Does less pressure make for better basketball?
“I believe that the best four teams reach the Final Four. I don’t feel the pressure so far, not here. I don’t know what the pressure will be in the coming days, but I don’t feel it here so far. I know how the situation was last season, two or three days before the Final Four, and we have experience from that situation. Maybe we won’ t have any pressure. Maybe it will come now. I can’t say. But right now, we are trying to prepare the team professionally, not psychologically, because I don’t feel the need for it.” Some of your players have said that Maccabi has played better basketball this season than last, in part because there was less pressure. Do you agree? “I can tell you that it’s an advantage to play two years on row on same level with a lot of the same players. If they say we are playing better, what can I say? The second years are usually better, and a third year together would be, too. I think the communication is better. In the Top 16 we played better defense, while during mo
