{"id":250862,"date":"2021-12-07T14:17:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=250862"},"modified":"2021-12-07T14:17:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:17:41","slug":"johnathan-motley-ive-enjoyed-every-moment-being-over-here-playing-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/johnathan-motley-ive-enjoyed-every-moment-being-over-here-playing-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnathan Motley: I&#8217;ve enjoyed every moment being over here playing so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lokomotiv Kuban power forward Johnathan Motley talks about his first part of the season in Eurocup.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think I&#8217;m headed in the right direction,\u201d Motley said. \u201cI like the way the game has been for me. I really want to try and stay out of foul trouble and rebound a little more, but other than that I think I&#8217;m playing good basketball so far.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the decision to leave the NBA<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI just got tired of sitting on the bench. It felt like I was rotting away and while I&#8217;m still young I just want to enjoy playing the game of basketball again,\u201d he said. \u201cThe NBA is very tough if you\u2019re not in the rotation every night. It takes a toll mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI figured if I left and had a legit role it would make me happier long term, and so far, it has been true,\u201d he said. \u201cI&#8217;ve enjoyed every moment being over here playing so far. Hopefully, I can keep playing well and the team will continue to have success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Early-season highlights of Johnathan Motley with Lokomotiv\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GztSYB7wxlM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to prove to myself that I can dominate anywhere,\u201d he said. \u201cI chose Loko because I knew they were a good stepping-stone club. A lot of players who play here have the opportunity to jump up to high ranks. I also loved the coach&#8217;s playing style, and I thought it would benefit the way I play, which it has so far. So I think I made a good choice&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motley leads the EuroCup in scoring with 23 points per game, shooting an incredible 73% from 2 points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":245299,"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":[197],"tags":[15555,2636],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-250862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocup","tag-johnathan-motley-en","tag-lokomotiv-kuban-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/11\/johnathan-motley.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250862","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=250862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250862"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=250862"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=250862"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=250862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}