[外電] Inside Training Camp: October 6, 2004
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Inside Training Camp: October 6, 2004
Head Coach Byron Scott
(on how much longer his voice will last in practice)
Probably another day or so as far as raising it. It’ll
be okay at the normal level for a while but as far as
raising it, it’ll probably leave me in a couple of days.
(on if the second day of practice was harder than
the first)
No, I don’t think so. I thought it was just as intense,
just as hard. I didn’t think it was any harder. I thought
it was equally as hard today as it was yesterday.
(on how long it takes him to get a good assessment of his
team)
It doesn’t take long. After about two or three days, you
get a pretty good idea of things you have to work on or
give a little bit more time to. I had a good chance last
night to watch yesterday’s practice on tape and came out
today and the first thing we do when we come into practice
the next day is talk about yesterday. I talked about some
of the key things from yesterday and some of the things we
need to improve on and then we try to put those things in
place today along with the rest of our game plan as far as
practices are concerned. Again, I thought today was pretty
good. We’re going to continue to work just like we worked
today to get better in a couple of areas that I think we
need to improve on.
(on what he hopes to have in place and if he’s going to
put a lot in before his first preseason game)
It’s not a lot of stuff. Each day we just try to gradually
put in things we have been doing the last couple of days so
these guys aren’t overloade. That’s the one thing I
don’t want to do. I don’t want to overload them. I want
to give them just a little bit at a time and hope, by next
week, that everybody feels pretty comfortable and confident
in what we’re doing. That’s the thing right now is have
familiarity and getting these guys in a comfort level. Right
now, guys sometimes are running around like they have their
heads cut off it seems like. I’ve got to get guys to be a
little bit more patient and slow down a little bit more.
(on how long the practices will be during the regular season)
Anywhere from an hour and a half to two hours. It probably
won’t be as much running and conditioning drills. It’s
more focusing in on both ends of the court, offensively and
defensively. You just try to get those things in and you
try to get your guys to a comfort level because almost
every day during the season we’re going to be putting in
new stuff too.
(on if he’s trying to send a message with his tough
training camp)
I’m not trying to send a message. This is me. This is my
camp. This is how I run my basketball camp. I’m not
trying to send a message to anybody out there in
particular. I’m just trying to tell the guys this is what
I’m used to doing and this is how we work as a staff and
this is how I want you guys to work as players. We’re
here everyday from eight in the morning to five or six in
the afternoon and then, even though I left at five
yesterday, I went home and watched tapes. We’re
committed as a staff and we want our players to be
committed as well.
(on if Jamaal Magloire can fill the role of second
offensive option on the team)
I hope so. I think he has a lot of room to grow and
improve. There’s not doubt about that. I do think he’ll
have better numbers that he did last year. I think this
time he’ll see a lot more opportunity in the offense than
he has seen in the past as well. It’s just up to him to
come with that type of attitude that he’s going to have a
much better year than he did last year.
(on if he feels the team can be competitive and make the
playoffs in the West)
I think we have enough talent to be competitive. Making the
playoffs is a different story. I don’t know. I think we
have enough it just depends on how fast our growth is, to
be honest with you. To me that’s not the challenge. My
challenge is winning a championship here. Making the
playoffs is not something that I’m looking at as something
that’s fantastic. I think we have enough to make the
playoffs here and I think we have enough to play a lot
better than people have given us credit for.
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Forward David West
(on training camp)
It’s going all right. We’re getting in here and getting
our work done, learning and progressing.
(on what he heard about Coach Scott’s training camp
during the offseason)
I talked to him this summer and he said we were going to
come in here and we’re going to work. I figured that it
was going to be something like this. Talking to other
guys throughout the summer, we kind of knew what was
coming and we kind of knew what to expect. I work hard
in the offseason anyway so I’m not one of these guys who
gets out of shape or anything like that. I knew I was
going to stay with my same regiment and routine.
(on being more aggressive on the offensive end)
I think it’s more or less a mentality that I’ve got to
set early and establish now because there are going the
be a lot of different situations and a lot of
opportunities to score out here and it makes other guys
jobs easier when there are other threats on the floor.
(on the more aggressive and running style of play)
It’s something that’s good as long as we’re running
with a purpose and getting good shots. We’ll find a
way in terms of opportunities on the offensive glass
and things like that. We know we’re going to have to
get up and down the floor, but like I said you’re going
to have to do it with a purpose. You can’t be running
just to run.
(on if it’s a big deal the Hornets are moving to the
Western Conference)
Everybody is making a big deal out of it. The East won
the championship last year. You look at the teams out
in the West. When we played those teams last year, we
didn’t feel like we were out of it. We’re returning
with the same core group of guys and I think guys have
a different outlook in terms of what we’re expecting
this season. I’m not really looking at it as being a
mountain we can’t climb. We’ll be fine.
(on the difference between his first and second year
in training camp)
You know what to expect. That’s the biggest thing I
think. I know exactly what to expect in terms of games
and how fast game is. The first year in the NBA is
basically about adjustments. No matter what, you’ve got
to get adjusted to playing against grown men, playing, in
some cases, every other night and the travel. On thing I
told Tim (Pickett) is that you’ve got to pace yourself.
You’ve got to understand this thing is long. We’re going
to be doing this for the next seven months so you’ve got
to pace yourself. The older guys know what to expect and
you can see it when we’re out there playing.
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