{"id":136549,"date":"2020-02-26T19:53:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T18:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=136549"},"modified":"2020-02-26T19:53:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T18:53:01","slug":"myles-turner-im-an-elite-defender-and-i-have-to-play-like-it-every-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/myles-turner-im-an-elite-defender-and-i-have-to-play-like-it-every-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Myles Turner: I&#8217;m an elite defender and I have to play like it every night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/pacers\/news\/pacers-bounce-back-big-way\">talks with Pacers.com<\/a> after the dominant win over the Charlotte Hornets, in which he contributed with a season-high 8 blocks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;We needed to set the tone earlier and I wanted to make my presence felt,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/pacers\/news\/pacers-bounce-back-big-way\">said Turner<\/a>, who had four of his blocks in the first quarter. &#8220;It&#8217;s something I&#8217;m capable of doing night-in and night-out. I wanted to make a concerted effort of doing that tonight.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be able to catch Whiteside (<em>top NBA shot-blocker with 3.1 x game<\/em>), but that&#8217;s the goal I have every year,&#8221; Turner said. &#8220;I&#8217;m an elite defender and I have to play like it every night.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The former Texas big man is averaging 11.6 points, 6.3 rebounds and 2 blocks, shooting 44% from the field, 34% from long range and 76% from the foul line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turner led the NBA in blocked shots last season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[5913,739,956],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-136549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-domantas-sabonis-en","tag-indiana-pacers-en","tag-myles-turner-en","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136549","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136549"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=136549"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=136549"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=136549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}