Maccabi’s coach after the 85:80 loss in the derby: “We missed so many lay-ups but we fight, I cannot say anything to my players, they were in the game all the time”
“We fought and we tried” said Coach Spahija, “At the end of the game they had some better calls I’m talking about the plays that they made on the court, the important baskets and they won, overall we didn’t play like we needed to, the difference between us and them was on the second chance points and turnovers, they scored 36 points and we scored around 24 it’s a big difference”.
Coach Spahija added: “I’m so sorry for our amazing fans I know that this game is important for them, but it’s not easy for my players to play so many games against teams who’s pretty good, well coached but we are going to come back we’re gonna be better, we need the time to practice and to be together but this time Hapoel deserve to win. We missed so many lay-ups but we fight, I cannot say anything to my players, they were in the game all the time, I’ve coached for 30 years I know how to react in these situations if my team gives up two months before the end of the league then it doesn’t make sense to me. We have to improve our basketball and that’s what is important not what our position in the standings is”.
John-Di: “Tough game for us, they played great and capitalized on our mistake. We still need to fix more things so that we can succeed. The third round will be the key, it’s important that we’ll be together, to practice more so that we can play our best basketball in the final stages”.
