{"id":501880,"date":"2018-05-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/spahija-its-an-important-win\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:05:48","slug":"spahija-its-an-important-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/spahija-its-an-important-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Spahija: &#8220;It&#8217;s an important win&#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\/VBwIezrcHLk\" 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;\">With the domestic league entering its final straight, the yellows want to finish the regular season phase on a high note. The game started with the locals managing to impose their will and tempo as they took the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">double digit<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> lead at the end of the first half, but Pargo took care of business in the third quarter completing the comeback, Rishon made another run at a comeback of their own however Bolden and Cole made sure that Maccabi will secure the 84:73 win.<\/p>\n<p> \t&#8220;It&#8217;s an important win, I don&#8217;t like to play in a short rotation but sometimes you just have\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">too<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8221; said coach Spahija after the win over Rishon, &#8220;Rishon is an excellent team with good players that <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">is<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> well coached. In the second <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">half<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> we pressed Langford and it looked different than what it was in the first half&#8221; Coach added on Jonah&#8217;s performance: &#8220;First of all I&#8217;m happy for the team, he did a good job on defense, but the team comes first&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> \t&#8220;I got a lot of good passes from my teammates and was capable to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">score<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8221; said Jake Cohen who finished the game with MVP honors, &#8220;It was a good game and we played well. There&#8217;s no tension within the locker room we&#8217;re all in this together, we&#8217;re committed and trying to win. We have the will and the desire to win every game in order to secure the home court advantage&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi&#8217;s coach on Jonah&#8217;s performance: &#8220;He did a good job on defense&#8221;. Cohen: &#8220;We have the will and the desire to win every game in order to secure the home court advantage&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":501879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-501880","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\/501880","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=501880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501882,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501880\/revisions\/501882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501880"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=501880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}