{"id":502612,"date":"2018-10-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/spahija-we-realize-were-not-a-100\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:22:36","slug":"spahija-we-realize-were-not-a-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/spahija-we-realize-were-not-a-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Spahija: &#8220;We realize we&#8217;re not a 100%&#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\/LJnVuY9dyUk\" 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;\">Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv started off their busy week on a positive note as they got the 70:83 win over Eilat on the road. The yellows opened the game better with Tarik being dominant on both ends of the court, after a 45 minute break (due to bad playing conditions) Eilat came back more focused and got the lead but the yellows tied the game at halftime. In the second half Maccabi&#8217;s dominance was just too much as they remain unbeaten domestically. Spahija&#8217;s squad will face CSKA on Tuesday 21:05 local.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \t&#8220;I think that 10 minutes of good defense in the second half were enough to win this game&#8221;, said Coach Spahija after the 70:83 victory over Eilat. &#8220;We realize we&#8217;re not a 100% but that is the way and at the beginning I think that every day is a possibility and every game is a possibility to learn something new and to go forward. We start our preparation for CSKA tomorrow (i.e. Sunday) and hope that everyone is going to be healthy because we have a short rotation right now especially in the point guard position&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> \t&#8220;It was the delay that kind of made us restart&#8221;, said Johnny O&#8217;Bryant who finished as the top scorer with 16P and 4R. &#8220;Eilat came out firing, I think for us we needed to execute and we are a talented team and our talent definitely stepped up for us&#8221;. Johnny also addressed the Tuesday game versus CSKA: &#8220;It&#8217;s my first time playing an opponent that tough and they say they are a well-oiled machine so I&#8217;m excited to play against a tough matchup and try and get this win&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi&#8217;s head coach Neven Spahija after the 70:83 win over Eilat: &#8220;Every day is a possibility and every game is a possibility to learn something new and to go forward&#8221;. Johnny O&#8217;Bryant: &#8220;It was the delay that kind of made us restart&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-502612","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\/502612","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=502612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502614,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502612\/revisions\/502614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502612"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=502612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}