What are the main differences between European basketball and American basketball that youve seen?
Jaycee: It seems like in European basketball, there’s a lot more emphasis on team and what we have to do to stop a team from beating us. In the States, it seems like there’s a lot of emphasis on individual players and what it would take to stop an individual player in order to beat a team. I played at Utah State, where team was emphasized a ton, but there are some different rules and different ways they call things that I’ve had to adjust to. They call traveling a little differently over here than in the States. It took me all of preseason to kind of figure out that I can’t do some of the things I was able to do at Utah State because of the way they call traveling. Goaltending’s a little bit different, too, so there’s a few different rules that take some adjusting to. How have the Italian fans reacted to your success? Jaycee: The fans have been great, they’ve really welcomed us in to Teramo. When Bella was born, they had a huge banner up in the stands that said, “Welcome Baby Bella,” a
