{"id":24436,"date":"2003-09-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/halperin-the-only-light-in-the-loss-to-greece\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:14:28","slug":"halperin-the-only-light-in-the-loss-to-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/halperin-the-only-light-in-the-loss-to-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Halperin &#8211;  the only Light in the loss to Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Israel national team will play Russia on Sunday (12:00) to decide 7th place in the European Championship. This after a 54-63 loss to Greece.<BR> The Israeli players, in their sixth game in 8 days, looked very tired and scored only 22 points in the first half to Greece 36. Yotam Halperin was introduced for the second half and the Israeli offense improved and scored 34 pts in the lasrt 20 minutes. Halperin was Israel&#8217;s best player with 12 pts, 5 rbds, 3 assists &#038; 2 steals.<BR> Captain Yoav Saffar, who was injured in the game vs Spain, did not take part. Tal Burstein had 8 pts &#038; 6 rbds &#038; Derrick Sharp 3 pts. Gur Shelef did not score.<BR> Serbia-Montenegro beat Russia 86-77 and will play Greece for fifth place on Sunday. The semi finals will be played today (Saturday): France &#8211; Lithuania (15:00, live on Sport 5+), Spain &#8211; Italy.<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-24436","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\/24436","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=24436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493069,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24436\/revisions\/493069"}],"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=24436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24436"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=24436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}