Markus Howard landed in Europe last season and since his arrival he has emerged as a compulsive scorer. A player who barely needs a bounce and a centimeter of separation to arm his arm and bomb the rival rim. Top scorer in the Endesa League, second in the Euroleague where he is the top triple scorer, his infinite offensive arguments to become one of the great references of the Old Continent and one of the most coveted pieces of the next summer market.
Meanwhile, he continues to drill hoops with a Baskonia that once again looks up both in the Euroleague and in the domestic competition and does so with the point guard focused on not making the mistakes that caused Vitoria’s collapse in the second half of the season. past.
“It’s our inner fire. No season is perfect. “There are a lot of ups and downs, but we want to use what happened last year, correct and learn from our mistakes.”, the point guard assured Relevo in the presentation of the Endesa League. And despite the irregular start to the season, the Vitorian ship is getting back on track to dream of the playoffs both in Europe and in the ACB. “Learn from mistakes. That’s the thing. I’m sure we’ll do everything we can to try to correct those things.”
Howard has put it into practice from the first minute of this season. Even before. From a preseason in which he doesn’t even know how many shots he could make and that helped him add “different things to the game to make it more difficult for my defenders. I hope I can show everything I’ve been working on”. It was a challenge for him to surprise his rivals again, who had already taken his registration after his first season. And he has solved it.
Records and triples… by the grace of God
The Morristown point guard seems to want to improve himself and after dominating the Euroleague last season as the top scorer since 6.75 in the continental tournament, In December he made history again with 29 three-pointers made throughout the month, thus becoming the player who has scored the most three-pointers in a single month. And the streak continues in a January in which Howard has once again shown that when he is inspired, there are few in Europe like him.
“There are a lot of ups and downs, but we want to use what happened last year, correct and learn from our mistakes”
Markus Howard
“Everything I have would not be possible if it were not for God”. They are the words that have always accompanied him. Since he started playing basketball and since he began to stand out for his ability to score in the opponent’s hoop. “I am grateful for everything he has given me,” he said in a courtside interview after his last NCAA game.
And they are not empty words, which simply remain in the air. For Howard each of them has meaning and he demonstrates it with his actions. As soon as you enter Marquette The first thing he looked for was the nearest chapel so he could pray. He has used the number ‘0’ since his university days to remind himself that without the help of Jesus Christ “he would be nothing.”. Additionally, before each game he reads a Bible verse and prays just before taking the field.
“God is everything. For me that is the basis of what I do. What I have built my life and what I do is thanks to my faith”
Markus Howard
There is more. Howard not only dedicates each of his baskets to God (and there are many throughout the games) but he also gives him part of his work. In his third year of university, after spending the summer in Costa Rica building basketball courts for the most needy communities, the point guard created the Fraternity of Christian Athletes, with whom he began reading the Bible.
“God is everything. For me that is the basis of what I do. What I have built my life and what I do is thanks to my faith. The things in which I have grown up and the things in which I believe,” says a Howard who has recovered his best version to, after the setback of being left without the Copa del Rey, put Baskonia back at the top. “My faith and my foundation are everything. The reason I can do what I can do is because God has given me the possibility. That will never change for me and it will always be my number one.”
Passionate about basketball since he was a child, Guillermo García has managed to make the sport of basketball his profession. Graduated in Humanities from the Carlos III University and with a Master’s degree in Journalism, he began working at Marca in 2003, where he had time to do everything from football to reports and opinion, including the closing section. In 2011 he began as an editor on the official NBA website in Spanish and since then he has covered basketball information with special attention to what is happening in the United States. In addition, he has covered two Eurobasket, two World Cups and two Olympic Games, along with a multitude ACB playoffs, NBA and Euroleague Final Four games. He has also been able to interview figures from other sports such as Usain Bolt, Simone Biles or Armand Duplantis. …
2024-01-22 15:38:42
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