{"id":24283,"date":"2003-04-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/a-sad-ending-88-91-loss-to-zadar-in-the-final\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:21:32","slug":"a-sad-ending-88-91-loss-to-zadar-in-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/a-sad-ending-88-91-loss-to-zadar-in-the-final\/","title":{"rendered":"A sad ending &#8211; 88-91 loss to Zadar in the Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great dissapointment in the final of the Adriatic League in Ljubljana with the loss 88-91 to KK Zadar.<\/p>\n<p> Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv, that led the League throughout, was finally beaten by a team who made the Final Four in the last minute but presented the best player in 20 years old Marko Popovic.<\/p>\n<p> Maccabi opened with Yotam Halperin on Popovic and he kept him scoreless until the 14th minutes. Maccabi led 20-16 but Zadar ended the first quarter The Croats led 21-20. They increased their lead to 40-34 and at the half Maccabi was 40-43 down.<\/p>\n<p> The third quarter was Maccabi\u2019s best when they took a 59-54 lead and started the final period 64-62 up. But in the final quarter Zadar went into a crazy run. From 68-68 they got to 84-72 with 2 minutes &#038; 35 seconds to go. All court pressure enabled Maccabi to come back to 89-88 mainly through Udrih &#038; Halperin. Popovic made two more free throws with 8 seconds from time. Burstein &#038; Goree failed to enforce an overtime with three pointers  Sharp &#038; Burstein, heroes of the semi final win over Olimpija. failed to score a point as well as Lewis. Zadar had 12-25 in three pointers to Maccabi 7-21.who had the edge in free throws &#038; rebounds.<\/p>\n<p> Popovic was elected MVP of the Final Four. In the final he had 27pts with 69% FG &#038; 83% in FT. He   also recorded 5 assists &#038; 4 rbds.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-24283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24283"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=24283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}