{"id":462711,"date":"2025-10-03T16:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=462711"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:17:51","slug":"scariolo-praises-hezonja-he-wants-to-improve-and-help-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/scariolo-praises-hezonja-he-wants-to-improve-and-help-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Scariolo praises Hezonja: \u201cHe wants to improve and help the team\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"981\" data-end=\"1316\">Following Real Madrid\u2019s EuroLeague win over Olympiacos, coach <strong data-start=\"1043\" data-end=\"1062\">Sergio Scariolo<\/strong> praised <strong data-start=\"1071\" data-end=\"1088\">Mario Hezonja<\/strong>, who scored 18 points. \u201cI was a little worried, but I see someone who wants to improve, be disciplined and help the team. He accepts criticism and corrections. The only way to get better is to lead by example,\u201d Scariolo said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1318\" data-end=\"1581\">He also highlighted Madrid\u2019s shooting improvement compared to the opener vs Virtus Bologna and stressed the need to build long-term cohesion. Scariolo ruled out returns for <strong data-start=\"1491\" data-end=\"1507\">Theo Maledon<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1512\" data-end=\"1532\">Gabriele Procida<\/strong> ahead of Sunday\u2019s ACB clash with Gran Canaria.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1583\" data-end=\"1598\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Real Madrid\u2019s EuroLeague win over Olympiacos, coach Sergio Scariolo praised Mario Hezonja, who scored 18 points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":462359,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-462711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Sergio-Scariolo.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462711","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462711"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=462711"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=462711"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=462711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}