{"id":13105,"date":"2019-02-28T08:31:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T08:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportsrabbi.agpwebdesign.com\/?p=13105"},"modified":"2019-02-28T08:31:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T08:31:46","slug":"sfairopoulos-on-deni-avdija-he-needs-to-be-humble-work-hard-and-has-a-big-future-in-front-of-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/sfairopoulos-on-deni-avdija-he-needs-to-be-humble-work-hard-and-has-a-big-future-in-front-of-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Sfairopoulos on Deni Avdija: \u201cHe needs to be humble, work hard and has a big future in front of him\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Tel Aviv Head Coach <strong>Ioannis Sfairopoulos<\/strong> looked ahead to this evening\u2019s Euroleague clash against Darussafaka. The Istanbul based team is in last place but that doesn\u2019t mean they aren\u2019t dangerous and should be taken lightly:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a very important and difficult game. They are a team that has nothing to lose and is playing without pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coach also spoke about last week\u2019s clash at Milano in which he has stated that the Italian club was the favorites, \u201cThey have a bigger budget than us, with players who have more Euroleague experience and are a more experienced team than us. We had a big disadvantage with our record. We only beat Olympiacos by one point, if we lose we get criticized, we have to look outside of the box. We are a fighting team with a fighting mentality and we have had some good games and good results. But we aren\u2019t yet one of the best teams, however, we are the favorites tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Maccabi maestro also discussed building an Israeli base especially after loaning out Kendrick Ray and phenom Deni Avdija returning to the fold, \u201cWe want to build an Israeli base and I want to give them a chance to play and in general he will have more minutes. I let him play for the first time against Fener and he scored his first basket. He needs to work hard and he\u2019s a hard worker. If he continues to work like this he will get his chances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coach continued, \u201cWe missed him 20-25 days out of the team and he practiced for the first time with the team. Now he has to adjust to us. He was with different teams and now it\u2019s the time to bring him back to reality because Maccabi is reality for him. His best improvement is through his club but because he\u2019s really good it\u2019s very positive that he is with the National team and shows he has potential. He needs to be humble, work hard and has a big future in front of him. Sometimes we need to protect him for the things around him and do the best for his future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Tel Aviv Head Coach Ioannis Sfairopoulos looked ahead to this evening\u2019s Euroleague clash against Darussafaka. The Istanbul based team is in last place but that doesn\u2019t mean they aren\u2019t dangerous and should be taken lightly: \u201cWe have a very important and difficult game. They are a team that has nothing to lose and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":12710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[37,10,4],"class_list":["post-13105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-competitions-holy-land-hoops","category-holy-land-hoops","tag-deni-avdija","tag-ioannis-sfairopoulos","tag-maccabi-tel-aviv","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sfairopoulos on Deni Avdija: \u201cHe needs to be humble, work hard and has a big future in front of him\u201d - Sports Rabbi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/sfairopoulos-on-deni-avdija-he-needs-to-be-humble-work-hard-and-has-a-big-future-in-front-of-him\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sfairopoulos on Deni Avdija: \u201cHe needs to be humble, work hard and has a big future in front of him\u201d - Sports Rabbi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Maccabi Tel Aviv Head Coach Ioannis Sfairopoulos looked ahead to this evening\u2019s Euroleague clash against Darussafaka. 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