{"id":31811,"date":"2011-12-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/blatt-im-satisfied-but-we-need-to-improve\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:41:04","slug":"blatt-im-satisfied-but-we-need-to-improve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/blatt-im-satisfied-but-we-need-to-improve\/","title":{"rendered":"Blatt: \u201cI\u2019m satisfied, but we need to improve.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>By Amy Samin<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>After the victory over Belgacom Spirou, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s head coach <B>David Blatt<\/B> addressed the end of the regular season: \u201cI\u2019m satisfied that our team has reached the next level in the way that they did, second place in our group with a 7 \u2013 3 record including some very nice results. I\u2019m less satisfied with tonight\u2019s game, if you want to know the truth. We could have played a lot better, and we\u2019ll need to play a lot better in the Top 16 if we want to advance to the next level.\u201d<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>\u201cI think we handled the first half of the season very well,\u201d the coach continued. \u201cWe did a good job handling the uncertainties involved with the signing and eventual departure of Jordan, and the whole story of Jeremy Pargo, who I\u2019m happy to see has fit in very well in the NBA as I expected he would. So far we have found the way to succeed and to win, but in the future we\u2019ll need to be more stable. Obviously we\u2019re going to have more good moments, and many more difficult moments, but the most important thing is to be consistent as a team.\u201d<\/FONT><\/P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><\/FONT> <P align=center><IMG border=1 hspace=0 alt=\"\" align=baseline src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabi.co.il\/mtpic\/136074380-1.jpg\"><\/P> <P><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>Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv finished the Euroleague regular season in second place in their group, but head coach David Blatt knows improvement is needed to make it through the Top 16: \u201cThe most important thing is to be consistent as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-31811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811","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=31811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496619,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811\/revisions\/496619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31811"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=31811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}