{"id":30459,"date":"2011-01-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/blatt-we-dont-show-mercy-to-anyone\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:37:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:37:01","slug":"blatt-we-dont-show-mercy-to-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/blatt-we-dont-show-mercy-to-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Blatt: \u201cWe don\u2019t show mercy to anyone.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Amy Samin<\/FONT>

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In response to a question about his facial expression, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s head coach David Blatt<\/B> replied, \u201cI\u2019m happy.
You don\u2019t always have to smile when you\u2019re happy.
My players come to win; they don\u2019t care about the crowd, and they don\u2019t care if it\u2019s an away game or a home game.
There are things we could have done better, and my job is to think about those things as we move forward.
After every victory, they say it wasn\u2019t a real test for us, but it was.
Every time you win and overcome such a difficult atmosphere, you move forward.\u201d<\/FONT>

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\u201cThere\u2019s no shame in the fact that Sofo is one of our leading players,\u201d said Blatt in response to a comment about Maccabi\u2019s dependence on the Greek center, Sofoklis Schortsanitis.
\u201cWhen Kobe isn\u2019t on the court, the Lakers also don\u2019t look as good.
I\u2019m pleased with what Ma\u010dvan did today, and also with the fact that we played excellent defense.\u201d When asked if he was nervous about the lottery for the Euroleague Top 16 (which takes place 4 January), Blatt said, \u201cWe all know that there\u2019s going to be a lottery and that it\u2019s important, but we\u2019ve already done our part.
We finished the first round in first place, and the rest is up to God.\u201d<\/FONT>
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Doron Perkins<\/B>, who was outstanding with 22 points, said briefly, \u201cIt\u2019s a big win, but we can\u2019t celebrate too much because it\u2019s just another win.\u201d<\/FONT>

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Tal Burstein<\/B> concluded, \u201cIt was a tough came, we knew Jerusalem wouldn\u2019t be complacent and we fought for every ball.
For them, every game against us is a war.
We controlled the game from the beginning.
We had too many turnovers, but we made up for that with good defense and with drives to the basket.\u201d<\/FONT>
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After his team\u2019s 84 \u2013 73 win over Hapoel Jerusalem at Malha Arena, Blatt said, \u201cEvery time you win a game in a difficult atmosphere, you move forward. My players come to win. They don\u2019t care about the crowd or playing an away game.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-30459","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\/30459","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=30459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495876,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30459\/revisions\/495876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30459"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=30459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}