tel Aviv. Tomorrow the Army Men will try not to let Maccabi start its new era on positive note.

Except for Victor Khryapa and Joel Freeland who continue post-injury rehab, Anton Astapkovich and Mikhail Kulagin stayed in Moscow to help junior team against rivals from Khimki.

“Maccabi has just changed the head coach and that can really shake the team,” CSKA head coach Dimitris Itoudis said. “Besides the coaching staff rested several key players in recent Israeli league game, and that tells how serious they are about our upcoming meeting. Our opponents are very talented individually and as a team, I think the new coach also use the chance to add something new to their game. It is also always tough to play on Nokia Arena in front of 11 thousand fans. As for us, we need to bounce back after the loss to Unicaja and return to the winning path. I like the way our team reacted in the latest game vs UNICS in VTB League and I hope we will continue showing the same effort, especially on defense, and play focused throughout whole game.”

The games of regular season Round 6 will start from the moment of silence to mourn the victims of terrorist attacks in Paris. Our club shares the sadness about the sitiation with whole civilized world. Still we informed the Euroleague management that it should identically react to the similar tragic events that happen in other countries participating in Euroleague and reminded of recent terrorist acts that took lives of Russian, Turkish and Israeli citizens.

Important numbers

Milos Teodosic is tied with retired CSKA star Marcus Brown for seventh place on the all-time Euroleague charts with 327 career three-pointers. Next on the list is another CSKA great, Trajan Langdon, with 339 threes.

Teodosic has made at least 1 three-pointer in 29 consecutive Euroleague games.

Nando De Colo has made at least 1 three-pointer in each of his last 1 Euroleague games.

De Colo has scored in double figures in each of his last 10 Euroleague appearances.

Kyle Hines is closing in on a spot among the competition’s all-time top 10 in blocked shots. He enters this game tied with former CSKA forward Marcus Goree for 12th place with 120 career rejections. Nikola Vujcic (122) is 11th and Darjus Lavrinovic (123) 10th.

Andrey Vorontsevich has made at least 1 three-pointer in each of his last seven Euroleague appearances.

Past matchups

Wins/losses: 19-18.

1974-75 – European Champions Cup. Group Stage: CSKA – Maccabi: (CSKA technical loss)
1974-75 – European Champions Cup. Group Stage: Maccabi – CSKA: (CSKA technical loss)
1976-77 – European Champions Cup. Group Stage: CSKA – Maccabi: 79-91 (-12)
1976-77 – European Champions Cup. Group Stage: Maccabi – CSKA: (CSKA technical loss)
1980-81 – European Champions Cup. Group Stage: CSKA – Maccabi: 83-81 (+2)
1980-81 – European Champions Cup. Group Stage: Maccabi – CSKA: 85-74 (-11)
1982-83 – European Champions Cup. Group Stage: CSKA – Maccabi: 80-84 (-4)
1982-83 – European Champions Cup. Group Stage: Maccabi – CSKA: 69-78 (+9)
1984-85 – European Champions Cup. Group Stage: CSKA – Maccabi: 87-81 (+6)
1984-85 – European Champions Cup. Group Stage: Maccabi – CSKA: 67-79 (+12)
1988-89 – European Champions Cup. Group Stage: CSKA – Maccabi: 92-97 (-5)
1988-89 – European Champions Cup. Group Stage: Maccabi – CSKA: 94-90 (-4)
1994-95 – European Championship for Men’s Clubs. Semifinal Round: CSKA – Maccabi: 87-78 (+9)
1994-95 – European Championship for Men’s Clubs. Semifinal Round: Maccabi – CSKA: 92-89 ОТ (-3)
1996-97 – Euroleague. Qualification Round: CSKA – Maccabi: 89-80 (+9)
1996-97 – Euroleague. Qualification Round: Maccabi – CSKA: 77-78 (+1)
1997-98 – Euroleague. Preliminary Round: CSKA – Maccabi: 71-63 (+8)
1997-98 – Euroleague. Preliminary Round: Maccabi – CSKA: 87-69 (-18)
2000-01 – Suproleague. Semifinal: Maccabi – CSKA: 86-80 (-6)
2001-02 – Euroleague. Top 16: Maccabi – CSKA: 69-68 (-1)
2001-02 – Euroleague. Top 16: CSKA – Maccabi: 81-77 (+4)
2003-04 – Euroleague. Regular Season: Maccabi – CSKA: 84-87 (+3)
2003-04 – Euroleague. Regular Season: CSKA – Maccabi: 80-83 (-3)
2003-04 – Euroleague. Semifinal: Maccabi – CSKA: 93-85 (-8)
2005-06 – Euroleague. Final: CSKA – Maccabi: 73-69 (+4)
2006-07 – Euroleague. Playoffs. Quarterfinals: CSKA – Maccabi: 80-58 (+22)
2006-07 – Euroleague. Playoffs. Quarterfinals: Maccabi – CSKA: 68-56 (-12)
2006-07 – Euroleague. Playoffs. Quarterfinals: CSKA – Maccabi: 92-71 (+21)
2007-08 – Euroleague. Final: Maccabi – CSKA: 77-91 (+14)
2009-10 – Euroleague. Regular Season: Maccabi – CSKA: 71-54 (-17)
2009-10 – Euroleague. Regular Season: CSKA – Maccabi: 77-72 (+5)
2013-14 – Euroleague. Top 16: CSKA – Maccabi: 100-65 (+35)
2013-14 – Euroleague. Top 16: Maccabi – CSKA: 76-81 (+5)
2013-14 – Euroleague. Semifinal: CSKA – Maccabi: 67-68 (-1)
2014-15 – Euroleague. Regular Season: CSKA – Maccabi: 99-80 (+18)
2014-15 – Euroleague. Regular Season: Maccabi – CSKA: 61-84 (+23)
2015-16 – Euroleague. Regular Season: CSKA – Maccabi: 100-69 (+31)

Short dossier

Maccabi Fox Tel-Aviv, Israel
Founded: 1932
Colors: yellow, blue
Home court: Nokia Arena (11,000)
President: Shimon Mizrahi
Head coach: Zan Tabak
Website: www.maccabi.co.il
Accomplishments: Euroleague champions (1977, 81, 2004, 05, 14), Suproleague champions (2001), Adriatic League champions (2012), Intercontinental Cup winners (1980), Israeli champions (1954, 55, 57-59, 62-64, 67, 68, 70-92, 94-2007, 09, 11, 12, 14), Israeli Cup winners (1956, 58, 59, 61, 63-66, 70-73, 75, 77-83, 85-87, 89-91, 94, 98-2006, 10-15)