{"id":500909,"date":"2017-11-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/spahija-i-want-to-see-a-better-maccabi\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:45:08","slug":"spahija-i-want-to-see-a-better-maccabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/spahija-i-want-to-see-a-better-maccabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Spahija:&#8221; I want to see a better Maccabi&#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\/-9WQtX_o3v4\" 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;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv, bounced back from its back to back loses in the EuroLeague as they beat Milano 79-68 <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">en route<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> of improving their standings to sixth place with a 3-2 record. Six players scored in double figures for Maccabi as 10,600 fans in yellow and blue, and above all a stellar MVP performance by Tyus who finished with a <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">double double<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> of 12p &#038; 15r, Thomas added 14, Kane 12, and dominant team effort on the boards have played a decisive role in getting the win.<\/p>\n<p> \tNeven Spahija was satisfied with his team&#8217;s performance but clarified: &#8220;This is still not the Maccabi I want to see. We can still improve and look better. I think that tonight was our best third quarter from the beginning of the season, and we are starting to play better, I think that we will have to play better against Madrid, but we will give everything we got against them. I want to thank our fans for their support.<\/p>\n<p> \tAlex Tyus the game MVP added: &#8220;I think we all did a good job. Everyone played with a lot of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">energies<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> especially on the defensive end. We&#8217;ve played against a very good offensive team, so it was extremely important&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi&#8217;s head coach Neven Spahija looks forward to Madrid: &#8220;We will have to play a bit better versus Madrid, but we will give everything we got against them, I want to thank our crowd for their support&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-500909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500909","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=500909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500911,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500909\/revisions\/500911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500909"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=500909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}