[In my youth], I played a little soccer but I think because of my height and my friends I got involved in basketball. It was my passion since I was young. I started playing at age 7, so I've been playing for quite a while. |
Being the best [basketball] league in the world, I think the NBA grows and looks for the best players in the world. |
I don't know if I am a mystery. I don't have any secret weapons or anything. I just work hard every day. That is the philosophy of my life. |
I feel more confident in myself and with the system. I don't go running around like crazy at the beginning anymore. |
I realized then, I think I was set up. They didn't tell me until the last day, and I felt really bad about that. They didn't tell me I needed to play a couple more years. If they had said that, I could have accepted their point. |
I still haven't seen a tape of that game, only when they've showed highlights in Argentina, and almost everyone starts crying. But it taught us a lot of things for the Olympic games. |
It's like a new life. New country, and in the family we have a new member. I keep telling people I feel like I'm 22 again. |
Manu has opened big doors for Argentina players. NBA teams trust Argentina players now. |
Playing in Europe so many years, you see more strategy, not so much freestyle game. You learn how to make plays for your teammates. For me, that is one of my powers. |
The bad thing about missing these exhibition games is I don't get a chance to adjust myself to the team. But the good thing is I get to see the different things that we do. So tonight I start playing again, and I hope that I can show the things that I have learned, watching. |
You've got an engine rolling. You've got to go there and not bother anything, don't break nothing, because this is a champion team. |