{"id":506350,"date":"2020-11-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/we-will-need-to-overcome-this-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:49:16","slug":"we-will-need-to-overcome-this-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/we-will-need-to-overcome-this-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We will need to overcome this loss&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv&#8217;s suffered a dramatic loss Friday night to Valencia 80:82 as part of the 10th EuroLeague fixture. The Yellow &amp; Blue drop to 3:7 on the European season after having trouble closing out the contest in the final two minutes of the game, letting the Spanish squad perform a late comeback and score the game-winning layup at the final buzzer. Scottie Wilbekin led the way with 25 points as Angelo Caloiaro contributed 15 points and 7 rebounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Maccabi&#8217;s head coach&nbsp;<strong>Giannis Sfairopoulos<\/strong>&nbsp;stated at the postgame press conference: &#8220;It was a really close game, the result could have gone to any side in the end. We played much better in the second half as defensively we fought really well as a team until we were up by 7 points. Unfortunately, we made some mistakes sending them easily to the free-throw line, bringing the game to a one-possession play, we looked to foul but couldn&#8217;t find who, and they scored the game-tying three. We had to play one or two good defensive possessions to close out the game, but unfortunately, it didn&#8217;t happen, and Valencia took advantage in the final minutes&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a tough loss, but we&#8217;ll continue. On one end, we showed a different character tonight, but we are sad about the outcome&#8221;, Added Sfairopoulos. &#8220;It&#8217;s tough, but we&#8217;ll need to overcome this, continue, learn from this and break this bad momentum losing at the end of games&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Angelo Caloiaro<\/strong>, who had a great overall performance, said after the game: &#8220;We battled harder today, there were moments our defense was really good, that&#8217;s the biggest part we need to improve on and be more solid for 40 minutes. It&#8217;s been several games this season we should have closed out at the end, but all of them haven&#8217;t gone our way. We need to figure that out, get back to work, and stay positive&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yellow &#038; Blue summarized the loss in Valencia. Sfairopoulos: &#8220;It&#8217;s a tough loss, but we&#8217;ll continue. We showed a different character tonight&#8221;. Caloiaro: &#8220;We need to figure it out, get back to work, and stay positive&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-506350","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\/506350","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=506350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506352,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506350\/revisions\/506352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506350"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=506350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}