Training Camp

[spectre]

Augustin needs confidence to keep Bobcats’ PG job - Mike Cranston

Good piece on DJ.

[ND22]

Augustin needs confidence to keep Bobcats’ PG job - Mike Cranston

Good piece on DJ.

Good read, and on point.

Was just up there by the way, the team is practicing (closed door of course) but my buddy on the team told me he took a piss next to Tyrus Thomas, which actually, is as awesome as it sounds. Tyrus walked in the bathroom and yelled, "What up boy!?"

[Plowright]

Gotta love TT.

[BlockParty]

I know everyone is excited to see shaun Livingston this year, me included. However is anyone worried that we have invested $ 3.5 mil for the next 3 years in someone who is still affected by this injury so badley, i mean i thought since he played for the Wiz last year he was healthy now, but if he is needing an ice pack all the time then there is no way he can be our starting PG.

I actually think it's $7M over 2 years...hopefully it's just the Bobcats being extra-cautious. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slu...ats-livingston

I feel this could be a good pic to caption.

[SWedd523]

3.5 for 2 years with a third year unguaranteed at the same price

[G-Force]

Found some news videos of training camp, nothing indepth, just a look at the environment and what not. Similar to the pics ND22

http://www.wwaytv3.com/video/bobcats...g_camp_uncw/09

http://charlotte.news14.com/content/...-in-wilmington

[G-Force]

Serious?! How did this guy get a spot in Training camp? He's from a Division II, with a recent knee injury, and looks underside to be C.

Is his dad a close friend of Larry Brown?

[BlockParty]

[IMG]
Is his dad a close friend of Larry Brown?

Almost, his College Coach played for Larry Brown at Kansas: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/201...e-belongs.html

[BlockParty]

Bonnell's random thoughts for today:
http://blogs.charlotte.com/inside_th...ats-style.html

Ten things worth noting from the evening scrimmage in the first day of Charlotte Bobcats training camp:

1. Former Wizards and Sixers coach Eddie Jordan was hanging out on court for both Tuesday practices, even working with Shaun Livingston on his shot at the end of the evening session. The Bobcats say he's here as a visitor, and that's plausible. Remember, Larry Brown spent a ton of time at other coaches' practices after the Knicks let him go, and said it was really educational. It's not as if there's an open staff position. Just kinda interesting.

2. For those of you preoccupied with starting Tyrus Thomas: He's second-team, behind Boris Diaw, but gets some reps with the anticipated starters (D.J. Augustin, Stephen Jackson, Gerald Wallace and Nazr Mohammed). I've said it before, I'll say it again: If Diaw is here, he should start, but spend many of his minutes in positions other than power forward.

3. The apparent second-team was Shaun Livingston, Gerald Henderson, Derrick Brown, Thomas and Gana Diop. However shooting guard Matt Carroll and combo-forward Darius Miles gets some reps with this group.

4. There were moments -- brief ones -- when Brown experimented with Mohammed and Diop being in the game together. I doubt you'd see that much in games, but it's good they're practicing what they might do if the opposing team goes super-big. (And the options multiply when Kwame Brown recovers from that ankle sprain).

5. I was in my right mind when I wrote the following: Diop looks in good shape. He said at media day he lost 15 pounds over the summer, and he ran the court well throughout the scrimmage. Miles and Diop hooked up on a pretty lob pass-to-dunk almost immediately in the 5-on-5 session.

6. I'm glad the Bobcats brought Miles to camp, and he can still play. But, barring a bunch of injuries, I don't see how he'll make the team. Right now, he's a luxury without a guaranteed contract. He can't practice all the time because of his knee. He's now more a finesse player than an explosion player. I wish for his sake there was a team in more dramatic need for his talent because he's still good enough to make an NBA roster. Maybe just not this one.

7. To those of us who travel for a living, "Up in the Air'' is hilariously dry wit (though the book is better than the movie). I don't know why anyone else would get it.

7. (Do-over, because that wasn't about the Bobcats): Javaris Crittenton is intriguing, both in talent and in skill. That will get him tryouts forever. But I'm not sure he does any one thing well enough to make this team. He's not quite a point guard in approach, nor gifted enough as a shooting guard, to make a living as a combo guard. In other words, he's no Flip Murray.

8. The new kid, Division II guy Matt Rogers, is fun to watch in a Jake Voskuhl way. He's just skilled and long-limbed enough to mess people up. In fact, if he develops Jake's hockey-goon mentality, this is how his career would go: Two months in the D-League, a call-up somewhere (Timberwolves?), then five one-year contracts with five team, after which you retire rich.

9. If Brown says Dominic McGruire is a sleeper, then he's a sleeper. But I'll warn you: The guy has one ugly-looking jump shot.

10. Some of you say Matt Carroll and D.J. Augustin are the only dependable long-range shooters on this team. if you're saying Augustin is better than everyone else, then fine, but don't pair them: Carroll would undress Augustin in a shooting contest.

[G-Force]

LMAO at #9:

9. If Brown says Dominic McGruire is a sleeper, then he's a sleeper. But I'll warn you: The guy has one ugly-looking jump shot.


Not a surprise though.