{"id":28135,"date":"2008-10-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/omri-casspi-give-him-a-chance\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:25:23","slug":"omri-casspi-give-him-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/omri-casspi-give-him-a-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Omri Casspi: \u201cGive Him a Chance.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Translated by Amy Samin<\/FONT>

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Our feelings after the loss in Zagreb to Cibona were not good.
We wanted to win so badly, but the media started pressuring us more.
In the game against Galil\/Gilboa, we looked much better and I hope that will give us a little peace and quiet before tonight\u2019s (Thursday\u2019s) game against Avellino.<\/FONT>

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Personally, it was extremely important to me to play well against Galil, to show Efy that my place is on the court.
When I\u2019m playing, and I know that the team is counting on me, I play well and enjoy that kind of responsibility.
I\u2019m pleased it went well.
When I\u2019m on the court, I feel like I am contributing in several ways, whether it\u2019s on defense, with offensive and defensive rebounds, shooting from outside the arc, but in particular I feel I bring positive energy to the team.
With every game, it\u2019s important to me to be focused, to play well, and to give everything I have to Maccabi Tel Aviv.
And that\u2019s what I always do.<\/FONT>

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Don\u2019t worry about Carlos Arroyo.
He\u2019s a seasoned player with an enormous talent, and not for nothing did he play in the NBA for seven years.
It will take him a little while to adjust to the different style of game we play in Europe, but he knows very well what he needs to do in the games to play better and to contribute more.
We\u2019re counting on him and depend on him, and if he plays well, I believe everyone will play well.<\/FONT>

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The fans at Yad Eliyahu make a powerful contribution.
Each of the players prepares for games in his own way.
We don\u2019t try to pressure one another or tell one another what to do.
It\u2019s the first home (Euroleague) game for us, and after the initial shock and excitement, we need to wake up and play well.<\/FONT>

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It\u2019s important for us to play well and put on a good show, because the fans at Yad Eliyahu know how to appreciate good basketball.
If we play good offense and good defense, the crowd will appreciate it.
We need to come and fight hard for our team, so that the crowd will like what it sees and give us some peace for the next part of the season.
I hope everyone will come to cheer and support us, that there will be a good atmosphere in the arena with the crowd on our side.
If that\u2019s what happens, it will be extremely difficult to beat us.<\/FONT>

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\u201cIt will take Carlos Arroyo awhile to adjust, but he knows better than anyone what he needs to do.\u201d In his new column at Nana10 Sport, Omri Casspi prepares for Maccabi\u2019s first home Euroleague game, against Avellino. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-28135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494757,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135\/revisions\/494757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28135"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=28135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}