{"id":30730,"date":"2011-03-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/blatt-well-do-everything-we-can-to-win-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:37:38","slug":"blatt-well-do-everything-we-can-to-win-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/blatt-well-do-everything-we-can-to-win-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Blatt: \u201cWe\u2019ll do everything we can to win in Spain\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>By Amy Samin<\/FONT><br \/><BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>About the 82 \u2013 69 loss to Lottomatica Roma, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv head coach <B>David Blatt<\/B> said, \u201cThere\u2019s not a lot to be said, and I\u2019m not going to make excuses.<br \/> We didn\u2019t play well; we didn\u2019t have much energy or focus.<br \/> We turned the ball over 21 times, many times for no good reason.<br \/> It\u2019s an almost unheard of number for us.<br \/> Even when we were in a comfortable position, we kept missing shots, and Roma took advantage of that.<br \/> We need to forget this game and move on.\u201d<\/FONT><br \/><BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>About Maccabi\u2019s opponent in the quarterfinals, Blatt said, \u201cWe know this opponent very well; we played against them twice this season.<br \/> They\u2019re a very high quality team, capable of going even higher than where they are right now.<br \/> They have a lot of depth, quality, and experience.<br \/> It\u2019s definitely going to be a big challenge for us, but it\u2019s a long series and anything is possible.<br \/> Caja Laboral has lost more than a game or two this season.<br \/> We\u2019re going to do everything we can to win there and move up to the Final Four.\u201d<\/FONT><br \/><BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>\u201cNone of us played well.<br \/> Maybe that happened because the game wasn\u2019t an important one,\u201d speculated <B>Lior Eliyahu<\/B>.<br \/> \u201cWe gave them easy shots, we turned the ball over, and we made mistakes.<br \/> It\u2019s probably our worst game this season.<br \/> I think we\u2019re in good shape, and we won\u2019t fall because of two or three games.\u201d<br \/> About Maccabi\u2019s next Euroleague opponent (and incidentally, his former team), Eliyahu said, \u201cCaja is a good team and very dangerous, we beat them once and lost to them once this year.<br \/> We\u2019ll start studying them.<br \/> It\u2019s going to be a tough series, but I hope we will advance to the Final Four.\u201d<\/FONT><br \/><BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>\u201cNone of our shots went in, and we struggled the whole game,\u201d said <B>Chuck Eidson<\/B>.<br \/> \u201cWe didn\u2019t play well, and we have a big fight on Sunday against Hapoel Jerusalem.<br \/> The way we played tonight wouldn\u2019t be enough even in a second-league game in Israel.<br \/> We\u2019re embarrassed by our performance tonight.<br \/> We\u2019ll do what we need to, but I promise that next time we\u2019ll be a lot stronger than we were here.\u201d <\/FONT><br \/><BR><br \/><BR><br \/><BR><\/P> <P><A href=\"https:\/\/www.samintranslations.com\/\" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><U>www.samintranslations.com<\/U><\/FONT><\/A><FONT size=2 face=Arial> <\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach David Blatt prefers to move on: \u201cWe need to forget about this game and look ahead to Caja Laboral; the series against them is a long one and anything is possible.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-30730","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\/30730","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=30730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495993,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30730\/revisions\/495993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30730"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=30730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}