{"id":499648,"date":"2016-09-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/iverson-this-is-a-team-thats-built-to-make-the-final-four\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:22:44","slug":"iverson-this-is-a-team-thats-built-to-make-the-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/iverson-this-is-a-team-thats-built-to-make-the-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Iverson: &#8220;This is a team that&#8217;s built to make the Final Four&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsive-video-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hOrxGoXyi-c\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; \">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Colton Iverson has only been a part of Maccabi Fox Tel Aviv for two weeks but in his eyes, it&#8217;s more than enough to recognize the vast potential this team holds. &#8220;Maccabi is a great club&#8221;&#8216;, said Iverson, &#8220;everyone speaks highly of it. There&#8217;s a wonderful tradition here and it&#8217;s very exciting to be as part of it&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">As far as expectations go, the big man is not afraid to set the bar high: &#8220;When i was looking at the team, while i was looking to transfer, it was an eye opening expirience. We have scoring options in every position with multiple players. We&#8217;re athletic, big and strong. This is a team that&#8217;s going to be in the Final Four and contend for the championship. That&#8217;s the way we\u2019re built and that&#8217;s our goal&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Iverson also like his place in the system implemented by Coach Erez Edelstein: &#8220;I feel like I\u2019m underrated as a passer so I like being in a system where I don&#8217;t just sit in the paint all game. I look forward to getting out to the mid or high post, passing and doing a lot of pick and rolls&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div> \t\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi&#8217;s new addition at center is not afraid to set the bar high: &#8220;this team was built to go far. I love the roster and the system&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":473150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-499648","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\/499648","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=499648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499649,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499648\/revisions\/499649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499648"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=499648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}