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Well, he is being honest. Fans here are spoiled and its not that loud in the AT&T Center.
First of all, I want to thank all the readers for paying attention to this blog and to those who wrote comments in the previous post for their support. It’s good to see so much people caring about what I do. I even enjoyed the comments from the haters!
Let’s go to basketball… Well, it’s been a nice ride for me since the last time I blogged here. I’m probably playing my best basketball right now and the team has been doing pretty well too. We won like eight or nine games in a row before we lost to Panathinaikos, who is the best team in Europe. At halftime, I thought we had a chance to beat them, but it was not to be. Anyway, I had a good game so at least I was happy with that.
Right now I’m feeling way more comfortable playing. People here were telling me it would take me more than a month to get used to the type of basketball that’s played over here and I guess they were right. It’s like I’m finding my niche – being active, rebounding and shooting well… One of the toughest things is adjusting to the new rules. Travelling… Aww. Refs here call traveling a lot. Sometimes you take the first step on the fast break thinking it’s going to be an easy basket and then you hear the whistle! Well, I guess I will have to adjust to that.
Another difference? Fans. They are just incredible. They come early and cheer the whole game no matter who we are facing. I played in San Antonio last season, you know. And no disrespect to people there (they are very loyal and all that), but Spurs fans are so used to winning that they are a little bit spoiled. They sit, watch and cheer sometimes. Here is a whole different story. There’s just much, much more passion.
Life off the court hasn’t changed much for me. I don’t go to a lot of places and it has a lot to do with the area of the city in which I live. I’m in the Asian part of Istanbul and most of the places to go are in the European side. That’s a big issue since the traffic here is absolutely crazy. If you want to go to the hot spots, you have to cross the bridge. And if you get unlucky you can get stuck in a traffic jam there for three hours. I’m not feeling that!
One last thing: You’d never imagine how much you miss American TV living abroad.
Talk to you guys later this month. Keep those comments coming.
Bye.
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Well, he is being honest. Fans here are spoiled and its not that loud in the AT&T Center.
Dont get me wrong I agree with you...and J White, fans here are pretty lame for the most part
That's what happens when you charge $6.50 for a bottle of beer.
If they would go back to five cent beer night....
You can only imagine.
lol, even the players know we have the worse home crowd of any winning team........it's like being at a hawks game......
kinda like the brawl at the palace....it would be the battle of the alamo all over again...im with itThat's what happens when you charge $6.50 for a bottle of beer.
If they would go back to five cent beer night....
You can only imagine.
James Right!
Spurs' fans aren't one of the loudest nba crowd for sure but there isn't a single nba crowd as loud as what happened in Turkey or Greece.
As example, Panathinaikos' fans :
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=u0rMe2Vyb9E
I have no idea what they're saying. But thats a beautiful sight. I could only wish to go to a game with that type of crowd participation. Lower bowl of the att center just plain sucks though.
Tim Duncan is starting to rub off Spurs fans.
I distinctly remember us being in the top for best home crowd in the NBA when David was here.. now we have 4 championships, what happened?
wow wow wow...very impressive
but but.. are they going to let the team paly the ball? haha
and why all guys no ladies?
imaging we can be that same energized for our spurs........which song shall we sing???
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