{"id":318655,"date":"2023-02-22T19:49:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=318655"},"modified":"2023-02-22T19:49:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:49:54","slug":"daniel-hackett-sometimes-you-have-to-sacrifice-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/daniel-hackett-sometimes-you-have-to-sacrifice-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Hackett: \u2018Sometimes you have to sacrifice to win\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cPretty much my whole journey as a kid was around basketball. My father was a basketball coach, so I was always around gyms and basketball players<\/em>,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/news\/daniel-hackett-virtus-sometimes-you-have-to-sacrifice-to-win\/?pageTitle=Game%20Notes:%20Virtus%20vs.%20Baskonia&amp;historyUrl=\/euroleague\/news\/tae2223-rs25-game-notes-virtus-vs-baskonia\/\"><strong>\u00a0Hackett says of his youth to IMG<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The EuroCup triumph put Hackett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/news\/daniel-hackett-virtus-sometimes-you-have-to-sacrifice-to-win\/\">and Virtus<\/a> back in the continental elite this season and it\u2019s been an experience that he has cherished.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s a big opportunity for me to keep improving, to try to take as many trophies as I can, try to win every game, every time I step on the court,\u201d Hackett explains. \u201cOn top of that, it\u2019s a chance that we have to be in the EuroLeague, to bring this club to a whole new level.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Perhaps to best understand the impact Hackett has had on Virtus, it\u2019s best to turn to the team\u2019s head coach.<\/strong>\u201c<em>He brings fire, he brings passion, he brings competitiveness, he brings toughness. He has no fear to take the shots too,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Coach Sergio Scariolo says of Hackett.\u00a0<em>\u201cIt\u2019s really good to have him in the team, especially with many young players who are developing their best competitive personality.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackett is averaging 6 points and 2.6 assists per game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":301917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-318655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/11\/COS_9835.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318655","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=318655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318655"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=318655"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=318655"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=318655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}