{"id":501138,"date":"2017-12-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/spahija-every-time-we-got-closer-weve-made-stupid-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:50:09","slug":"spahija-every-time-we-got-closer-weve-made-stupid-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/spahija-every-time-we-got-closer-weve-made-stupid-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Spahija: &#8220;Every time we got closer we&#8217;ve made stupid mistakes&#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\/99juCQxwCrI\" 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;\">Two days before the game versus the reigning EuroLeague champs Maccabi lost its second consecutive game (89:76) to Panathinaikos. &#8220;Pao played a <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">high level<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> basketball for 40 <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">minutes<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8221; said coach Spahija who also added: &#8220;Every time we got closer we&#8217;ve made stupid mistakes, especially in the third. In this <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">level<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> you have to bring something different, but we make so many mistakes and our rivals punish us. We&#8217;ll get back to Tel Aviv and we will work hard in order to maintain the level we presented&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \tDeShaun Thomas added: &#8220;It was a tough crowd, there are a lot of details we need to work on. It&#8217;s our responsibility to learn from all of our mistakes. It&#8217;s very important for us to bounce back and to keep our home safe on Thursday, despite the fact Fenerbache are the reigning champs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> \t&#8220;We fought but we didn\u2019t play smart like we should have had against such a good team. We&#8217;ve turned the ball over in critical moments&#8221;, said DeAndre Kane, &#8220;we have to give the credit to Panathinaikos, they are a great home team, but I feel like we had a chance to win this game. We&#8217;ve missed a lot of shots and lay-ups in critical moments, we allowed them to control the boards which\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">is<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> the opposite than who we are and you can&#8217;t make mistakes like this against such a team&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> \t&#8220;It was a tough game with a lot of mistakes by us, on away games you can&#8217;t make such mistakes and help the home team like we\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">did<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8221; said Norris Cole who finished the game with 14 points. &#8220;We need to focus on ourselves to fix our mistakes and to give ourselves to a chance to win such games&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Spahija summarized the loss to Panathinaikos: &#8220;We&#8217;ll get back to Tel Aviv and we will work hard in order to maintain the level we presented&#8221;. Thomas: &#8220;There are a lot of details we need to work on. It&#8217;s our responsibility to learn from all of our mistakes&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":501136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-501138","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\/501138","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=501138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501140,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501138\/revisions\/501140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501138"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=501138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}