{"id":347955,"date":"2023-09-16T19:34:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=347955"},"modified":"2023-09-16T19:34:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T17:34:05","slug":"willie-cauley-stein-here-in-europe-every-game-and-every-ball-is-important-not-like-in-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/willie-cauley-stein-here-in-europe-every-game-and-every-ball-is-important-not-like-in-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Cauley-Stein: Here in Europe every game and every ball is important, not like in the NBA&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NBA Lottery Pick Willie Cauley-Stein spoke to the media for the first time since his arrival in Italy.<br \/>\nThe big man will play next season with Openjobmetis Varese.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I chose to come to Italy I forced myself not to have expectations; it was my choice because there is often the risk of being disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Varese, however, I must say that I have found a great organisation and strong teammates, I am very happy. I chose to come to Europe because of the more &#8216;tactical&#8217; way of playing compared to the 1vs1 basketball that is played today in the NBA, which is conditioned by the players&#8217; desire to produce personal statistics. Here in Europe every game and every ball is important, not like in the NBA where all 82 games are equal&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Physically I&#8217;m fine and I&#8217;m working with my teammates to improve day by day.<\/p>\n<p>I feel a lot of passion from the city and the fans around us; they make me feel like a superstar, which I am not. However, all this support can only help us to step on the court and give our best.<\/p>\n<p>Golf? It&#8217;s literally an addiction; I played with Toto Bulgheroni and the conditions of the greens here are perfect; on some holes you can see a wonderful panorama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"it\" dir=\"ltr\">Altra giornata di presentazioni, nel primo pomeriggio di oggi infatti <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/McDermott?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#McDermott<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hanlan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hanlan<\/a> e <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CauleyStein?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CauleyStein<\/a> sono stati protagonisti dell\u2019ultima conferenza stampa di presentazione del roster biancorosso \ud83c\udf99\ufe0f\ud83d\uddde\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Link in bio per scoprire le parole dei nostri ragazzi \u26aa\ufe0f\ud83d\udd34<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoiSiamoVarese?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NoiSiamoVarese<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4PN4SHUHaC\">pic.twitter.com\/4PN4SHUHaC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pallacanestro Varese (@PallVarese) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PallVarese\/status\/1702713427959914830?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2023<\/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>The Kentucky product: For a player who loves basketball, the game is better in Europe and that is what motivated me to embark on this journey&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":345205,"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":[259],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-347955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serie-a"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/08\/willie-cauley-stein-varese-arrivo.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347955","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=347955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347955"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=347955"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=347955"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=347955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}