{"id":501114,"date":"2017-12-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/spahija-the-better-team-won\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:49:36","slug":"spahija-the-better-team-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/spahija-the-better-team-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Spahija: &#8220;The better team won&#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\/RenzDIjbf6o\" 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 Tel Aviv <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">are<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> now holding a 7:5 record in the EuroLeague standings after the 101-86 loss to CSKA, the yellows have to recover fast as they&#8217;re headed to a double round week facing Panathinaikos on Tuesday (Athens) and non-other than the reigning EuroLeague champs Fenerbache on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> \tCoach Spahija: &#8220;We&#8217;re still not in CSKA&#8217;s league but we&#8217;ll get there. The better team won, I said in the past that CSKA is in a league of its own. In the second half we stepped up, but the unsportsmanlike foul called against Cole killed the game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> \tCoach Spahija also referred to Cole&#8217;s great game: &#8220;He was one of our best tonight, we all showed sparks tonight but that&#8217;s not enough, we had a few players that did not<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">played<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> in this level&#8221;. On defense: &#8220;I don\u2019t have any problem that CSKA scored so many points, I have a problem with other teams scoring a lot against us. We need to believe in ourselves and one in another, I don&#8217;t blame my players and I believe in them&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv head coach summarize the loss to CSKA and remained optimistic: &#8220;We&#8217;re still not in CSKA&#8217;s league but we&#8217;ll get there&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":501112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-501114","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\/501114","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=501114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501116,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501114\/revisions\/501116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501114"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=501114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}