{"id":506737,"date":"2021-01-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/we-lacked-energy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:56:30","slug":"we-lacked-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/we-lacked-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We lacked energy&#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\/Vyrn2EEdjBI\" 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&#8217;s return to the domestic league didn&#8217;t go as planned, experiencing a 70:79 defeat to Hapoel Gilboa\/Galil in Menora Mivtachim Arena, marking their second loss this season in the Israeli league. Ante Zizic&#8217;s 23 points and 9 rebounds weren&#8217;t quite enough, as the Yellow &amp; Blue don&#8217;t have much time to grieve as their next assignment comes on Sunday against Hapoel Tel Aviv in Shlomo Group Arena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;I want to congratulate Gilboa\/Galil on their win and the way they played today. They showed how much they wanted to beat us from the first moment, and we weren&#8217;t ready to play a tough game, although we knew they are a formidable team&#8221;, Said head coach&nbsp;<strong>Giannis Sfairopoulos<\/strong>&nbsp;after the loss. &#8220;We weren&#8217;t good offensively throughout the whole game shooting only 17% from outside as most of them were open, which means we weren&#8217;t ready mentally to execute better&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> \t<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t read the game well and didn&#8217;t play together, which is why we played like that. This is a good lesson for us, we need to learn from it how to be prepared and how to play these types of games&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Oz Blayzer<\/strong>&nbsp;explained what didn&#8217;t work well today: &#8220;We lacked energy, defensively we were alright, we could have played better and offensively, we were always short, half a step too late. On the other end, they played with high intensity, energy while we didn&#8217;t complete our tasks. We need to learn from this game, put it behind us because we have a derby match on Sunday and understand that we can lose to anyone if we don&#8217;t come with the right energy against any team&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli champions summarized the defeat to the northern squad in the domestic league. Sfairopoulos: &#8220;This is a good lesson for us, we need to learn how to play these types of games&#8221;. Blayzer: &#8220;We were always short, half a step too late&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-506737","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\/506737","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=506737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506739,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506737\/revisions\/506739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506737"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=506737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}