[外電] Inside Training Camp: October 11, 2004
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Inside Training Camp: October 11, 2004
Head Coach Byron Scott
(on focusing his energy on the first preseason game)
Yeah, I’m looking forward to it. It gives me a chance to see
these guys against a different opponent instead of seeing
ourselves against each other. I think everybody’s looking
forward to it. I think the players are. I think they’re a
little tired of beating up on each other and going against
each other every single day but, again, it’s something that
we need putting in a whole new system. These guys are getting
pretty familiar with it and they’re a lot further along right
now than I expected to be at this particular time so I’m
happy about that.
(on the speech in the huddle after practice by Armstrong,
Davis and himself)
I think what brought that upon us was a couple of the young
guys had something to say to Coach Walker under their breath
but he heard them and the message I think is pretty clear by
Darrell and Baron. We’ve got a great staff here and all four
of us are pretty much an old school staff so we’re not going
to take anything from anybody on this team. I think the veteran
guys understood that and they’re trying to make it known to
these younger guys that whatever we say goes and you have to
listen to us. The one thing about us as coaches is that we’re
not going to tell them anything that’s going to hurt them.
We’re here to help them because if we can help them, then it
helps us as a staff as well so we’re all just trying to be
positive and help each other out as well.
(on how much of the offense will be seen on Wednesday)
About 20 percent of it. That’s it. And you’ll probably see
that 20 percent throughout the preseason. I won’t put a lot
of the stuff in that we’ll be running during the game. We’ll
do all that stuff in practice to get ready for game 1 of the
regular season. I don’t want teams that are going to be
scouting us, Dallas being one of those teams because we play
them the first game of the season. I don’t want to put
everything in now and try to run everything in the first game
so they get a good look at everything. They’re going to get
one set, basically. That’s it. But that one set has 15 or 20
variations to it.
(on injured players Rodney Rogers and David Wesley that sat
out today’s practice)
Rodney is day-to-day and so is David. Both guys have
hamstring problems. I’m very familiar with hamstring injuries
so the last thing I’m going to do is push those guys. David
said he’s never had an injury like this. It’s probably
pretty minor but I’m going to be extra cautious with David
and Rodney at this particular point.
(on David West and his progression)
On watching him last year, I thought he was a pretty
good-looking rookie. I thought he did some real good things.
I see the same things now that I saw last year but just
better. And it seems like he’s doing it with more confidence.
The one thing that I didn’t see last year was that he could
put the ball on the floor as well as he can and he’s really
an excellent passer so those are two things that I see now
that impress me. I really like what I see in David West. I
think he’s going to be a great guy. I’m telling him to shoot
the ball. He has a good touch from 17, 18 feet and I’m telling
him to look for that shot on a consistent basis and if he does
and he knocks it down on a consistent basis, it makes him a
much more dangerous basketball player.
(on Chris Andersen)
I knew “Bird” was as athletic as any guy we have here. I knew
he could block shots and I knew he was a heck of a defender.
But offensively, I didn’t know how well he shot the ball and
that’s been the big pleasant surprise that I’ve gotten from
him. He’s very, very energetic like I knew he would be. He
brings it every single day. You’ve got to love that. He runs
the floor better than any big man in this league probably. From
him, the one thing that I wasn’t thinking about was getting
offensive productivity but I think now, watching him in practice,
we’re going to definitely be able to use him on the offensive
end as well.
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Forward/Center Chris Andersen
(on getting his chance to show his offensive and defensive sides)
Yeah, definitely coming from the Rocky Mountains and coming
back down to sea level, I’m able to do what I did back in
college and just run.
(on if he wants to be more aggressive offensively)
It just depends on what the offense or defense gives because
it’s a read offense. Whatever coach wants us to do is what
we’re going to do.
(on if the Hornets are good enough to win in the West)
Definitely. The teams have equaled out. I’ve gone against KG
in the playoffs and I did pretty well against him. I’m used
to playing against most of those guys in the West. I’ve
already got a little bit of an advantage on that.
(on matching up against Magloire in practice)
It’s going really good. It’s helping me out and helping him
out as well because he’s got some good moves and I’m just
trying to push him to his limits and he’s pushing me to mine
and it’s just making us a better team.
(on what areas in which he feels he’s improving)
Definitely my jump shooting because I meant to work on that
all summer and I did and now I’m getting to a groove.
Whenever I have a coach that is confident in my shot and I’m
confident in it then it’s going to fall.
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