{"id":32021,"date":"2012-02-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/blatt-we-played-an-outstanding-game\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:41:58","slug":"blatt-we-played-an-outstanding-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/blatt-we-played-an-outstanding-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Blatt: \u201cWe played an outstanding game\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cDan Shamir and I have been on the winning side together in many battles,\u201d said David Blatt<\/B> of the Holon coach after the game. \u201cWe also lost the Russian Cup final together. It\u2019s no fun competing against friends, I don\u2019t enjoy it. On the other hand, I did enjoy the game we played; we needed to play well and we did.\u201d<\/FONT>
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\u201cWhen you play against Holon you have to disrupt their game,\u201d the coach went on. \u201cWe were able to do that. With our backs to the wall, we opened the second half with two three pointers and some free throws, and that changed the whole dynamic of the game. Holon was forced to chase us, and we\u2019re not an easy team to catch.\u201d<\/FONT> <\/P>

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\u201cWe played an outstanding game,\u201d Blatt continued. \u201cIt\u2019s a sweet victory for many new Maccabi players, and an opportunity to go to the Final and compete for the title against another good team, Maccabi Rishon Lezion. The fact that we have another two days to prepare for that game will help us. I said in the locker room that David Federman, Udi Recanati, Shimon Mizrahi, and God \u2013 not necessarily in that order \u2013 arranged for us to have another day to prepare for this game [when the Adriatic League game last Saturday was cancelled]; otherwise I\u2019m not sure we would have looked so good tonight.\u201d<\/FONT>
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Regarding the injury suffered by Greek center Sofo Schortsanitis, Blatt said, \u201cIf I had another option I wouldn\u2019t play Sofo, but I have no choice. I hope the injury tonight isn\u2019t serious. Sofo has an ongoing problem with his knee; I\u2019m sick of talking about it already. He plays because he\u2019s tough and he wants to help his team.\u201d<\/FONT>
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Devin Smith<\/B>, who scored a season-high 20 points, said, \u201cWe had time to prepare, and the coaches prepared everything really well. We executed and translated over to the floor. They\u2019re a tough team, and we came out and fought for forty minutes.\u201d<\/FONT> <\/P>

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Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s head coach David Blatt was pleased with his players, who fought hard and defeated Hapoel Holon 91 \u2013 70 in the Israel Cup Semifinal Monday night. \u201cIt\u2019s a sweet victory for many new Maccabi players, and an opportunity to go to the Final and compete against Maccabi Rishon Lezion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-32021","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\/32021","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=32021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496705,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32021\/revisions\/496705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32021"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=32021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}