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Ermal Kuqo - Efes Pilsen Well, after four Top 16 weeks and four losses in as many games, here I am again, trying and wanting to share with everybody who reads this the feeling of defeat and disappointment. I am not very downbeat when it comes to the defeats, but rather I am very upset with the disappointments those defeats brought along. You see, we've been defeated before and of course afterwards I've felt pain, and anger. But I had never experienced the feeling of disappointment, whether in myself or in my teammates. This time is different, though. After losing to Prokom at home, I wasn't even mad or angry. I just couldn't believe that my presence on the court didn't mean anything to my team, that for the time I spent on the court I couldn't do anything to help my teammates win the game. The Top 16 is probably the most exciting time of the Euroleague season, in my opinion, and it kills me that Efes Pilsen couldn't be a part of that excitement, or bring some of it to its fans, who by the way were simply great at the game against Panathinaikos last week. It's the first time in a while that we are not among the best eight teams in Europe, and it's a very unfamiliar feeling, an unknown territory for the club's management, coaches, players and, of course, its fans. The important thing for us now is that we have to get back on our feet and try to...
Ermal Kuqo - Istanbul, Turkey
février 13, 2007
Ermal Kuqo - Efes Pilsen OK, now I'm worried. David Vanterpool is out for the whole Top 16, and he had just finished writting his blog a couple of days ago, where he actually underlined the blogger's jinx. I'm equally excited and worried to be doing this, since I do believe in jinxes and bad luck brought to athletes by doing something out of the ordinary, such as cutting your nails or you hair on game day (I think Norgy already mentioned this in one of his earlier blogs). And there is more to it when it comes to me: I guess after hearing this you will all think that I'm a freak. When playing at home, I always have to be the first player from the team to enter the locker room, and the first to shoot two layups (first right, then left). I always put on my right shoe first, and I always step on the court with my right foot first. There is also some other stuff I will not tell you about, because I think I might actually scare you off. On the road, I have to be the first player getting on the bus and the first to get off when we arrive at the arena. I have a certain routine of doing things before a game, and I do belive that it's important to me doing it this way since it helps me get focused better. Anyway, after reading all this, you can understand why I would actually be worried about the blogger's bad luck. I am just going to think that the...
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