{"id":25461,"date":"2005-04-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/sharps-3-pointers-assured-a-sweep-over-rishon\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:26:29","slug":"sharps-3-pointers-assured-a-sweep-over-rishon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/sharps-3-pointers-assured-a-sweep-over-rishon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp&#8217;s 3 pointers assured a sweep over Rishon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Maccabi SK Rishon Letsion led 71-70 with 6:41 minutes left, there were those who remeberd the game in the first round of the regular season when Rishon inflicted on Maccabi their only loss so far in the Premier League. <br \/> But Pini Gershon&#39;s players were determined not to go into a fourth game in the playoff quarter final series and inspired by Derrick Sharp won 88-81 and qualified for the semi finals. <br \/> This time Maccabi found it difficult because of poor shooting fro 2 pts (57%) an d free throwe (58%), beaten badly in the rebounds (32-49)  and having 17 turnovers. On the other hand they were successful with their three pointer \u2013 11 from 26 (42%). <br \/> Maccabi led 23-22 at the end of the first period, 44-42 at half time and 65-62 at the end of the third. <br \/> The MVP for the night was Rishon&#39;s Erwin Dudley with 28 pts at 60% FG &#038; 20 rbds. Best Maccabi player was Anthony Parker with 24 pts at 62% FG, 5 rbds &#038; 4 assists. Other Maccabi scorers: Sharp 17, Burstein 15, Saras 14, Baston 8, Vujcic 6, Halperin 2, Green 2 pts. <br \/> Dixon &#038; Atlas scored 12 pts each for Rishon Letsion. <\/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-25461","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\/25461","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=25461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25461\/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=25461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25461"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=25461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}