{"id":505094,"date":"2020-02-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/happy-how-we-were-focused-and-how-we-approached-this-game\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:22:23","slug":"happy-how-we-were-focused-and-how-we-approached-this-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/happy-how-we-were-focused-and-how-we-approached-this-game\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Happy how we were focused and how we approached this game&#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\/yDIl84E-Oxw\" 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<p dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Forty-eight hours after the dramatic victory over Olympiacos and before the double EuroLeague clash, Maccabi Fox Tel Aviv preserved the lead on top of the Israeli league, beating Hapoel Gilboa\/Galil 99:76. Next week, The Israeli champions will head on the road to match up against Hapoel Jerusalem, not before they face Anadolu Efes at home and Red Star Belgrade in Serbia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;We had a good game offensively, one of our best in the Israeli league&#8221;, Said the satisfied head coach\u00a0<strong>Giannis Sfairopoulos<\/strong>\u00a0after the win. &#8220;We started very concentrated and had a double-digit lead after the first quarter. Whoever played tonight was great, I&#8217;m happy how we were focused and that we approached the game with seriousness. We are getting closer to the final stretch of the season, and it&#8217;s time to be in our best shape. Every single game for Maccabi Tel Aviv is crucial, that&#8217;s our approach, and that is how we get our winning mentality&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Jake Cohen<\/strong>\u00a0who finished the night as the MVP with 22 game added: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;I thought we had a great night, every win in the Israeli league is important as coach tells us. I got into a good rhythm defensively, and the offense came with it, I was really trying to focus on the defensive end&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yellow &#038; Blue summarized the win over Gilboa\/Galil. Sfairopoulos: &#8220;We are getting closer to the final stretch of the season, and it&#8217;s time to be in our best shape, Every game for Maccabi Tel Aviv is crucial&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":505091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-505094","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\/505094","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=505094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505097,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505094\/revisions\/505097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505094"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=505094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}