2010-11 Results

Euroleague

Regular Season: 9-1

Top 16: 3-3

Playoffs: 3-1

Final Four: Finalist

Israeli League: Champion

Israeli Cup: Champion

Maccabi Electra comes off a return-to-form season in which the team won the Israeli League, the Israeli Cup and advanced to the continental final for the seventh time in 12 years. With David Blatt back as coach, Maccabi aims for even more in the 2011-12 season, as it has all it takes to win the Turkish Airlines Euroleague - a well-respected boss, tons of experience, an ever-competitive roster and above all, some of the most-loyal fans in the world. Maccabi has been a key club in European basketball history, putting Israel on the sporting map and dominating its national league, winning some 39 league titles in 42 years. Maccabi has also accumulated five European titles and has appeared in 14 continental championship games, which ties it for the all-time record with another legendary club, Real Madrid. Its formula of complementing the best Israeli players with talented, committed stars from abroad always seems to work for Maccabi. Players like Miki Berkowitz, Tal Brody, Motti Aroesti, Kevin Magee, Doron Jamchy, Earl Williams and Aulcie Perry and more recently Derrick Sharp, Sarunas Jasikevicius, Anthony Parker and Nikola Vujcic belong to the elite of all-time European basketball greats. Maccabi won its first Euroleague title in 1977 - changing European basketball history forever - and did it again in 1981 with Berkowitz as its very own superstar. Maccabi had to wait until 2001 to lift the SuproLeague trophy, which broke a string of five continental final appearances that ended the wrong way. Maccabi fans did not have to wait too much longer for another big title, as it all clicked in the 2003-04 season. Sharp’s miracle three-pointer to survive the Top 16 that year has become one of the classic shots in European basketball history and simply unforgettable for any Maccabi fan. Once in the 2004 Final Four, Maccabi turned to record breaking with an outstanding 118-point title game performance to batter Bologna. The next year Maccabi became the first team to repeat as Euroleague champion since Split in 1991. Jasikevicius, Parker, Tal Burstein, Maceo Baston and Vujcic, coached by Pini Gershon, became a classic lineup in European basketball history. Maccabi got back to the Euroleague final for the third year in a row in 2006, but CSKA stood in the way of a three-peat. CSKA remained a thorn in Maccabi’s side, downing Maccabi in the 2007 playoffs and the 2008 Euroleague final. Maccabi did not get back to the Final Four again until last season, when Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Jeremy Pargo and Lior Eliyahu joined David Blu, Chuck Eidson and Doron Perkins to make up a strong team. Maccabi downed Caja Laboral in the playoffs and knocked off Madrid in the semifinal to reach the title game. Panathinaikos prevailed in the final but Maccabi set the basis for a bright future. With its outstanding fan base and winning tradition, Maccabi will be ready to match its great results in 2010-11 – and will try to do even better by lifting the Euroleague trophy.

Jeremy Pargo

PROVISIONAL ROSTER 2011-12
Jeremy Pargo	G
Doron Perkins	G
David Blu	F
Lior Eliyahu	F
Guy Pnini	F
Tal Burstein	G
Milan Macvan	F
Sofoklis Schortsanitis	C
Devin Smith	G
Shawn James	C
Jon Scheyer	G
Jordan Farmar	G
Yogev Ohayon	G
Head Coach: David Blatt