{"id":500793,"date":"2017-10-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/spahija-without-our-fans-it-means-nothing-to-me\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:42:38","slug":"spahija-without-our-fans-it-means-nothing-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/spahija-without-our-fans-it-means-nothing-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Spahija: &#8220;Without our fans, it means nothing to me&#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\/dljumuzPPU8\" 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 dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi&#8217;s head coach, Neven Spahija: &#8220;Without our fans, it means nothing to me. I want to congratulate everyone- the team, the staff, and most of all our fans. We had a pretty good preseason. Unfortunately, three of our players were injured, and that&#8217;s why I used a shorter rotation. We&#8217;ve improved and played great at the beginning of the game, but we also made a lot of mistakes after, we were missing our PG&#8217;s and that was visible in these parts of the game, and everyone saw the great work by John DiBartolomeo and Michael Roll did, it wasn&#8217;t easy. I want our fans to come to the arena and support us in our games.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \tDeShaun Thomas, who scored 20 points said: &#8220;it feels great, we have a new team, we won a title and I want to thank my teammates. We&#8217;ve played the Maccabi basketball, listened to the coach and we won. It&#8217;s all about working hard and team effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> \tMichael Roll who also won his first title with the yellow jersey added: &#8220;We&#8217;re a new team, and winning a title is always a great accomplishment. Though I played substantial minutes at the PG position, it&#8217;s not my &#8220;natural&#8221; position, I&#8217;ll do whatever is needed for the team including playing as a\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">point<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> guard which I&#8217;ve done in the past&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi will open its season next week and it will do so eagerly after beating Naharya in the finals of Winner Cup 93-73 and winning its first title of the season in front of 3500 fans who colored Holon&#8217;s gym in yellow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-500793","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\/500793","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=500793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500796,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500793\/revisions\/500796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500793"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=500793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}