He is covering for American centre Amir Williams who arrives on April 3.
"I would love to stay here," he says, keeping his fingers crossed that if the Hawks don't keep him some other NBL team will, otherwise his agent is working on finding him an SEABL (Australia) team.
However, the Hawks are on a 22-game losing streak dating back to 2015 after a winless winter last year.
They came agonisingly close to ending the drought last Sunday in round two.
The Hawks, amped up with Tall Blacks point guard Jarrod Kenny's arrival on Tuesday from Perth, will fancy their chances of throwing the monkey off their backs in the 3pm tip off at the PG Arena tomorrow.
Co-skippers Kenny, who is coming off a high after his Wildcats claimed the ANBL crown, and Everard Bartlett will be looking to spin some magic for a unit still trying to iron out their system.
Four-season Hawks shooting guard Alonzo Burton, of Napier, will be in the opposition ranks tomorrow and should add some spice after scoring 14 points last weekend.
The visitors have had the wood on the Hawks in their previous outings but history favours the hosts.
Fiorentinos says the overtime spell last Sunday would have been different had Kenny been here to marshal the floor.
"If we had a true starter point guard we would have won last Sunday so I just can't wait to play this Sunday," he says, adding the lack of experience was accentuated in overtime against the Rams.
Nevertheless, Taranaki will be smarting after James Blond Supercity Rangers beat them 85-81 in New Plymouth last night although there will be the fatigue factor where as the Hawks have had a rest the entire week.
Fiorentinos was born in Cape Town but left when aged 5 with his parents, Debbie and Anthony Fiorentinos, heading to England where his father worked in the software industry for eight years.
When the job ended the family moved to Sweden but by that stage Fiorentinos was slipping on the Great Britain singlet as an age-group representative.
However, he left Sweden for Florida in the United States, where he played basketball while attending high school. A year later he went to New Jersey where he attended Hun School of Princeton and gained a full scholarship to play basketball at Tulane University in his freshman year in New Orleans.
He ended up in Southern Illinois University where he graduated in communications in May last year.
"The dream is like anyone else who plays basketball - to make it to the NBA at the highest level if I can get there, otherwise I want to play at the highest level I can possibly play."
Fiorentinos is enjoying the dual citizenship of his English mother and South African father.
Growing up he played cricket, rugby, soccer and swam but a sudden growth spurt took the guesswork out of what he should gravitate towards at the age of 13.
"I started growing really, really fast and I noticed I was the tallest person in the class. It was four inches like crazy," he says, revealing he had growing pains that led to numerous medical checks. "Basketball came very, very easy but I was still quick from the other sports."
If he had any doubts, one day he was watching the Hollywood movie, Space Jam, based on NBA legend Michael Jordan, and the dial was turned to overdrive on wanting to slip on oversized shorts to shimmy and fake.
He is an avid rugby fan and supports the Springboks but also loves the All Blacks.
"Their passion and their warrior dance [haka] are some things I bring into my basketball when I go to war out there in the game," he says, revealing that's where his hype comes from at game time.
It isn't easy coming into the fray in a team that is seeking any kind of win but Fiorentinos relishes the challenge of proving doubters wrong.
"We are the underdogs but last weekend we were missing two key players and have another big man coming from America, so last Sunday wasn't our full team - I can't wait to prove people wrong."
Referees Melony Welleans, Jason McCabe and Rhys Hamilton will have their work cut out.
