{"id":491679,"date":"2026-04-07T11:58:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=491679"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:58:32","slug":"vasilije-micic-under-scrutiny-at-hapoel-tel-aviv-but-the-club-still-believes-in-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/vasilije-micic-under-scrutiny-at-hapoel-tel-aviv-but-the-club-still-believes-in-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasilije Micic under scrutiny at Hapoel Tel Aviv, but the club still believes in him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1673\" data-end=\"1943\"><strong data-start=\"1673\" data-end=\"1691\">Vasilije Micic<\/strong> has not yet matched expectations at <strong data-start=\"1728\" data-end=\"1747\">Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong>, especially considering the scale of his contract and reputation.<br data-start=\"1813\" data-end=\"1816\" \/>According to <em data-start=\"1829\" data-end=\"1843\">Israel Hayom<\/em>, the Serbian point guard is still far from the dominant version that once ruled the <strong data-start=\"1928\" data-end=\"1942\">EuroLeague<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1945\" data-end=\"2254\">The report points to several reasons: his <strong data-start=\"1987\" data-end=\"1994\">NBA<\/strong> spell, a physical condition that is not fully back, and a difficult summer that reportedly affected both rhythm and confidence.<br data-start=\"2122\" data-end=\"2125\" \/>It also argues that <strong data-start=\"2145\" data-end=\"2166\">Dimitris Itoudis\u2019<\/strong> system does not suit Micic in the same way the old <strong data-start=\"2218\" data-end=\"2234\">Anadolu Efes<\/strong> structure once did.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2256\" data-end=\"2635\">Even so, Hapoel have not given up on their star signing. The message from inside the club is clear: <strong data-start=\"2356\" data-end=\"2463\">\u201cHe still hasn\u2019t returned physically to his level, but the brain is there and the basketball is there.\u201d<\/strong><br data-start=\"2463\" data-end=\"2466\" \/>And also: <strong data-start=\"2476\" data-end=\"2550\">\u201cIn the future people will still say it was lucky that he came to us,\u201d<\/strong> a sign that belief remains strong ahead of the most important stretch of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Serbian guard is still far from his Anadolu Efes peak because of fitness, confidence and tactical adaptation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":483623,"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":[199,255],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-491679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-israel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/02\/P5A1869.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491679","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=491679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491679"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=491679"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=491679"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=491679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}