{"id":24430,"date":"2003-09-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/16-pts-by-sharp-were-not-enough-vs-spain\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:14:28","slug":"16-pts-by-sharp-were-not-enough-vs-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/16-pts-by-sharp-were-not-enough-vs-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"16 pts by Sharp were not enough vs Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Israel national team will play for places 5-8 in the European Championship in Stockholm. This after losing in the quarter finals 64-78 to Spain. Tomorrow (Friday, 22:00) Israel will play  Greece who lost tonight 59-62 to Italy.<BR>  The Israeli players were in the game until the final quarter despite losing captain Yoav Saffar with a back injury at the beginning of the third quarter. In the final period, NBA star Pau Gasol, exploited the absence of Yani Green (fouled out) to open a gap almost on his own. He scored 25 pts &#038; pulled down 5 rbds.<BR> Derrick Sharp was Israel&#8217;s best player with 16 pts (4-8 for three) and good defense. Tal Burstein had a poor shooting game with 4 pts (2-9 FG). Saffar scored 4, Shelef 2 &#038; Halperin played but did not score.<BR> <\/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-24430","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\/24430","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=24430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493067,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24430\/revisions\/493067"}],"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=24430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24430"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=24430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}