{"id":501377,"date":"2018-02-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/goodes-we-got-the-job-done\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:55:34","slug":"goodes-we-got-the-job-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/goodes-we-got-the-job-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodes: &#8220;We got the job done&#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\/jRjJPUZ1fKU\" 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;\">After the loss to Zalgiris in the EuroLeague and without Coach Spahija who was unable to attend the game (flu) the yellows wished to start a winning momentum at home towards a decisive week, Cohen finished the game with his second MVP <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">honors<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> in a row with 19 points and 9 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p> \tCoach <strong>Goodes<\/strong>: &#8220;It was a good game, we won and that&#8217;s the most important thing in such a long season, we got the job done but still there are things we need to improve. We allowed 26 points in the fourth quarter, we shouldn&#8217;t have allowed that. It\u2019s just the beginning of the road as we&#8217;ve started working on fixing our <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">defense<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> and I&#8217;m happy that the players were more committed on <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">defense<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">. What happened in tonight&#8217;s game has nothing to do with the game on Thursday versus Barcelona, we&#8217;ll prepare for this game and adjust. There were moments in which we showed commitment and did good things but then we fell <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">to<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> old habits, we&#8217;re still a brand new team, and we hope to improve more down the road&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>Jake Cohen<\/strong>: &#8220;We only had a few days to prepare for this game, but we played great <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">defense<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> especially in the second half and that is what helped us get the win. I&#8217;m happy I&#8217;ve reached the 1,000th point milestone and that both the team and I reached our goals. We needed the confidence in front of our fans, and we will have to continue and built our confidence one step at a time&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Goodes after the 85:74 home win against Rishon: &#8220;I&#8217;m happy that the players were more committed on defense. Cohen: &#8220;We played great defense&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":501376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-501377","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\/501377","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=501377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501379,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501377\/revisions\/501379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501377"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=501377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}