NBA 2016/17

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Van Gandi: Odbrana je mučenje za Marjanovića
Trener Detroit Pistonsa Sten Van Gandi smatra da srpski centar Boban Marjanović ima veliki napadački kvalitet, ali i da se veoma muči u defanzivi.

Potencijalni reprezentativac Srbije je posle ruki sezone u San Antonio Sparsima ovog leta prešao u Detroit Pistonse, gde bi trebalo da dobije veću šansu.
“Boban je nezaustavljiv u napadu. Ne mislim da bilo ko može da odgovori na njegovu igru. Biće još bolji, čim bude počeo da igra. Mnogo radi, mnogo sati provodi u treningu, iako je to prilično teško za čoveka njegovih dimenzija“, rekao je Van Gandi.

Prema njegovim rečima, kada srpski centar bude bio u punoj formi, neće postojati način da se igra protiv njega na niskom postu, ali je naveo i jednu manu.

“Mnogo se muči u odbrani... Radi dobar posao u pokušaju da pokrije ceo teren, uvek pokušava, dobro komunicira. Radi dobre stvari, neke stvari, ali u trening kampu imamo mnogo dobre napadačke bekove i to je veliki problem za njega kada se nađe u situaciji da igra odbranu protiv njih“, zaključio je Van Gandi.

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SAN ANTONIO – Davis Bertans hasn't seen Spurs coach Gregg Popovich go ballistic yet. But after playing for Montenegrin-Serbian coach Dusko Vujosevic, the rookie forward is fully prepared for when Popovich finally decides "to go Serbian" this season.
"I had a really tough coach in Serbia," Bertans said, referring to his days playing in the Serbian League for Partizan under Vujosevic. "I don't know if I ever practiced that hard and that much in my life. So going through that, it helps a lot in the future."

Vujosevic is known for his fiery temper, which led him in 2014 to choke Partizan's Bogdan Bogdanovic after he picked up a technical foul stemming
After Bogdanovic returned to the bench, Vujosevic grabbed him by the throat, an act he later explained was a "pedagogical measure, deriving from the old Prussian school of education," bleacherreport.com reported.
Said Davis, "Honestly, if you think Pop sometimes gets crazy, it's not even that bad. I don't want to see him, of course, in his worst-case madness. I don't want to make him mad. But I've been through something like that before. So even if (Popovich) yells at me, I know it's just for the best, that he just wants the best out of me."
Davis was reminded that Manu Ginobili has said several times during training camp that the team's newcomers have yet to see Popovich in his "worst-case madness."
"That might be true," Davis said, "because it's really calm, and I don't know what people are talking about him getting mad. But we did run a lot of suicides that last practice."

wiki wrote: For the 2015–16 season, the salary cap was $70 million and the luxury tax limit was $84.74 million.^[1] For the 2016–17 season, the salary cap will be set at $94.14 million and the luxury tax limit will be $113.29 million.^[2] For the 2017–18 season, the latest projection is $102 million for the salary cap and $122 million for the luxury tax limit.