{"id":502482,"date":"2018-09-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/were-going-to-take-as-much-as-possible-from-this-tournament\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:19:56","slug":"were-going-to-take-as-much-as-possible-from-this-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/were-going-to-take-as-much-as-possible-from-this-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re going to take as much as possible from this tournament\u201d"},"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\/PbQP8D9Eo28\" 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;\">And so it begins, a new season, feeling of joy and excitement but above all a first chance to partially see the 2018-19 model of Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Just before the team took off to Cyprus we had the chance to talk with coach Neven Spahija and Johnny O\u2019Bryant just before the preseason starts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cThere\u2019s no special feeling, the group is working hard, I think we did a good job the last two weeks, unfortunately we don\u2019t have all the players in the roster but it is what it is and we\u2019re going to try to take as much as possible from this tournament and this group of players\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Coach Spahija also addressed keeping the core: \u201cKeeping the core is always helping definitely, this year we didn\u2019t change 12 players and at least we know what we can count on , for the fans and everybody the clear message is they are going to see the real Maccabi from Zadar tournament and maybe Winner Cup is going to be the right time to see Maccabi this year\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Johnny O&#8217;bryant who started practicing with the team a week ago said: \u201cIt\u2019s been good,we got a lot of good players, great coach and I\u2019m excited to get out here and start playing some games with these guys\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The forward also talked about the preseason tournament in Cyprus: \u201cI think overall just to get our game legs under us, we\u2019re still missing a lot of guys but overall just kinda get team chemistry and get ourselves going a little bit\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Spahija before taking off to Cyprus: \u201cI think we did a good job in the last two weeks\u201d. O\u2019bryant: \u201dI\u2019m excited to get out here and start playing\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-502482","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\/502482","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=502482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502485,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502482\/revisions\/502485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502482"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=502482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}