{"id":504783,"date":"2019-12-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/we-paid-for-playing-with-a-small-rotation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:15:21","slug":"we-paid-for-playing-with-a-small-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/we-paid-for-playing-with-a-small-rotation\/","title":{"rendered":"“We paid for playing with a small rotation”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\tMaccabi Fox Tel Aviv suffered a 77:99 defeat to Anadolu Efes, as part of the 16th EuroLeague fixture. The Yellow & Blue were tight to the Turkish squad in the first half, however, a host 22:2 run in the third quarter sealed the game. Jake Cohen filled in Tarik Black’sBlack’s shoes scoring 15 points, while Wilbekin added 12 points in 17 minutes. Next Thursday, Maccabi will head out to Kaunas to face Sarunas Jasikevicius squad.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t“Efes played much better, and they deserved to win, especially with the way they played in the second half”, admitted head coach Giannis Sfairopoulos<\/strong>. “We started the game well, unfortunately in the second quarter we turned the ball over six times, we gave up ten fastbreak points, and that hurt us. For me, the most important part of the game was the third quarter, we allowed 32 points, and we had two fouls to give, we weren’t defending tough”. <\/span><\/p>\n

\t“Efes has a lot of quality if you don’t play tough on them, let them feel comfortable, it’s very difficult to stop them. We need to learn to be much tougher, especially against the finalist from last year”.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t“We will be in the market, we can’t continue only with Otello Hunter in the center position. We have been using the players a lot, being overused, and they are fatigued. We have to find solutions because we are starting to pay for playing with such a small rotation for so many games. About Jackson, I expect his quality, experience, and he is a player that for sure will help us”.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t“I think we came hard to fight, they hit a lot of tough shots, but we have to come out and play better on defense”, Said Elijah Bryant<\/strong> after the game. “It starts with the first guys on the floor, including myself, but it’s one game, it’s a long season, and as coach said, it’s a marathon. Even during times when it’s a large margin, it’s still time to learn, build, and get guys minutes who don’t play all the time”.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Yellow & Blue summarized the loss to Anadolu Efes. Sfairopoulos: “We need to learn to be much tougher, especially against the finalist from last year” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":504780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-504783","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\/504783","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=504783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504786,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504783\/revisions\/504786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504783"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=504783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}