I don’t know what to tell you. I have never seen this. It is not often that a guy is going to play four games, the best you are going to see, and nobody knows who he is. That is hard to do.
2:50 — Twitter has already blown up about Blake’s dunk. @Jose3030 gets the video up in eight minutes. Dozens of players have stacked exclamation points and every courtside reporter has quickly tweeted off his best approximation of orgasm-by-140-characters. The first animated GIF makes the rounds before five minutes of actual game time have elapsed. By the two-minute mark, hundreds of eulogies for Perkins have been written. Somewhere, a twee blogger who values his childhood too much is writing a series of haikus. The Blake Show doesn’t air on ESPN or KCAL9 or Prime West Ticket. It airs on social media.
You come into a season and see the talent on your roster and you immediately think the game is going to be easier for you; you expect certain things to happen. You have to work the game, no one can come in and automatically be great at something.
I think I’m starting to figure things out. We have the scorers, but at the same time, we have to figure out how we can complement each other on the court. Right now, it’s times when we both pay attention too much when we’re on the court together. But as soon as one of us comes out, we say, ‘OK, it’s time to be aggressive.’ We’ve got to find a balance when we’re both on the court. Who’s going to be aggressive, and if we’re both going to be aggressive, how do we keep each other in the flow of the game? Tonight was a good step for that. We both felt in a good rhythm.
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LeBron James after the Heat blew out the Wizards on November 29, 2010, 105-94.
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Today’s athlete, perhaps more than those of yesteryear, requires particular care and cultivation. He wants to feel involved, craves communication. Smart, 46, says he grasps the significance…. “I constantly talk to guys. I have to,” Smart says. “Maybe if I was Phil Jackson or Pat Riley or Larry Brown or Jerry Sloan — a coach who has been successful for a long time — maybe I wouldn’t have to. But I think it’s important that I do.
