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So when Mitchell whined to the European media in a conference call last week that holding training camp overseas was an inconvenience, a distraction, and everything else, Gherardini felt somewhat disappointed — and naturally so.

Mitchell, however, is now singing a totally different tune — to the extent that if the Treviso Chamber of Commerce needed an English-speaking spokesperson, he’d be the perfect guy.

“I would recommend to any NBA team that if you have the opportunity to go abroad for training camp for a couple of weeks, you should do it,” he said yesterday.

Talk about an about-face.