{"id":504844,"date":"2020-01-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/the-players-deserve-all-the-credit-deni-has-a-bright-future\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:16:50","slug":"the-players-deserve-all-the-credit-deni-has-a-bright-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/the-players-deserve-all-the-credit-deni-has-a-bright-future\/","title":{"rendered":"“The players deserve all the credit, Deni has a bright future”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\tMaccabi Fox Tel Aviv beat Hapoel Holon on the road 94:83, improving their record to 14:0 in the Israeli league. Deni Avdija had his best showing of the season scoring a career-high 22 points, dishing 5 assists and adding 2 blocks. Tyler Dorsey added 17 points, and Othello Hunter missed out on a double finishing the night with 14 points and 9 rebounds. The Yellow & Blue focus moves towards the EuroLeague as they’ll host Barcelona on Tuesday and Milano on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t“It wasn’t easy to get ready in 48 hours to this tough game after the ALBA Berlin contest”, Said head coach Giannis Sfairopoulos<\/strong> after the win. “I want to congratulate the players, they deserve all the credit because they had a really good game. I believe we can play better in the small details on both sides of the court, that’s what I want to see from them in the next game. We controlled the game from the first quarter, and for most of the minutes, we had a double-digit advantage. Holon is a very good team, especially here at their home court, they can score easy baskets, and they didn’t give up. In the end, we had a clear idea of how to attack them that gave us the win”.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t“Deni is a talented player, he has a bright future ahead of him. He needs to stay humble, with his feet under him. Obviously, he is improving, the whole club helps him and more players to develop and produce young players. From the first moment I got here, I said that I believe in the Israeli players and that we want to make our Israeli core bigger”.<\/span><\/p>\n

\tTowards the tough week in front of the team: “We are thinking only about Barcelona, we have the game against Milano in our back of our head, but for now we are concentrating only on Barcelona”.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t“I’m young, and things don’t come easily”, Said Deni Avdija<\/strong> after his incredible performance. “I never took my head down even when there were games I didn’t take part in. Today it clicked, and I had a good game, but it was only a single one. I play with a lot of emotion, and it came out tonight because it was the first game I played fully confident in myself. To be a winner is to come out every single day and to get better, and no matter who you play, give your 100% and stay humble”.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Yellow & Blue summarized the win in Holon, as they couldn’t resist the young forwards performance. Avdija: ” Today it all clicked, I was fully confident in myself, the guys did a great job”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":504842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-504844","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\/504844","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=504844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504847,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504844\/revisions\/504847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504844"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=504844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}