{"id":500337,"date":"2017-02-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/goudelock-tired-of-hearing-that-jerusalem-are-favorites\/"},"modified":"2017-02-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T10:00:00","slug":"goudelock-tired-of-hearing-that-jerusalem-are-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/goudelock-tired-of-hearing-that-jerusalem-are-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Goudelock: \u201cTired of hearing that Jerusalem are favorites\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Tonight, it will finally <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">happen:<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> The tip-off for the \u2018classic\u2019 match up of Israeli Basketball, for the Israeli cup. On one side, there\u2019s Maccabi, who edged a victory over Ashdod in the semi-final and on the other side, Hapoel Jerusalem. This will be the 11th time these teams meet in the cup final, with the record being 7 \u2013 3 for Maccabi, who will also look to extend the cup streak to 8 years in a row.<\/p>\n<p> \tAndrew Goudelock couldn\u2019t help himself when asked if<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Jersualem<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> were the favorites. \u201cHell, no\u201d, he responded and continued: \u201cI\u2019m tired of hearing that, tired of hearing that. Nobody going to say that, I don\u2019t want to hear that anymore. Y\u2019all want to say that, y\u2019all going to keep it to yourselves. We\u2019re going to see tomorrow. There\u2019s a championship on the line, a cup on the line, we\u2019ll see then.<\/p>\n<p> \t\u201cWe owe this to our fans, we\u2019ve been playing terrible, having a bad season. We got to show them something. Fight for them. We have the jerseys on our backs for a reason.<br \/> \t\u201cIt makes it a lot better to win on someone else\u2019s court. Their fans are mad, yelling, throwing stuff. I\u2019ve won like this before, it feels great. Much better than losing here, seeing confetti falling from the sky\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> \tGuy Pnini, the team\u2019s captain: \u201cIn a tough season like this one, a win could provide a major mental push for what lies ahead. We will never be underdogs in Israel. But I don\u2019t think we\u2019re favorites, either. It\u2019s 50-50 and equally important for both clubs\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the cup final at Pais Arena, Jerusalem (Thursday, 9:00 pm), the guard is taking things personally: \u201cWon\u2019t hear any more of that talk\u201d. Guy Pnini: \u201cWe will never be considered underdogs in Israel\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-500337","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\/500337","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=500337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500337"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=500337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}