{"id":483975,"date":"2026-02-16T08:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=483975"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:38:05","slug":"itoudis-after-hapoel-ends-six-loss-skid-im-not-a-magician-to-know-if-the-momentum-will-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/itoudis-after-hapoel-ends-six-loss-skid-im-not-a-magician-to-know-if-the-momentum-will-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Itoudis after Hapoel ends six-loss skid: \u201cI\u2019m not a magician to know if the momentum will change\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1314\" data-end=\"1610\">Hapoel Tel Aviv snapped a <strong data-start=\"1340\" data-end=\"1366\">six-game losing streak<\/strong> and, after the matchup against Maccabi Ra\u2019anana, Dimitris Itoudis focused on his team\u2019s recent form and response. \u201cI want to congratulate my team. We played seriously, moved the ball the right way and defended well in the first half,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1612\" data-end=\"1780\">Itoudis highlighted the second-half defense in particular: \u201cThe fact we held them to <strong data-start=\"1697\" data-end=\"1729\">32 points in the second half<\/strong> shows we approached the game smarter defensively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1782\" data-end=\"2040\">He then addressed the bigger picture: \u201cWhen you\u2019re mature enough to use losses and build something positive from them, that\u2019s important. <strong data-start=\"1919\" data-end=\"1977\">I\u2019m not a magician to know if the momentum will change<\/strong>, but I hope so. We have to fix some things and we\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek coach praised the defense and the team\u2019s maturity following the win over Maccabi Ra\u2019anana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":470693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,255],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-483975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-israel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/ito.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483975"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=483975"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=483975"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=483975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}