Ibon Navarro and Jared Butler have previewed the EuroLeague matchup between Crvena Zvezda and Maccabi Tel Aviv, highlighting the challenge posed by the Israeli side and the need to stick to their defensive principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ibon Navarro, Crvena Zvezda head coach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMaccabi is a very difficult opponent to prepare for. They\u2019re quite different from a lot of other teams. They have many versatile players. Athletically, they\u2019re very gifted: mobile, strong and tall. Their centers have different options on offense. They can pop out after a screen, use short rolls, but also dive deep to the basket. They have wings who are good defenders but can also create offense from the perimeter. [Yam] Madar is in very good form right now, and so is [Jimmy] Clark. They play a different style of basketball from what we\u2019re used to, so we\u2019re expecting a very tough game. Of course, they only have two wins, but they weren\u2019t far from beating Real Madrid or Barcelona. Valencia is a very tough opponent, and they managed to beat them. So it\u2019s clear we\u2019ll have a lot of problems and a big fight ahead of us. Still, we\u2019re playing at home, in front of our fans, and I\u2019m sure that with their support we\u2019ll find that extra energy that will allow us to be competitive and battle against Maccabi.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jared Butler, Crvena Zvezda guard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMaccabi is a good team. They run a lot of different sets and have a lot of movement and actions they use to try to confuse the opposing defense. I think our job is to stick to our principles and keep doing what we normally do. [Daniel] Theis is, of course, a very versatile big man. They also have two foreign players who are really good and can do a lot on the court. I think those three are the players we have to stop above all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The head coach and Jared Butler highlight Maccabi\u2019s versatility and offensive options, stressing the importance of defensive discipline and home-court support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":499157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-556574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/06\/Ibon-Navarro.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556575,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556574\/revisions\/556575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556574"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=556574"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=556574"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=556574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}