{"id":501541,"date":"2018-03-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/spahija-we-fought-and-we-didnt-give-up\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:59:11","slug":"spahija-we-fought-and-we-didnt-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/spahija-we-fought-and-we-didnt-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Spahija: &#8220;We fought and we didn&#8217;t give up&#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\/YTEYcu9BsAU\" 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;\"> \tAfter the win against Efes on Thursday, Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv continued its positive momentum against Hapoel Jerusalem in the 19th round of the Israeli league. The visitors held a 12 points advantage over Maccabi however a heroic comeback led by Cole and Thomas in the fourth quarter gave the yellows the El-Classico 77:74 win just before the game against Khimki Moscow region on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> \t&#8220;We fought and we didn&#8217;t give up&#8221; said <strong>coach Spahija<\/strong>, &#8220;finally in the fourth quarter we found the five guys that can defend. I told the players in the locker rooms at halftime that we don&#8217;t have enough energy. Pierre Jackson played sick today. We need to rest because we are really tired. We don&#8217;t have energies, we played 50 games so far and the other teams in the league played 20 and that&#8217;s all the difference&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> \t&#8220;As the team&#8217;s leader I had to find ways to help the team and it was with shooting&#8221; said <strong>Norris Cole <\/strong>who finished the game with MVP honors, &#8220;we played good on defense in the fourth quarter. We need to keep playing defense and to make shots on offense, when we make shots we can win any team&#8221;.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi&#8217;s coach after the 77:74 win over Hapoel Jerusalem: &#8220;I told the players in the locker rooms at halftime that we don&#8217;t have enough energy&#8221;. Cole: &#8220;&#8221;As the team&#8217;s leader I had to find ways to help the team&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":501538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-501541","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\/501541","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=501541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501544,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501541\/revisions\/501544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501541"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=501541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}