{"id":500510,"date":"2017-05-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/bagatskis-we-know-what-it-takes-to-win-the-championship\/"},"modified":"2017-05-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T09:00:00","slug":"bagatskis-we-know-what-it-takes-to-win-the-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/bagatskis-we-know-what-it-takes-to-win-the-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagatskis: \u201cWe know what it takes to win the championship\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Following the impressive road win, 88 \u2013 74, both the coach and the leading scorer faced the media.<\/p>\n<p> \tHead coach, Ainars Bagatskis: \u201cWe know generally what we need to do to play like a championship team. From the first<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">minutes<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> we started with aggressiveness, passes, speed and proved that we could be the champions. Most important was how we started and continued. Of course, we didn\u2019t keep it up the whole game but it was enough. It was good to have Seeley back, he gave some rest to Gal and Yogi, but anything individual is not important, just to support each other. Joe was excellent and I think he could do this every game\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> \tJoe Alexander, the game\u2019s MVP: \u201cWe re-focused. We have one goal in mind and that is to win the championship. I don\u2019t care about my good game. We\u2019re a team and we have a goal. We\u2019re tired of how other teams are playing against us. We\u2019re coming for the championship. Teams are acting as if they forgot about us but this the end of the season and we\u2019re here\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head coach after the win against Rishon: \u201cWhen we start with good energy, we win\u201d. Alexander, who led all scorers with 25 points: \u201cWe have one goal and that is the championship\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-500510","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\/500510","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=500510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500510"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=500510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}