Stefano Pillastrini gone, Montegranaro hired coach Sharon Drucker to substitute him. Born in 1967, the Israeli coach won the ULEB cup in 2004 with Hapoel Jerusalemm upsetting Real Madrid in the final. He then took over Ural Great in Russia, with which he won the Eurochallenge in 2006. He has won the league and the cup in Belgium in Ostende and has also been Pini Gershon’s assistant at Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2008-09. He had begun the season at Aris in Greece.