{"id":507146,"date":"2021-04-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/it-wasnt-our-year-in-the-euroleague\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T12:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:02:43","slug":"it-wasnt-our-year-in-the-euroleague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/it-wasnt-our-year-in-the-euroleague\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t our year in the Euroleague&#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\/Sed1MBWy-lk\" 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 hoped to conclude the EuroLeague season on a better note, but Giannis Sfairopoulos&#8217;s squad suffered a 69:86 road defeat to Zenit St Petersburg in a game that didn&#8217;t go as planned, finishing the European campaign in 13th place with 14 wins and 20 losses. On Monday, the Yellow &amp; Blue return to the Israeli Winner League facing Hapoel Jerusalem in the capital.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Angelo Caloiaro didn&#8217;t make the trip to Russia following his newborn girl&#8217;s birth, as Othello Hunter returned to action for the first time since March 18th, playing 19 minutes contributing 3 points and 4 rebounds. Tyler Dorsey scored 15 points, Chris Jones added 11 points, while Scottie Wilbekin provided 9 points and 4 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p> \t<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t start well as Zenit gained a double-digit difference at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, we did a better job on both ends of the court, and at halftime, we said we need to improve our game&#8221;, Summarized Maccabi&#8217;s head coach&nbsp;<strong>Giannis Sfairopoulos<\/strong>. &#8220;The game&#8217;s critical point came in the third period scoring only 11 points while turning the ball 8 times, which led to easy points on the other end. From that point, it was really difficult to stop them. It wasn&#8217;t a good season for us, we need to better and wiser next season&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Maccabi&#8217;s top scorer&nbsp;<strong>Tyler Dorsey&nbsp;<\/strong>expressed his thoughts after the final EuroLeague game: &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t pull it together. They are a good team, and all game long, we couldn&#8217;t get defensive stops. We got to keep moving, getting ready for the Israeli League and State Cup Finals. It wasn&#8217;t our year in the Euroleague&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli champions summarized Friday&#8217;s loss and the European campaign. Sfairopoulos: &#8220;Next year, we will need to better and wiser&#8221;. Dorsey: &#8220;We got to keep moving, getting ready for the Israeli League and State Cup Finals&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":507144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-507146","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\/507146","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=507146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507148,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507146\/revisions\/507148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507146"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=507146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}