{"id":514279,"date":"2026-09-08T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=514279"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:00:53","slug":"marcus-carr-its-an-honor-to-be-coached-by-alex-mumbru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/marcus-carr-its-an-honor-to-be-coached-by-alex-mumbru\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Carr: \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be coached by Alex Mumbru\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"0\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"3231c406-fbba-4552-be65-4edbad7c3f5c\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-6\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"fbskMG_root markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"476\">New <strong data-start=\"236\" data-end=\"254\">Virtus Bologna<\/strong> guard Marcus Carr spoke to the media during the club\u2019s Media Day, discussing his first impressions of head coach <strong data-start=\"368\" data-end=\"383\">Alex Mumbru<\/strong>, his role with the team and some of the players who have inspired him throughout his career.<\/p>\n<h2 data-section-id=\"15zmejr\" data-start=\"478\" data-end=\"521\">\u201cMumbru already knew what I could bring\u201d<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"703\">Carr explained that Mumbru was already familiar with his game after watching him play in Germany last season, when the Spanish coach was also in charge of the German national team.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"705\" data-end=\"895\">\n<p data-start=\"707\" data-end=\"895\">\u201cCoach Mumbru had the chance to watch a lot of my games because I was playing in Germany last year and he is the German national team coach. 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