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Maccabi Fox Tel Aviv welcomes FC Barcelona Lassa to Yad Eliyahu on Thursday night at 21:05 in what is always a hotly contested matchup as the Yellow & Blue will look to exact revenge after falling 89-67 in Spain. Maccabi enters the game in 8th place with a record of 11-10 while Barcelona sits in 13th at 7-14 having just released coach Sito Alonso. Alfred Julbe who had been manning the sidelines for Barcelona B will take over behind the bench for the visitors who are only 1-9 on the road as Maccabi holds a 8-3 home record.
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Barcelona<\/p><\/div>
\nBarcelona always features some of the most interesting players plying their trade in Europe and Phil Pressey<\/strong> is no exception. After playing in the NBA for the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers while also spending time with development league teams Idaho Stampede and the Santa Cruz Warriors, Pressey is making his first foray across the Atlantic Ocean with the 2x Euroleague Champions. Although he hasn’t featured much over the last number of Euroleague games he is in the regular rotation in the ACB League, one of the best domestic leagues in the world and will certainly look to take advantage of the coaching change to show what we all know what he can do on the hardwood. The 5\u201d11 guard spoke exclusively to The Sports Rabbi about how he learned the basketball trade from his father while looking back at his time with Missouri to adjusting in Europe: <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been up and down. There\u2019s been a lot of different adjustments that I\u2019ve had to make, but overall it\u2019s been good. I\u2019ve had good teammates, I\u2019ve had a lot of fun playing. \u00a0It\u2019s just were not winning as much as I\u2019d like to. But overall it\u2019s been good.\u00a0It\u2019s a great club, one of the best there is so we have to bring it every single night and if you don\u2019t you\u2019ll be criticized. I like the criticism because they expect you to be good, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re working towards. We still have half the season left and we\u2019re trying to turn this thing around.\u201d<\/p>\n

What have been your biggest challenges?<\/strong>
\n\u201cI would say the traveling to different countries and playing against different teams. The fans are crazy everywhere, they love their teams so much. There\u2019s so much passion for each team.\u00a0You get to feel it. \u00a0When you\u2019re at home your fans want you to win so bad. It kind of brings me back to college, your friends and your teammates and everybody is so into the team and it makes the games mean so much more.\u201d
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Euroleague.net<\/p><\/div>
\nHow will the coaching change affect the team going into the Maccabi game?<\/strong>
\n\u201cI\u2019m not sure. I don\u2019t know how this is going to affect us because this is the first time it\u2019s ever happened to me. So I can\u2019t speak too much about it. One thing I can say is that we\u2019re going to come out and play hard and let the rest take care of itself.\u00a0We need to control what we can control, and that\u2019s playing hard, playing for each other and let the rest fall where they fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

How influential has your father, former NBA start Paul Pressey been in the development of your basketball career?<\/strong>
\n\u201cHe\u2019s been a big influence. The most important thing he\u2019s taught me is always do the right thing. Always make the right play. Always be a professional. Always take care of things that you can handle, be a good teammate be a good leader. Just do all the rights things, and that\u2019s helped me get to where I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n

How else has he been a factor?<\/strong>
\n\u201cHe\u2019s played the game and he\u2019s coached the game so he knows both sides of the game. I take everything he says very highly. He\u2019s been in my shoes before. There were times when he played great and times where he didn\u2019t. There were times he played a lot of minutes, and times he didn\u2019t play.\u00a0So I take everything he says very highly because he\u2019s been in my shoes. Twice.\u201d
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NBA.com<\/p><\/div>
\nDid he tell you some stories about the Bucks teams he was on under Coach Don Nelson, and developing him into the point-forward which was before its time?<\/strong>
\n\u201cHe just talked about how Don Nelson liked big point guards because they liked to switch everything. It\u2019s a lot easier when you can switch everything and not give up that advantage. He talked about how much they used to compete back in the day, and how much in practice nothing was guaranteed, and how you had to play in practice every day to earn minutes which is a little different today as you don\u2019t practice as hard, and they all have this science to take care of your body. But back in the day they just went hard every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n

When your father was coaching were there any players from any of the teams that had an influence on your career?<\/strong>
\n\u201cThere have been a couple players.\u00a0It\u2019s kind of crazy when I was in the NBA, Tim Duncan remembered me from when my dad was with the Spurs. Every time I would play against him he\u2019d say \u201chey I remember back when I was a rookie and you were 8-9 years old and now we\u2019re in the NBA together.\u201d\u00a0So that was pretty crazy. Chris Paul, I think I was in 9th grade when he was in New Orleans with my dad, and he gave me a couple of things I should work on and told me to stay focused and dedicated. As a 13-14 year old when an NBA All Star tells you that, you take it very highly. I took things from a lot of different guys, growing up around the NBA. So I\u2019m very blessed to have that.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your most memorable moment playing at Missouri?<\/strong>
\n\u201cWhen we won the Big 12 Championship. That was a pretty good thing. I think we finished the year number 2 (3) in the country. That was my sophomore year.\u201d
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Barcelona<\/p><\/div>
\nHow disappointing was it not to be able to go far in the tournament each of the years that you were there?<\/strong>
\n\u201cIt was very disappointing. You take every loss and you learn from it for down the road if you\u2019re in that position again. I feel like in Europe when you go to your championship and your playoffs — we have one next week, the Copa del Rey — that\u2019s only a one game elimination. So that reminds me of college, every game counts. We just play one game and then we have another one the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Are you in touch with any of your former college teammates and did they help with your decision to play in Europe?<\/strong>
\n\u201cMike Dixon, he\u2019s in Istanbul. Marcus Denmon\u2019s at Panathinaikos. Kim English, he\u2019s coaching now at the University of Colorado. Ricardo Ratcliffe, he\u2019s in Korea. They all said what they thought was the best thing to do. But at the end of the day it was my decision. I just felt like this was a good opportunity for me to play and really get a chance to see what Europe is like. Overall it was my decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

You had a great year last year for Santa Cruz. Did you think you were going to end up in the NBA?<\/strong>
\n\u201cYeah I did. I did because some of the numbers that I put up and how great I was playing. But it didn\u2019t happen. It allowed me to come to Barcelona and this in one of the greatest clubs in Europe so I\u2019m excited to be here. It\u2019s a great, great club and they\u2019ve treated me with great respect and I appreciate it. I\u2019m just hoping we can turn this thing around.\u201d
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Euroleague.net<\/p><\/div>
\nIs the NBA dream still alive?<\/strong>
\n\u201cOh yeah, always. It\u2019s always in the back of mind. I\u2019ve been there and I know what it feels like to play against the best. But as of right now I\u2019m in Barcelona and I\u2019m going to control this and take it day by day.\u201d<\/p>\n

You\u2019re not the tallest point guard out there, that\u2019s for sure. What\u2019s your reaction when I tell you that you can\u2019t teach size?<\/strong>
\n\u201cI say that all the time. You can\u2019t teach it. That\u2019s why 7-footers are able to play for so long. Whether they\u2019re more skilled or they can\u2019t make the layup or they can\u2019t do this, you can never teach size. That\u2019s something that either you\u2019ve got it or you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Are you excited about coming to Israel and have a chance to play Maccabi Tel Aviv?<\/strong>
\n\u201cYes, they have a great team. We played over in that area in Turkey and you saw the fans out there and how excited and how into the game they were. I don\u2019t doubt that Maccabi is not going to be the same. It should be a lot of fun. I love atmosphere\u2019s like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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