{"id":234350,"date":"2021-08-29T19:15:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T17:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=234350"},"modified":"2021-08-29T19:15:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T17:15:40","slug":"usman-garuba-i-want-to-be-able-to-do-more-and-more-things-on-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/usman-garuba-i-want-to-be-able-to-do-more-and-more-things-on-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Usman Garuba: I want to be able to do more and more things on the court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Rockets big man Usman Garuba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/baloncesto\/nba\/2021\/08\/29\/612a1ddfe2704e6b338b463c.html\">talks with Marca<\/a> talks about expectations for his rookie season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1tjCLvyi3G\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/highlights-usman-garuba-with-8-points-10-rebounds-6-assists-5-steals-in-win-vs-portland\/?dev\">Highlights: Usman Garuba with 8 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 5 steals in win vs Portland<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Highlights: Usman Garuba with 8 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 5 steals in win vs Portland&#8221; &#8212; Sportando\" src=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/highlights-usman-garuba-with-8-points-10-rebounds-6-assists-5-steals-in-win-vs-portland\/embed\/?dev#?secret=dGcSqm67HD#?secret=1tjCLvyi3G\" data-secret=\"1tjCLvyi3G\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be a different experience because I&#8217;m in a team where they won&#8217;t ask me the same things I did at Real Madrid, of course. The Rockets are rebuilding, the many young talents of the team will play many minutes&#8230;. The key will be to improve day by day and this is also my goal, to grow day by day, working and improving many aspects that I have not been able to do these years due to the demands of Real Madrid. Having the ball\u00a0 more often, the kind of thing I couldn&#8217;t do in Madrid, where I had to adapt to a role. In general, I want to be able to do more and more things on the court&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The former Real Madrid big man was the No.23 pick of the last NBA Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garuba is one of four rookies selected by the Rockets in the first round of the 2021 NBA Draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":231310,"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":[399],"tags":[435,3320],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-234350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-houston-rockets","tag-usman-garuba-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/Garuba.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234350","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=234350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234350"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=234350"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=234350"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=234350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}