{"id":502585,"date":"2018-10-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/spahija-this-game-did-not-help-us\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:22:15","slug":"spahija-this-game-did-not-help-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/spahija-this-game-did-not-help-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Spahija: &#8220;This game did not help us&#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\/YyODTfuDyf4\" 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;\">Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv officially started its 2018\/19 season against Ashdod at the Menorah. Neven Spahija&#8217;s squad took the double digit lead at halftime and never looked back as they took the 103:59 win over Ashdod.\u00a0 The yellows will now focus on their next game against Panathinaikos on Thursday (Sport5, 21:00 local).<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;I think that this game did not help us&#8221;, said coach <strong>Spahija<\/strong>. &#8220;They played for three quarters and gave up when we were up by 20, they were missing a lot of players. I apologize to coach Greenberg. In the last few days we tried to do things in practice that will help us&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;Ashdod were missing a lot of players&#8221;, said <strong>Yovel Zoosman<\/strong>, who finished the game with 14P, 3S and 2A. &#8220;We wanted to focus on ourselves, we didn&#8217;t play good in the first half but we got better in the second and kept it going until the end. I want to prove to everyone but mostly to myself that I can play in these levels, I come to practices an hour before and stay after everyone \u2013 that&#8217;s the only way to succeed&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;We knew that Ashdod will be aggressive&#8221;, said <strong>John DiBartolomeo<\/strong>, who finished the game with 18 points. &#8220;We got to give them credit for the fight they have put in. we knew that they were missing players. We had a tough preseason and this game was a good preparation for our next game&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Spahija after the 103:59 victory over Ashdod: &#8220;In the last few days we tried to do things in practice that will help us&#8221;. Zoosman: &#8220;We didn&#8217;t play good in the first half but we got better in the second and kept it going until the end&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-502585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel-league"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502585","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=502585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502588,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502585\/revisions\/502588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502585"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=502585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}