{"id":176280,"date":"2020-10-05T13:53:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T11:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=176280"},"modified":"2020-10-05T13:53:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T11:53:30","slug":"vojislav-stojanovic-signing-with-turin-was-the-biggest-mistake-of-my-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/vojislav-stojanovic-signing-with-turin-was-the-biggest-mistake-of-my-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Vojislav Stojanovic: signing with Turin was the biggest mistake of my career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vojislav Stojanovic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.b92.net\/sport\/intervjui\/intervjui.php?yyyy=2020&amp;mm=10&amp;nav_category=91&amp;nav_id=1742664\">speaks with B92 <\/a>of the years spent playing in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>About Gianluca Basile<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll just tell you that Gianluca Basile doesn&#8217;t have jeans in his closet, nothing but tracksuits. He&#8217;s a legend, a very good man. He had a great relationship with me, he knows our mentality and he approached me very nicely. I went fishing with him, I remember we caught a tuna that weighed 130 kilograms. Basile is not interested in anything but basketball and fishing. At the age of 40, he spent four or five hours a day in the hall&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the age of 18, Basile played in Reggio Emilia and worked as a &#8220;carabinieri&#8221;. Every day he traveled four hours to the some city to work as a soldier, then he came back, went to training and so on every day. So it was until the age of 21. Unprecedented commitment. A great player, even bigger as a man. He is one of mine favorite teammates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About Torino<\/p>\n<p>This is maybe the biggest mistake of my career. I had an offer to sign a multi-year contract with Milan and play my first season on loan, or to play one year with Turin in the Eurocup. I thought, &#8216;If I play the Eurocup well, maybe next year i&#8217;ll sign for a better club &#8216;. I was guided by that logic and I thought I wasn&#8217;t wrong, but from this perspective &#8230; I&#8217;d better sign a perennial with Milan. I made a big mistake, but no one knew what would happen in Turin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On Larry Brown<\/p>\n<p>Larry Brown promised me towers and cities (idioms, smh big). He talked to my manager, told him how I would play for 30 minutes and how he would take care of me. I believed in it, but obviously it wasn&#8217;t like that. Larry Brown is a great coach, he coached Alain Iverson, won the title with Detroit, and as far as that is concerned, he is a great legend &#8230; But, he played a lot of games in Europe and lost them all. It is obvious that his system of work could not function in Europe. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More about Torino<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I played a great friendly match against Varese and Larry Brown told me after the match: &#8216;You played great, just keep it up.&#8217; I thought we were on good terms again, but the next morning I came to the hall and the president&#8217;s son was waiting for me and he tells me, &#8220;Larry doesn&#8217;t want you on the team anymore. You don&#8217;t have to come to training&#8221;. More precisely, I had one training session a day and they set that training to be at seven in the morning. That&#8217;s how I trained for two months.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stojanovic:  I train in Belgrade with Aco Matovi\u0107, I work hard every day and I have never felt more ready. 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