Carlos Arroyo's Performance in Europe and Israel

[Mr Charisma 0]

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Originally posted by Ag

[ibonedteribell 0]

Mr. Charisma, party pooper, just let us praise him while we are ahead. Yes, Carlos is a fun player to watch in this less rigid style of play. Its like Jameer when he gets the groove.

[Mr Charisma 0]

quote:

Originally posted by ibonedteribell:

Mr. Charisma, party pooper, just let us praise him while we are ahead. Yes, Carlos is a fun player to watch in this less rigid style of play. Its like Jameer when he gets the groove.

LOL !!

 

I wasn't intending to negate anything Los is doing. My point was really that Childress needs time to adjust before his numbers will truly reflect his worth.

 

Go ahead and praise Los. He understands the international game and, best of all, it sounds like he is in a system that asks him to do the things he excels at.

 

Good for him.

[KLR 5]

I really like the Josh Childress afro, it is as good as Baron Davis beard.

[Analyst 1]

Thanks for that link, it was great to see our Carlos hit the winning shot. What I like of the reporters of Jerusalem, Israel and that area, is that they always say, "Carlos Arroyo the puertorican guy" or they put the name of Puerto Rico somewhere. They know CA is proud of PR and PR is proud of him.

I'm glad he is doing the job in his new team. He really deserved the chance to be a very important piece of a team.

As of JNelson. There's nothing new. He still inconsistent and overpaid. There's no more Arroyo or Dooling anymore to help, he has a great chance to show who he really is, and as of now, I don't know about you guys, but, untill now this season, he is playing worse this year.

[Castro 0]

Hello everyone!

 

I found this forum...i dont know if will help you too much..because all post are in hebrew...but here is the Maccabi forum...

 

http://www.maccabifans.co.il/forum/

 

If you have time...you can translate it..using a Hebrew english translator.

 

Hope tomorrow Maccabi and Arroyo play great to beat Olympiakos.

[Jameera Nelshon 3]

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Fidel Castro:

 

Hello everyone!

 

I found this forum...i dont know if will help you too much..because all post are in hebrew...but here is the Maccabi forum...

 

http://www.maccabifans.co.il/forum/

 

If you have time...you can translate it..using a Hebrew english translator.

 

Hope tomorrow Maccabi and Arroyo play great to beat Olympiakos.

[Carolvs V 0]

Talking about tomorrow's game against Olympiacos, this is what Carlitos has done in the past two games of the Euroleague:

 

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The key behind Maccabi's two recent Euroleague wins was the play of Carlos Arroyo.

 

The Puerto Rican has averaged 19.5 points, 6.5 assists and 6 rebounds in the victories, turning over the ball just three times in total.

 

 

Impressive performance by the Puerto Rican!

 

Maccabi visits Greece to play Olympiacos

 

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=122640471734...JPArticle%2FShowFull

[DrAcO Is In ThE DeAtHrOw! 0]

Our very own Ray Allen

 

By Haaretz Correspondent and Staff , By Yaniv Orgad

 

 

 

Carlos Arroyo, the most highly-paid player in Maccabi Tel Aviv history, is a tough interviewee. The point man''s pedantic, meticulous nature have earned him dubious comparisons with the Boston Celtics'' Ray Allen - one of the sharpest shooters to ever grace the NBA. Allen has been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder and owns a key to every NBA arena so he can arrive at practice early to perfect his flawless form.

 

Arroyo, the 29-year-old guard for the Puerto Rican national team, relates with pride how he took a number of courses during his seven seasons in the NBA on how to deal with the media. Advertisement

 

 

I know how to identify a question, I''m not dumb. You come with negative questions to try and bring out information on what''s going on behind the scenes. That''s why I won''t answer any question that I feel isn''t going in the right direction, he says.

 

The media also gets caught up with little things. I''ve never come across negativity like this.

 

Arroyo says he struggled with a number of concerns before landing in Tel Aviv to work out his record $2.5 million annual contract. Not about the money, of course, or even about going -FROM- third-string point man in Orlando to shot-caller on last year''s second-place finisher in Europe. Rather, his doubts stemmed -FROM- the fact that knew next to nothing about Israel.

 

Suspicions seem to have gone both ways. Maccabi managers were taken aback by stories they had heard about Arroyo''s punctiliousness, and worried they had acquired a younger version of Allen.

 

Both Arroyo and Allen, it turned out, are workaholics who expect perfection -FROM- their teammates, have a fondness for sporting fine suits before and after games and ask a few too many questions, on and off the court.

 

Carlos is so fussy that it''s sometimes a little tiring, says a Maccabi official.

 

According to Arroyo, before I arrive somewhere I like to know everything about it. And when I get there I try to learn about everyone, about the leaders. Israel is definitely an interesting experience for me.

 

But even Arroyo knows he isn''t here on an anthropological mission, but to lead a team with sky-high expectations, which in its first two months of play this season has failed to rise above the clouds.

 

Arroyo has thus far acquitted himself passably, but not spectacularly - 16.3 points and five rebounds per game in the Euroleague, 13.5 points and three assists per game in domestic play.

 

His numbers are better than those of his predecessor, Will Bynum, and Arroyo is blessedly free of Bynum''s off-court antics, which included a court date for an alleged hit-and-run outside a Tel Aviv nightclub.

 

And Bynum played beside competent players like Terrence Morris, Nikola Vujcic and Yotam Halperin (the last two now at Olympiacos), so a bad day for him did not necessarily mean a bad day for the entire team.

 

By contrast, when Arroyo went 2 for 13 in the opening game of the Euroleague against Cibona, Maccabi lost. When he raised his game in the next two contests, the team prevailed.

 

I have it good here and all of my earlier worries have disappeared. I''m not disappointed by anything, I''ve only been surprised by the amount of pressure that surrounds the team. I see the positive side of these high expectations, but it''s too much in my opinion - a little too much, he says.

 

Tel Aviv really reminds us of Miami, he adds, summing up his impressions of his new home. My wife and daughter feel comfortable here, and that''s the most important thing for me - to go play knowing that things are okay for them. In two months my wife''s family and my own will come visit, and we''ll travel around the country.

 

The one thing that bothers him is the lack of time to indulge in his other passion - incidentally, one shared by Ray Allen - golf.

 

It''s hard for me to find time to play with there being two practices a day. A few times I almost went, then gave in to being tired, he says.

 

When asked why he left the arena with a security escort following a recent Maccabi win over Nahariya, Arroyo closes up once more.

 

You''re asking too many questions. I''m not going to answer that.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1037006.html

[Gerbert d'Aurillac 0]

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Originally posted by angelitus:

Y no solo estuvo 2 veces entre los top 10 sino que una de esas fue la #1 con el no-look pass.

 

Espero que continue con esa energia.

 

*ON REPORT*

 

Encouraging Jihad.

[Ishtar 0]

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Originally posted by DrAcO Is In ThE DeAtHrOw!:

According to Arroyo, before I arrive somewhere I like to know everything about it. And when I get there I try to learn about everyone, about the leaders.

 

 

 

Imelda merely shopped for shoes...

[Jameera Nelshon 3]

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DrAcO Is In ThE DeAtHrOw!:

 

Our very own Ray Allen

 

By Haaretz Correspondent and Staff , By Yaniv Orgad

 

 

 

Carlos Arroyo, the most highly-paid player in Maccabi Tel Aviv history, is a tough interviewee. The point man''s pedantic, meticulous nature have earned him dubious comparisons with the Boston Celtics'' Ray Allen - one of the sharpest shooters to ever grace the NBA. Allen has been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder and owns a key to every NBA arena so he can arrive at practice early to perfect his flawless form.

 

Arroyo, the 29-year-old guard for the Puerto Rican national team, relates with pride how he took a number of courses during his seven seasons in the NBA on how to deal with the media. Advertisement

 

 

I know how to identify a question, I''m not dumb. You come with negative questions to try and bring out information on what''s going on behind the scenes. That''s why I won''t answer any question that I feel isn''t going in the right direction, he says.

 

The media also gets caught up with little things. I''ve never come across negativity like this.

 

Arroyo says he struggled with a number of concerns before landing in Tel Aviv to work out his record $2.5 million annual contract. Not about the money, of course, or even about going -FROM- third-string point man in Orlando to shot-caller on last year''s second-place finisher in Europe. Rather, his doubts stemmed -FROM- the fact that knew next to nothing about Israel.

 

Suspicions seem to have gone both ways. Maccabi managers were taken aback by stories they had heard about Arroyo''s punctiliousness, and worried they had acquired a younger version of Allen.

 

Both Arroyo and Allen, it turned out, are workaholics who expect perfection -FROM- their teammates, have a fondness for sporting fine suits before and after games and ask a few too many questions, on and off the court.

 

Carlos is so fussy that it''s sometimes a little tiring, says a Maccabi official.

 

According to Arroyo, before I arrive somewhere I like to know everything about it. And when I get there I try to learn about everyone, about the leaders. Israel is definitely an interesting experience for me.

 

But even Arroyo knows he isn''t here on an anthropological mission, but to lead a team with sky-high expectations, which in its first two months of play this season has failed to rise above the clouds.

 

Arroyo has thus far acquitted himself passably, but not spectacularly - 16.3 points and five rebounds per game in the Euroleague, 13.5 points and three assists per game in domestic play.

 

His numbers are better than those of his predecessor, Will Bynum, and Arroyo is blessedly free of Bynum''s off-court antics, which included a court date for an alleged hit-and-run outside a Tel Aviv nightclub.

 

And Bynum played beside competent players like Terrence Morris, Nikola Vujcic and Yotam Halperin (the last two now at Olympiacos), so a bad day for him did not necessarily mean a bad day for the entire team.

 

By contrast, when Arroyo went 2 for 13 in the opening game of the Euroleague against Cibona, Maccabi lost. When he raised his game in the next two contests, the team prevailed.

 

I have it good here and all of my earlier worries have disappeared. I''m not disappointed by anything, I''ve only been surprised by the amount of pressure that surrounds the team. I see the positive side of these high expectations, but it''s too much in my opinion - a little too much, he says.

 

Tel Aviv really reminds us of Miami, he adds, summing up his impressions of his new home. My wife and daughter feel comfortable here, and that''s the most important thing for me - to go play knowing that things are okay for them. In two months my wife''s family and my own will come visit, and we''ll travel around the country.

 

The one thing that bothers him is the lack of time to indulge in his other passion - incidentally, one shared by Ray Allen - golf.

 

It''s hard for me to find time to play with there being two practices a day. A few times I almost went, then gave in to being tired, he says.

 

When asked why he left the arena with a security escort following a recent Maccabi win over Nahariya, Arroyo closes up once more.

 

You''re asking too many questions. I''m not going to answer that.

 

Nice article there. The best part is where the reporter says that: " Both Arroyo and Allen, it turned out, are workaholics who expect perfection -FROM- their teammates". It's a shame the Magic let go a player like that!