{"id":503400,"date":"2019-02-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/were-taking-it-a-game-at-a-time\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:41:21","slug":"were-taking-it-a-game-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/were-taking-it-a-game-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re taking it a game at a time\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\/8HMfCF7ADtU\" 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;\">It was a night of defensive dominance as Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv rolled past Darussafaka 77:58. The squad of coach Sfairopoulos delivered a message early on as they forced their opponents to contested shots time and again not allowing them to execute on offense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Maccabi are now with an 11:13 record in the EuroLeague standings and will now start to prepare for their hectic week with the first game being on Saturday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cI want to congratulate our players for the emphatic win\u201d, said Coach <strong>Giannis Sfairopoulos<\/strong>. \u201cWe controlled the game with our great defense, we allowed our opponents to score 23 points in the first half and a total of 58 in . I think that with our good defense from the beginning till the end we built up a point difference that gave us an easy win in the end\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cWe played well today\u201d, said <strong>DeAndre Kane<\/strong>. \u201cWe really came out aggressive on defense and it helped us get into the rhythm on offense, everybody contributed, guys had a great game, we also had a good week of practice and it all carried over to the game, it was a good win for us\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cWe established a good rhythm early\u201d, said <strong>John DiBartolomeo<\/strong> who also added: \u201cWe were able to keep it for most of the game and come out with the very important win. We\u2019re taking it a game at a time and although last week was a loss there were some good things in the game and we were able to take those and build on, against Milan we weren\u2019t as good defensively as were tonight and I think that played a key difference\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi\u2019s head coach Giannis Sfairopoulos after the home win versus Darussafaka: \u201cwe controlled the game with our great defense\u201d. John DiBartolomeo: \u201cIt was a good win for us\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-503400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503400","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=503400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503402,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503400\/revisions\/503402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503400"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=503400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}