{"id":192561,"date":"2023-09-18T14:58:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/2023\/09\/as-monaco-basket-looks-to-consolidate-and-step-up-a-gear\/"},"modified":"2023-09-18T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:03:15","slug":"as-monaco-basket-looks-to-consolidate-and-step-up-a-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/2023\/09\/as-monaco-basket-looks-to-consolidate-and-step-up-a-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"AS Monaco Basket looks to consolidate and step up a gear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>AS Monaco Basket organised its first press conference of the season, with Kemba Walker in attendance.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Forget the euphoria of a historic season, culminating in a first French league title, a first French Cup and a superb third-place finish in the Euroleague. For the Roca Team, the message is clear: it&#8217;s time for Year II, a new era of consolidation and assertion. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"related\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/2023\/09\/who-is-the-real-aleksej-fedoricsev-president-of-as-monaco-basket\/\">Who is the real Aleksej Fedoricsev, president of AS Monaco Basket?<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;<i>We managed to touch Monegasque hearts during what was a historic season.\u00a0 French champions, French Cup winners, and a place in the Final Four. Sasa Obradovic, the staff, the squad, they all did an extraordinary job,&#8221; <\/i>said Oleksiy Yefimov, general manager of the Roca Team, at a press conference organised at the Gaston-M\u00e9decin sports hall with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/2023\/09\/le-parquet-de-la-salle-gaston-medecin-et-la-pelouse-du-stade-louis-ii-font-peau-neuve\/\">its brand new parquet floor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-kemba-walker-une-star-de-nba-sur-le-rocher\">Kemba Walker, an NBA star on the Rock <\/h2>\n\n<p><i>&#8220;We&#8217;re improving every year. We&#8217;re climbing higher and higher, and that means there&#8217;s more pressure on us. But the guys in the team aren&#8217;t shying away from it. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll do their best to take the club up a notch<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Sasa Obradovic, who is about to experience his third season on the Monaco bench, has the same message.\u00a0 <i>&#8220;We have to approach the new season without thinking about past achievements,&#8221; <\/i>he said.<\/p>\n\n<p><i>&#8220;In my opinion, the Euroleague is even more competitive this year, and expectations of the Roca Team are higher. Preparations have been difficult, with a number of injuries and absences due to the World Cup. But we&#8217;re working hard to be ready for the start of what promises to be an exciting new season<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/yefimov-min-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Yefimov-min\" class=\"wp-image-192097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/yefimov-min-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/yefimov-min-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/yefimov-min.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Oleksiy Yefimov spoke about the Roca Team&#8217;s ambitions this season (Photo \u00a9Romain Boisaubert\/Monaco-Tribune)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>It certainly does. As well as keeping their ambitions intact, with an almost unchanged squad, including stars who have stayed, the Roca Team created a summer sensation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/2023\/07\/kemba-walker-une-star-nba-pose-ses-valises-sur-le-rocher\/\">in July by announcing the signing of three-time All-Star NBA great Kemba Walker<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><i>&#8220;I&#8217;m settling in really well at Monaco, everyone here has given me a warm welcome, including the coach, the staff and the players,&#8221; <\/i>he said, smiling and already at ease for his first press conference in Monaco&#8217;s colours.<i> &#8220;I&#8217;m very excited at the idea of starting to play in Europe and of playing basketball again.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n\n<p><i>&#8220;It was really the greatest opportunity for me to get back into it. I made this choice for myself, it was a gut feeling. The FIBA game is different, with more physical commitment and different refereeing. But basketball is basketball, and I&#8217;m looking forward to it.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-un-mercato-ambitieux-et-des-prolongations-importantes\">Ambitious signings and major renewals <\/h2>\n\n<p>However we&#8217;ll need to wait a little before we see the leading scorer in the history of the Charlotte Hornets (12,009 points), with 750 games in the NBA to his credit, on court at Gaston-M\u00e9decin.<i>\u00a0<\/i>Still recovering from injury and far from his peak form, Kemba Walker is not expected to don the Roca Team shirt for several weeks.<\/p>\n\n<p>Will it be for a first league appearance, or &#8216;just&#8217; in the Euroleague this season?\u00a0 <i>&#8220;Kemba wants to play everywhere, whether it&#8217;s in France or Europe,&#8221; <\/i>said Oleksiy Yefimov. &#8220;<i>He&#8217;s not just a basketball player, he loves the game.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n\n<p><i>&#8220;He just wants a ball in his hands. As for playing only in the Euroleague or also in the league, that will depend on what the medical staff says.&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0Another condition lies with the Betclic Elite board and the National Basketball League, regarding the introduction of a &#8216;luxury tax&#8217; this season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/kemba-walker-3-min-1024x664.jpg\" alt=\"Kemba-Walker-3-min\" class=\"wp-image-192089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/kemba-walker-3-min-1024x664.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/kemba-walker-3-min-463x300.jpg 463w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/kemba-walker-3-min.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kemba Walker was all smiles and already very much at ease as he faced the press for the first time (Photo \u00a9Romain Boisaubert\/Monaco-Tribune)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whether or not we see Kemba Walker playing in the French League will depend on the outcome of ongoing, &#8220;constructive&#8221; talks with the French authorities. But even if the American playmaker only plays in the Euroleague, the Roca Team&#8217;s championship squad will still look very strong, with the likes of Mike James, Elie Okobo, Donatas Motiej\u016bnas and the new recruits who arrived in the off-season. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"related\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/2023\/07\/le-calendrier-de-leuroleague-devoile-decouvrez-les-matchs-de-las-monaco-basket\/\">Euroleague schedule announced with dates for AS Monaco basket matches (French language article)<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/2023\/06\/las-monaco-basket-officialise-sa-premiere-recrue\/\">Terry Tarpey<\/a> (forward), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/2023\/06\/un-pivot-international-francais-rejoint-les-rangs-de-las-monaco-basket\/\">Mam Jaiteh<\/a> (centre), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/2023\/07\/un-champion-deurope-debarque-a-las-monaco-basket\/\">Petr Cornelie<\/a> (forward)\u00a0 have joined Monaco&#8217;s roster along with Kemba Walker as mentioned. In addition, Yakuba Ouattara, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/2020\/02\/portrait-yakuba-ouattara-ou-le-voltigeur-du-rocher\/\">vice-captain and club legend<\/a>, extended his contract. This will provide continuity for a squad that is all set to write a few more pages of history for the Roca Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AS Monaco Basket organised its first press conference of the season, with Kemba Walker in attendance.\u00a0 Forget the euphoria of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":192094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[243,257],"tags":[2833],"post_sectags":[3788],"post_format":[2467],"class_list":["post-192561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports-en","tag-roca-team-en-2","sectag-basketball","format-feature"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AS Monaco 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