{"id":505725,"date":"2020-07-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/we-will-fight-hard-for-the-title\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:35:58","slug":"we-will-fight-hard-for-the-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/we-will-fight-hard-for-the-title\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We will fight hard for the title&#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\/TcgO5KpLJmA\" 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<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv advance to the Final Four Final after Scottie Wilbekin hit a clutch triple with 2.7 seconds on the game clock for an 81:78 triumph over Hapoel Gilboa\/Galil in the Semi-Final. The Yellow &#038; Blue will match up on Tuesday at 21:00 against Maccabi Rishon Le&#8217; Zion, who clinched their spot in the finals after a dramatic 100:97 win over Hapoel Jerusalem thanks to an Adam Ariel game-winning three-pointer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">&#8220;I want to congratulate our players, we deserve to win after we were in control for most of the game. Our opponents had their chance to win, they had a good comeback in the last period, but most important is our win&#8221;, Said head coach\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Giannis Sfairopoulos\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">after the win. &#8220;Now we focus on the final, this is the moment we&#8217;ve been playing for all season, and we will be ready&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">&#8220;Final is a final, and it doesn&#8217;t matter if you play good or bad, you need to win the game&#8221;, Added Sfairopoulos on how to avoid tiredness. &#8220;If you are tired or not, you need to win the game, so we will fight hard for the title and play against a good team. It will be an exciting game&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">&#8220;The playoffs games are made of runs, there will be ups and downs, but the team that stays composed and under control is going to win&#8221;, Said\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Amar&#8217;e Stoudemire<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u00a0after clinching to the Final Four Final. &#8220;We got composure, and Scottie made a big three for us. Every team has his closer, and Scottie tonight was that guy for us. We played a great team game, but Scottie came to force again&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">&#8220;The idea is finishing the season with a victory&#8221;, Told Stoudemire about the intentions. &#8220;Anytime you go into a season, the goal is to win a championship, so now we are almost there, we have one more game. We need to reship our focus and be ready for a championship game&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sfairopoulos looks ahead to the Final between Maccabi and Rishon Le&#8217; Zion: &#8220;Now we focus on the final, this is the moment we&#8217;ve been playing for all season, and we will be ready&#8221;. Stoudemire: &#8220;Anytime you go into a season, the goal is to win a championship&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":505721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-505725","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\/505725","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=505725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505729,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505725\/revisions\/505729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505725"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=505725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}