{"id":501390,"date":"2018-02-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/spahija-when-we-play-some-defense-our-life-is-easier\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:55:54","slug":"spahija-when-we-play-some-defense-our-life-is-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/spahija-when-we-play-some-defense-our-life-is-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Spahija: &#8220;When we play some defense our life is easier&#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\/ZPezXCMjlmw\" 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;\">\n<div> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv made an important step in their playoff quest as they improved their record in the EuroLeague standings to 12:10 after they got the 94:82 win over Barcelona, the good news came from Athens as Panathinaikos beat Baskonia giving the yellows a two games advantage over the Basques with eight games remaining till the end of the regular season. Jackson scored 18P, Cole added 16P, 6A and 5R.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Coach <strong>Neven Spahija<\/strong>: &#8220;We led at halftime, but they had 10 offensive rebounds and created a lot of problems for us with second-chance points and I think 3 or 4 threes after offensive rebounds. And the entire second half they had only 1. When we play some defense, our life is easier because our talent is unquestionable and we always find a way to score. Lately Jake is playing very good basketball and we knew that he was going to play important minutes tonight&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Michael Roll<\/strong>: &#8220;Huge win for us, felt great to get it home, it was fun. We were locked in right from the start, we stuck with it, at the beginning we didn\u2019t make shots, me personally as well, but we stuck with it and started knocking shots down and I think we played good defense\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Norris Cole<\/strong>: &#8220;This game was important and that\u2019s my job, as the leader, to always make sure I bring that boost. And we needed it tonight. I\u2019m glad we were able to play together and come out with the win. I\u2019m a pro, I\u2019m ready to play. We needed this game. It was important to hold home court, it was important to hold our spot for the playoffs and that\u2019s enough motivation. Our team brought it tonight&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi&#8217;s coach after the 94:82 lead against Barcelona: &#8220;Our talent is unquestionable&#8221;. Roll: &#8220;we played good defense&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-501390","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\/501390","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=501390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501393,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501390\/revisions\/501393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501390"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=501390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}