New Jersey Nets guard Deron Williams is over in Turkey, playing pro basketball for Beskitas, and he’s blogging about the whole experience on his website. Here’s a quick excerpt:
This is my first year playing international ball, so I’m still just trying to figure everything out with regard to my role. Obviously I’ve played in the Olympics with the same style of play, but that was still different because all of my teammates were American. They’ve actually been playing me at the two guard a lot here. Whatever I can do to help the team, I’m willing. I don’t have any personal goals or stats I’m looking for over here; I just want to stay in shape, play basketball and have fun.
Williams is a big point guard, and he is a very good shooter, so him spending some time playing the two-guard position could be an interesting development -- we’ll see if Williams comes back from his European sojurn with any new wrinkles to his game at the NBA level. For more on Williams’ thoughts on how his coach only occasionally yells in Turkish during practices, how Deron didn’t realize the importance of team colors when he came to Turkey, and Turkish life in general, click through and read the full blog post.
