{"id":233926,"date":"2021-08-26T18:49:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=233926"},"modified":"2021-08-26T18:49:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:49:54","slug":"devon-hall-i-am-focused-on-milan-the-euroleague-and-the-italian-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/devon-hall-i-am-focused-on-milan-the-euroleague-and-the-italian-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon Hall: I am focused on Milan, the EuroLeague and the Italian league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olimpia Milano presented Devon Hall, one of the team&#8217;s 7 new arrivals for next season, during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Devon Hall is another young player, on whom we have bet convinced that he will prove us right,&#8221;<span> said the general manager of Olimpia, Christos Stavropoulos, introducing the guard out of Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is the great opportunity that I wanted, to compete at the highest level, to play for great goals.\u00a0I am happy and excited to be here, \u201dsays Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>On the Euroleague<\/strong>: &#8220;It&#8217;s the most competitive league that exists in Europe, in some ways I think I am ready, for my versatility, the ability to shoot, to create opportunities for teammates, to fight on defense. I&#8217;ll probably have to work a little to slow down, understand situations better, read what&#8217;s happening on the court. Fortunately, I have teammates who will help me speed up the process \u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>The level of the EuroLeague guards &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><span> \u201cEvery time there will be someone very strong, it&#8217;s a League where you can never be unprepared. There isn&#8217;t a particular opponent I can&#8217;t wait to play against, simply because everyone is, starting with the guards I meet every day in training \u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Versatility &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><span>\u00a0\u201cIt may be that from an NBA perspective it affected me negatively, because that is a league of specialists, in which everyone must have a role, even as a label, point-guard, shooting guard, combo etc.\u00a0But here in Europe my versatility is a strong point and speaking with Coach Messina I had confirmation.\u00a0Being able to do more things and play in more roles helps you here.\u00a0What I need to improve in order to eventually return to the NBA at this point does not matter, because I am focused on Milan, the EuroLeague and the Italian league.\u00a0I have to improve but from this point of view \u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"it\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf99 Devon Hall: \u201cVersatilit\u00e0, tiro e difesa per essere subito da EuroLeague\u201d \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D9j5rM7Bzu\">https:\/\/t.co\/D9j5rM7Bzu<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/insieme?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#insieme<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeDevon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WelcomeDevon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6UfQlOXQQv\">pic.twitter.com\/6UfQlOXQQv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Olimpia Milano (@OlimpiaMI1936) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlimpiaMI1936\/status\/1430932925873332225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hall is ready to debut in Euroleague<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":233927,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[12075,6606],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-233926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","tag-armani-exchange-milano-en","tag-devon-hall-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/devon-hall.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233926","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=233926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233926"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=233926"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=233926"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=233926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}