{"id":503611,"date":"2019-04-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/were-happy-tom-win-after-three-loses\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:46:25","slug":"were-happy-tom-win-after-three-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/were-happy-tom-win-after-three-loses\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;re happy tom win after three loses&#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\/graihod4Dcg\" 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 played versus Hapoel Eilat in the 26th round of the Israeli domestic league, wanting to get back to winning ways. The squad of coach Sfairopoulos <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">were<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> more focused in the first quarter, but they only managed to take the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">double digit<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> lead with Johnny and Scottie leading the way. The visitors tried to get back into the game but the Maccabi took care of business as they secured the 99:92 home win domestic standings. The squad of coach Sfairopoulos will now begin their preparations for their next Israeli league game on Sunday at <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Be&#8217;er<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> Sheva.<br \/> \t]<br \/> \t&#8220;It was a good game&#8221;, said coach Giannis Sfairopoulos. &#8220;After two loses in the league, we wanted to win this game. I believe that in the first half it was a very open game, we played good on offense. In the last five minutes of the first half we played good defense, but &#8211; we didn&#8217;t start the second half good. In\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">general<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> we controlled the game and we played versus a very good team. We fought to keep our advantage; I&#8217;m happy with the result, but we need to improve our game. It&#8217;s a good psychologically and we will continue to prepare for the third round, to finish it in a good way&#8221;.<br \/> \t]<br \/> \t&#8220;We made easy baskets on offense&#8221;, said the game MVP Tarik Black. &#8220;It made things easier for us in getting the win that we very much needed. The last quarter was good on a personal level, I brought the energies and did what we needed to do. We&#8217;re working well together and we&#8217;re happy to win after three loses&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi&#8217;s head coach Giannis Sfairopoulos after the home win over Hapoel Eilat: &#8220;We wanted to win this game&#8221;. Tarik Black: &#8220;We made easy baskets on offense&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":503609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-503611","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\/503611","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=503611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503613,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503611\/revisions\/503613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503611"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=503611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}