The Once and Future Aaron Brooks - In yesterday’s post-practice interview, Jeremy Lin revealed that Aaron Brooks gives exactly the kind of veteran advice you would expect to hear from Aaron Brooks. “Like for example, in the Golden State game at halftime, I was talking to him like, ‘How do you counteract someone so explosive offensively as Steph Curry?’ And he was saying, ‘You have got to attack him. Get him in foul trouble. If he’s on his heels then you’re going to neutralize a lot of what he does just by attacking him on the (sic) defensive end.”
Of course the defense he is referring to would be Curry’s defense. This is classic Aaron Brooks–saying the best way to slow down a great scorer is to make said scorer work to defend you. We have one more game against Golden State this year to see a conscience-free shootout between Brooks and Curry. The basketball gods of Order forbid it. The basketball gods of Chaos are drooling.
The Working Man’s Kevin McHale – One reporter asked the coach about the players having a couple days to “recharge,” unwittingly opening the door for a basketball sermon.
“I guess I’m way too old,” McHale said. “You’re playing basketball for a living. Recharge your batteries? Every morning you should get up and get on your knees and thank God you are playing basketball for a living. Someone is actually paying you–in some cases, millions and millions, and in other cases hundreds of thousands at the minimum–to play basketball.
“If you have to recharge your batteries, to play basketball…I understand recharging my batteries if I’ve done three double shifts, I’m laying cement, and then I come home. I understand that. I don’t understand–recharge your batteries for what? To be able to come out here and play basketball for a living? If you have to do that, you’re in the wrong sport. You’re doing the wrong thing. This is a high energy game that requires total commitment, but it’s a joy to play. It’s fun.”
If McHale had been holding a mic, he would have dropped it and walked off the stage.
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