{"id":502801,"date":"2018-11-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/it-was-one-of-the-most-important-games-for-us\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:25:48","slug":"it-was-one-of-the-most-important-games-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/it-was-one-of-the-most-important-games-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was one of the most important games for us&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"direction: ltr;\">\n<div> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Coach Neven Spahija&#8217;s squad wanted to get back into winning ways against Gran Canaria but ended up falling short as they couldn&#8217;t impose their will against the local team throughout the game. Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv are now with a 1:6 record and will start their preparations for their second double round week in the EuroLeague against Anadolu Efes on the road (Tuesday) and versus Fenerbahce at the Menora on Thursday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;I got to give credit to Gran Canaria for their great win&#8221;, said Coach <strong>Neven Spahija<\/strong>. &#8220;Unfortunately we didn&#8217;t play the right basketball, tonight so many problems defensively and offensively, we didn&rsquo;t find yet the right chemistry but this is the life, it was one of the most important games for us because of our start, tough schedule a lot of injuries, we lost many games and now we hope on this trip that maybe we can recover. The first game is away, we have one more, we lost and definitely Maccabi with this roster needs to play better basketball on both ends of the court&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> \t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;I think overall we played a good game&#8221;, said <strong>DeAndre Kane<\/strong>. &#8220;We missed a lot of shots a lot of open shots. I think we got outrebounded and that was a big part of the game giving up a lot of rebounds. As always we&#8217;re positive, but right now we&#8217;re 1:6 so it&#8217;s tough to take a lot of positive from the game&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;It was a tough game&#8221;, said <strong>Alex Tyus<\/strong>. &#8220;I think it was the energy, some execution, we turned the ball a little too much, we gotta be a little better on defense and keep moving forward&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi&#8217;s head coach Neven Spahija after the 84:78 loss on the road: &#8220;Maccabi with this roster needs to play better basketball on both ends of the court&#8221;. Alex Tyus: &#8220;We gotta be a little better on defense and keep moving forward&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-502801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502801","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=502801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502803,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502801\/revisions\/502803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502801"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=502801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}