Defeated 105-101 against Büyükçekmece Basketball on the road in the 26th week of the Basketball Super League, Galatasaray is only 1 point above the relegation line 4 weeks before the end of the regular season.
The 26th week of the Basketball Super League ended with 4 matches played yesterday. In the match, which was closely related to the relegation line, while defeating Galatasaray 105-101 in Büyükçekmece Basketball field, he took a sigh of relief and made his opponent feel the danger of relegation.
THE LAST 4 WEEKS WILL DETERMINE THE FATE OF THE YELLOW-RED TEAM
Galatasaray ranked 14th in the league with 8 wins and 18 losses while entering the last four weeks, only 1 point above OGM Ormanspor in 15th place and Lokman Hekim Fethiye Belediye Spor in the 16th place. The yellow-red team, which started the season with a penalty of -1 point on the grounds that it does not comply with the financial criteria, will be in critical battles in the remaining four weeks. Galatasaray will host HDI Sigorta Afyon Belediyespor in the play-off game next week, and then go to Pınar Karşıyaka. In the last two weeks, the yellow-reds, who will host Frutti Extra Bursaspor first, will face their arch-rival Fenerbahçe Beko on the road in the last week.
TECHNICAL TEAM AND STAFF STABILITY COULD NOT BE ACHIEVED
The main reason why Galatasaray remained far below expectations this season is the lack of stability in the technical team and staff. The yellow-red team, which started the season under the management of Ertuğrul Erdoğan, parted ways with the experienced head coach after the bad results and decided to continue the season with his assistant Ömer Uğurata. Dissatisfied with Ömer Uğurata’s performance, the management appointed Ekrem Satnun, who won the Euroleague Championship with the Galatasaray Women’s Basketball Team and was the head coach of the A National Women’s Basketball Team. Having decided to complete the league with Satisfied, Galatasaray has struggled with 3 different head coaches this season.
On the other hand, in addition to the instability of the technical team, a serious change occurred in the cast of Galatasaray during the season. Starting the season with names such as Daryl Macon, Alex Hamilton and Johnathan Williams, the yellow-reds parted their ways with these players at various times during the season. Instead of these players, Assem Marei, Travis Trice, Amile Jefferson, Pierre Jackson and Jordan Crawford joined the cast. The only foreign player who started the season with the team and did not leave the paths stands out as Brock Motum, who also played for Anadolu Efes for a while.
NO SUCCESS IN EUROPE
Competing in Eurocup in recent years, Galatasaray made a decision before this season started and announced that they would compete in the Basketball Champions League. The yellow-red team, which competed in this organization for the first time in its history, finished the group in the last place by winning 1 win and 5 defeats in 6 matches played in the group that includes Iberostar Tenerife, Dinamo Sassari and Bakken Bears, and completed the organization in which it took place for the first time with disappointment.
THE FANS ARE NOT “SATISFIED” WITH THE TEAM’S PERFORMANCE
With the recent defeat of Büyükçekmece Basketball in the yellow-red team, who felt the danger of relegation by winning only 1 in the last 7 weeks, the fans showed their reactions on social media. While the yellow-red fans complained about the performance of the team with four games remaining, they shared that the players should increase their performance and fight.
Sezer AFŞAR / İSTABUL, (DHA)
