{"id":506639,"date":"2021-01-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/it-was-a-great-team-performance\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:01:22","slug":"it-was-a-great-team-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/it-was-a-great-team-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was a great team performance&#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\/XW8nrAGhn0w\" 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;\">Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv closed the double EuroLeague clash on Thursday with an excellent home win over TD Systems Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz, 91:82. Giannis Sfairopoulos&#8217;s squad registered a balanced attacking game and a fine defensive effort improving their European record to 9:11. The Israeli champions came determined from the get-go, receiving points from all 12 players and excellent contribution from several players.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Yovel Zoosman finished the night with 11 points (3 threes), 3 assists, and a strong defensive showing. Othello Hunter added 14 points and 5 rebounds, Elijah Bryant 14 points, and 4 assists Angelo Caloiaro 12 points, 4 rebounds, and 2 steals. Now the Yellow &#038; Blue await for next week&#8217;s matchup as Real Madrid will come into Menora Mivtachim Arena to face Giannis Sfairopoulos&#8217;s squad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/mtpic\/2020-21\/games\/baskonia%2014-2\/zoos.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 14px; width: 980px; height: 581px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Head coach\u00a0<strong>Giannis Sfairopoulos<\/strong>\u00a0explained his thoughts about the win: &#8220;The team was determined to play tough, aggressive, and I&#8217;m very satisfied and happy how everyone responded after Tuesday&#8217;s loss. Tonight all of the players helped in this win no matter how many minutes they&#8217;ve played. We had great concentration, our defensive rebound was really good, and we improved in the second half. Generally, we also did a great job offensively, which kept us in control throughout the game&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;The talent of both teams came out tonight as it was a tough contest, Said\u00a0<strong>Yovel Zoosman<\/strong>, who scored a season-high 11 points. &#8220;In the end, we won through our defense. I don&#8217;t think we will score 91 points each game, we did allow more than we usually do, but in crunch time, we made the right decisions, which gave us the victory&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Elijah Bryant<\/strong>,\u00a0who&#8217;s maintaining another highly productive season, added about the keys for every single night: &#8220;We all came out and played with confidence, and a lot of guys scored. It was a great team performance. Defense wins games, it&#8217;s about energy, fighting spirit where on offense, some nights might not be your night, but you can always box out your man and stay locked in on defense&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/mtpic\/2020-21\/games\/baskonia%2014-2\/wilbekin.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 14px; width: 980px; height: 608px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yellow &#038; Blue summarized the home win, improving their EuroLeague record to 9:11 on the season. Zoosman: &#8220;In crunch time, we made the right decisions, which gave us the victory&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-506639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506639","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=506639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519228,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506639\/revisions\/519228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506639"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=506639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}