{"id":31143,"date":"2011-07-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/its-official-scheyer-happy-to-be-part-of-maccabi\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:38:49","slug":"its-official-scheyer-happy-to-be-part-of-maccabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/its-official-scheyer-happy-to-be-part-of-maccabi\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official: Scheyer \u201chappy to be part of Maccabi\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>By Amy Samin<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Jon Scheyer, who successfully passed cardio-pulmonary stress tests earlier on Sunday, addressed the media at a press conference held in Nokia Arena. The event was attended by the management of the club, president Shimon Mizrahi, David Federman, and Oudi Recanati. Also present were team manager Gur Shelef and former Maccabi player Tal Brody.<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>At the start of the press conference, Mizrahi said a few words to the young player. \u201cWelcome, Jon. You are not a guest; you are now part of the Maccabi family. You are here with your agent, and I can tell you that you made a good choice; he\u2019s an excellent agent who takes good care of you. It\u2019s not a big secret that we were after you as a player already last year. Our coaches were examining all of your games and the injury that you had, and thank God everything is okay. We\u2019re really happy to have you here with us.\u201d<\/FONT> <\/P> <P align=center><IFRAME height=349 src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rxurEN3guJI?hl=iw&#038;fs=1\" frameBorder=0 width=425 allowfullscreen><\/IFRAME><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>\u201cFirst of all, I want to thank everybody in the organization for having me,\u201d said Scheyer at the start of his remarks. \u201cThis is my first time in Israel and it\u2019s been a great experience so far. I\u2019ve heard nothing but great things from the people in my area back home who have been here many times\u2026I\u2019m very excited to start, and I feel I have a lot to prove. I\u2019m playing for a great organization with a lot of great history and tradition, and that\u2019s something I feel very honored to be a part of. I\u2019m looking forward to getting to know my teammates and learn from Coach Blatt\u2026 I feel confident and excited, and I just can\u2019t wait to get out there and get started.\u201d<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Scheyer also shared his impressions about the warm welcome he received from dozens of fans at Ben Gurion Airport upon his arrival in Israel: \u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like that. I\u2019ve heard how supportive the fans are, but to see that first-hand\u2026to see how many people showed up at the airport\u2026it means a lot to me.\u201d<\/FONT><\/P> <P align=center><IMG border=1 hspace=0 alt=\"\" align=baseline src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabi.co.il\/mtpic\/20110703%200057.jpg\"><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In response to a question about the pressure on Maccabi players, Scheyer said, \u201cClearly, Maccabi has always had high expectations; I think that\u2019s something I\u2019ve been used during college at Duke. I understand that, and it\u2019s something I just need to learn. It\u2019s one thing to have an expectation, but I think until you experience it, it\u2019s a different story.\u201d<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>\u201cObviously I haven\u2019t played for him yet, but Coach Blatt is a great coach, from everything I\u2019ve heard and from talking to him. He just knows the game really well. I watched a little last year and they played so well as a team, they played tough defense\u2026that\u2019s why they went so far. Obviously, you can\u2019t have expectations just based on what they did last year; it\u2019s a different team despite how many guys are coming back. The opportunities I had to watch them, they were great.\u201d Scheyer was asked if he would rather shoot or pass at the end of a tied game; the player responded that he would follow \u201cwhatever play was called\u2026whatever is the right play to do in that situation is what I\u2019d do.\u201d<\/FONT> <\/P> <P align=center><IMG border=1 hspace=0 alt=\"\" align=baseline src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabi.co.il\/mtpic\/20110703%200092.jpg\"><BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>When asked which position he preferred to play, Scheyer replied, \u201cI\u2019ve played 2 for most of my life, and I played 1 in the last part of my college career\u2026 I think it\u2019s more about what players I\u2019m playing with. I think at certain times I\u2019m better playing at the 2 with whoever\u2019s on the floor, and other times I feel I can bring the ball up and initiate offense\u2026So, I feel really comfortable playing both.\u201d<\/FONT><\/P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><\/FONT> <P align=center><IMG border=1 hspace=0 alt=\"\" align=baseline src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabi.co.il\/mtpic\/20110703%200104.jpg\"><BR><\/P> <P><A href=\"https:\/\/www.samintranslations.com\/\" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><U>www.samintranslations.com<\/U><\/FONT><\/A><FONT size=2 face=Arial> <\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a press conference held at Nokia Arena Sunday, Jon Scheyer declared, \u201cI\u2019m very excited to start and I feel I have a lot to prove\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-31143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31143","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=31143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496216,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31143\/revisions\/496216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31143"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=31143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}