When you are a player who comes from Europe, perhaps not too well known in the mountains of Salt Lake Cityit also happens that you have to start your own NBA adventure by clarifying a little mystery. That’s what happened to Simone Fontecchio, fresh from the excellent European with the blue jersey and finally ready to start his NBA adventure, with the Utah Jazz jersey. The one he wore for almost eight years Joe Inglesor the player who – according to the Utah media – was the idol of blue. A misunderstanding born during an interview conducted at the Tokyo Olympic Games last summer: “The journalist understood that he was my idol, but I never said that“, Fontecchio declared, explaining an (alleged) statement that had seemed strange even to the Australian former Jazz player (“They better find a better idol,” Ingles joked, before giving compliments on his Olympic opponent). “Obviously I admire and respect him a lot“, Fontecchio specified speaking of Ingles, but” dismantling “news that was already gaining popularity among Jazz fans.
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Fontecchio is not Ingles but he will certainly be able to bring some of them to Utah as a dowry technical features who made the player’s fortune now at the Bucks (injured): “The throw it is one of my strengths – just like it was for Ingles – and I am happy with a playing in the open field“, declared the blue.” With mine defence It’s mine intensity I think I can be a factor. “Without forgetting the areas of the game still to be improved: “Ball handling, game readings and pick and roll management”. Here are three areas where Ingles has accustomed the Utah fans very well for years.
