Jose Manuel Calderon: “We’re not that far away”

**mikhail1973** · #1 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 05:08 PM

HoopsHype.com NBA Blogs - Jorge Sierra » Jose Manuel Calderon: “We’re not that far away”

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At the end of the season, when Shawn Marion came, that’s when we started to play the way we wanted, more up-tempo, when everybody was 100 percent physically… That’s when we proved we’re not that far away. We beat very good teams and we can be up there with them. We just have to make a few changes and some of them are under way. If we do that, we can fight with everybody.

TheStar.com | Sports | Calderon healthy and hungry

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There will be no playing for Spain in the European championships in September – the first time he's refused a call from the national team in more than a decade – and hours spent in the workout room and on the court.
"It's very important for our team that I am better," he said after finishing another day at the week-long camp he runs for kids in the Extremadura region near his home town. "I had good numbers (12.8 points, 8.9 assists per game) but I was not the real Jose Calderon.
"If I can get those numbers up a little bit, maybe to 15 and 10 or 15 and 9, and I am 100 per cent, I know I can compete against all the point guards in the league."

I wonder that this is the reason Spain chose Rubio over Calderon to play PG

blackhawk · #2 (**permalink**) 07-06-2009, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by mikhail1973

HoopsHype.com NBA Blogs - Jorge Sierra » Jose Manuel Calderon: “We’re not that far away”

TheStar.com | Sports | Calderon healthy and hungry

I wonder that this is the reason Spain chose Rubio over Calderon to play PG

I thought Calderon was injured in the Finals.

Ryder · #3 (**permalink**) 07-06-2009, 01:07 PM

If you think about it, Raptors are one good SG away from having a solid starting 5, their bench is very weak though.