{"id":500128,"date":"2016-12-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/ainars-bagatskis-we-need-more-discipline-and-consistency\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:29:49","slug":"ainars-bagatskis-we-need-more-discipline-and-consistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/ainars-bagatskis-we-need-more-discipline-and-consistency\/","title":{"rendered":"Ainars Bagatskis: \u201cwe need more discipline and consistency\u201d"},"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\/p0K8NCyCCos\" 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 style=\"direction: ltr; \">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi Fox Tel Aviv presented its new head coach, Inars Bagatskis, today (Sunday), in a press conference. Bagatskis spoke to the media before addressing his players ahead of the two matches that the team faces this week: against Rishon Lezionm and Baskonia Vitoria.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">\u201cI\u2019ve seen plenty of matches in the last few days and the one thing I can already see we\u2019re lacking is discipline and consistency on defense and in general. Maccabi plays very well for 20 minutes out of a whole game\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">\u201cI believe in fast-paced transition basketball. Therefore, I try to use 10 players for each game at least. If we play my pace and my way, no player will be able to go for over 25 minutes. Having said that, I believe in everybody doing their job. I can tell that all players will get a chance\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">\u201cWe need to implement our talent on offense and play more consistently on defense. Above all of that, we need to control our egos and get on the same page\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div> \t\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi presented its new head Coach: \u201cI have to figure out why we play well for 20-25 minutes and not the whole game\u201d. Vujcic: \u201cwe\u2019ll keep fighting and bring back Maccabi to its rightful place\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-500128","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\/500128","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=500128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500131,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500128\/revisions\/500131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500128"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=500128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}