{"id":501435,"date":"2018-02-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/spahija-it-was-important-to-win-before-malaga\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:56:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:56:43","slug":"spahija-it-was-important-to-win-before-malaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/spahija-it-was-important-to-win-before-malaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Spahija: &#8220;It was important to win before Malaga&#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\/9Nv4lcrivEo\" 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 wanted to travel to Malaga in high spirits and that they&#8217;ll do after they got the 92:86 victory over Ashdod at the Menorah Mivtachim arena. The yellows enjoyed a great shooting night by <strong>DeShaun Thomas<\/strong> who finished the game with 20 points. DeShaun missed the first game versus Malaga.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Thomas said after the game: &#8220;my teammates found me and I felt great. It&#8217;s a big win and we needed that. In basketball there are ups and downs, but we are the number one seed in the league and we need to remain there&#8221;. DeShaun added about the yellows upcoming game against Malaga in the EuroLeague: &#8220;we&#8217;re trying to qualify for the playoffs and we hope to have a good game&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>John-Di<\/strong> added: &#8220;it&#8217;s not a secret that it hurts to lose in the cup finals, we have a lot of experienced players and it&#8217;s a long season. It won&#8217;t hurt us during the remaining of the season. Of course there&#8217;s a difference between a league game and a knock-out game, but we are professionals and the best medicine after a loss is to win. I&#8217;m doing my best, , I didn&#8217;t know what to expect when I made the move from a team that focuses only on the domestic league to a team that competes in various competitions, I&#8217;m just trying to do things in the best possible way&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi&#8217;s coach summarized the win against Ashdod: &#8220;it was a tough game after the cup finals and we didn&#8217;t have enough energy to present a high quality basketball. The most important thing is that we won, and it&#8217;s an important win&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":501431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-501435","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\/501435","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=501435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501439,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501435\/revisions\/501439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501435"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=501435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}