{"id":501492,"date":"2018-03-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/spahija-we-hit-a-wall\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:58:05","slug":"spahija-we-hit-a-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/spahija-we-hit-a-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Spahija: &#8220;&#8221;We hit a wall&#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\/LkHO4pzfuvY\" 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;\"> \tWithout Kane (suspended) and Pierre Jackson, Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv who are entering the most crucial phase of the season wanted to get back to winning ways just before they will travel to Istanbul to face Anadolu Efes on Thursday. John-Di scored 18, Cole added 17 for the yellows who are now holding a 14:4 record in the Israeli Winner League.<\/p>\n<p> \t&#8220;We hit a wall&#8221;, said coach Spahija after the 75:86 loss to Ness Ziona, &#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to understand the players&#8217; performance, it&#8217;s not one or two, sometimes they looked very confused but all of us including me as the leader of this program have the responsibility for the current situation, we have to find a way to go out of it, to work hard, not to blame anyone. We need to think positive, one thing I need to say is that all the games we lost this season were in our arena in front of our fans, I think that Maccabi has the best fans in Europe and their love for the club is amazing and it is very hard for me, I ask them to be patient and from our side we will do our best to come out of this situation and continue and play the basketball that we&#8217;ve played for most of the season&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> \t&#8220;People have short memories and right now we are not at best of shape&#8221; said John-Di, &#8220;We&#8217;re not playing good basketball and we&#8217;re coming off three loses, we have to look forward and if we comeback from Turkey with a win then things will look a lot better. (the last games) tough games and tough loses, we&#8217;re not happy with how we are playing lately but at the end of the day you can use it as fuel, other than that it won&#8217;t do us any good to look back&#8221;. John also addressed whether the reason for the performance against Ness Ziona was mental: &#8220;it could be a combo of things, sometimes the ball doesn&#8217;t bounce your way but that&#8217;s no excuse, me and the other guys have to play better and to take care of the ball, a lot of the times these turnovers are making us look a worse defensive team than we actually are, we shoot ourselves in the foot sometimes&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi&#8217;s coach after the 75:86 loss to Ness Ziona: &#8220;we will do our best to come out of this situation&#8221;. John-Di: &#8220;If we comeback from Turkey with a win then things will look a lot better&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-501492","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\/501492","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=501492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501495,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501492\/revisions\/501495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501492"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=501492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}