The time when he was one of the Warriors’ top scorers seems very distant… Since his promising rookie season (14 points on average) during the Californians’ black season in 2020, Eric Paschal is on the slippery slope. Surprisingly “bazardous” by the future NBA champions, he had a last discreet exercise at the Jazz.
A time announced at Panathinaikos, he finally found an opening with Wolves this summer. Not without having squarely thought… to throw in the towel. ” I had the feeling of not being at my best mentally, being worn out. Like: ‘I could quit playing basketball’ », confides the 25-year-old playermarked by a “free agency” less animated for him than he imagined.
” You see the other players being recruited and you don’t get a call. You call your agent every day. So I was at a point where I thought I could retire “Recalls the small interior (1.98 meters), who says he was able to count on the support of his friend, and former teammate in Utah, Donovan Mitchell. The latter, finally transferred to Cleveland, experienced a much more turbulent “free agency” but was attentive ” almost every day “.
” If I stopped playing, what was I going to be able to do? That was the real question. I didn’t know what I was going to do. I was like, ‘Damn, I don’t even have a plan.’ And then I said to myself that I was still in my best years, I am 25 years old. But it proves that the issue of mental health is real. There have been good days, bad days “, Still testifies the player who had to be satisfied with a “two-way contract” from Wolves.
Author of a first anecdotal outing in preseason (1 point in 13 minutes), Eric Paschall, who finds Rudy Gobert in the racket of Wolves, ensures that it was not easy to accept this kind of precarious contract. “ I must have had a lot of tough conversations about it. But I feel like I’m in a good place now. I’m quite happy to be here he confirms in conclusion.
