Arizona's gregarious Italian-bred assistant coach said the fun part about basketball is the friendly rivalries within.
Bruce Pascoe After trying to help the Wildcats get better over the first month of last summer, Arizona assistant coach Riccardo Fois then had to pay the price for doing so.
Fois wouldn’t have it any other way. Italy wound up winning the game 83-62, but Arizona’s gregarious Italian-bred assistant coach said the fun part about basketball is the friendly rivalries within. “It was awesome,” Fois said. “It was so cool to be there. We saw each other the days before the game and after the game, and he actually became a really good friend of our head coach for Italy , who a point guard. He was very similar how Kerr plays, so they bonded. Everybody loved Kerr and the way he played. He played a great EuroBasket. He gave a chance for Estonia to make it to the second round.
Kriisa also let the basketball world he didn’t lack confidence earlier in the summer, jabbering at NBA all-Star Luka Doncic during Estonia’s 104-83 loss to Slovenia in a FIBA 2023 World Cup qualifier. Estonia actually held a 23-18 lead at the end of the first quarter before losing. UA wing Pelle Larsson also defended Doncic heavily while playing for Sweden in another World Cup qualifier.
“National team life is a little different. You have a lot of games, very restricted days, and you don’t have this huge staff that you have in college. So you kind of divide up the work and the beautiful thing is that gave us complete freedom, and he’s a great motivator. I learned a lot, just the belief he had in his players and how he was able to motivate them and love them. It’s kind of similar to many things that we do things here.
Fois said he thought Mannion would return to the NBA someday, with speed that translates well even at that level. If he does, and maybe winds up facing Fois somewhere in the NBA or otherwise, Fois will be awaiting that matchup, too.
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