{"id":10044,"date":"2018-03-21T20:31:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportsrabbi.agpwebdesign.com\/?p=10044"},"modified":"2018-03-21T20:31:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:31:34","slug":"maccabi-tel-aviv-vs-panathinaikos-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/maccabi-tel-aviv-vs-panathinaikos-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi Tel Aviv vs Panathinaikos Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Tel Aviv faces Panathinaikos in what is in essence a do or die Euroleague game as the Yellow &#038; Blue sit one game under .500 at 13-14. With three games remaining, Maccabi is in 9th place and will need to stay within reach of Baskonia who won their Gameday 27 contest over Bamberg and are now 14-13 with a date at home with Neven Spahija\u2019s squad next Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p>One of Panathinaikos\u2019s top players is Nick Calathes who has proven to be unstoppable all season long with a 14.1 points per game average, 8.3 assists and 4 rebounds to arguably be the competition\u2019s MVP. <\/p>\n<p>Head Coach Neven Spahija spike about the Greek star:<br \/>\n\u201cWe had so many good players to play against this season and we were able to stop them. I don\u2019t of we are going to do that with him to, but we will do our he\u2019s to do that. Yesterday we saw that big teams have deep rosters and you never know who is going to show up like Marko Guduric who scored 5\/6 from 3.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jin DiBartolomeo also chimed in about Calathes:<br \/>\n\u201cHe\u2019s one of the top players in the Euroleague and he\u2019s in great shape right now and he played well last game. He\u2019s obviously a big focus and big task.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Tel Aviv faces Panathinaikos in what is in essence a do or die Euroleague game as the Yellow &#038; Blue sit one game under .500 at 13-14. 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