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Bennett Says Confidence Allowing Him to Shine in FIBA

Basketball Insiders

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Updated 2 years ago on October 15, 2021 • 1 min read

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Seated in the front row, an international reporter searched for the appropriate words to make an uncomfortable but fair observation, one that caught others off guard but hardly made (Anthony) Bennett flinch.

“You play so different in the NBA and in FIBA,” the reporter pointed out. “You are a lot better in FIBA. Why?”

“[I’m] just playing with confidence, pretty much,” the 22-year-old forward responded. “Just going out there, playing defence, running the court. Just doing the little things first and trying to make offence come to me.”

Source: Josh Lewenberg of TSN

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