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The development of the 22-year-old O’Bryant has been slow since he signed as a free agent last summer, and the team is essentially treating him as a rookie.

Or as a boot camp inductee. That’s how it came together yesterday, after Garnett put two empty sneakers to the left of the basket and started rotating and cutting with the ball to demonstrate his footwork.

Assistant coach Clifford Ray attempted to feed O’Bryant in the post as Garnett bumped the youngster with forearms to the chest, grabs at the neck and waist and anything else to make the backup center react.

“No foul,” said Garnett, staring O’Bryant down after one particularly heavy hack. “No foul, no foul, no foul.”

And then this: “Do whatever I’m doin’.”

O’Bryant finally scored, and this time Garnett looked at Ray and said, “If he scores this is over.”

O’Bryant was then pinned by the two long, wiry tree roots that Garnett calls arms. Ray’s first two entry passes never reached O’Bryant. Garnett pawed them away that easily.

O’Bryant finally scored off a rain-making lob, losing Garnett with a sidestep before dunking the ball.

But it wasn’t over. Garnett stood, his face inches from O’Bryant’s under the basket, and he again pushed the kid in the chest and pointed his fingertips at his own temples.

Judging from the uneasy, hesitant look on O’Bryant’s face, he had no idea what was coming.

So Garnett scooped up the ball and dunked, swinging off the rim and landing right in front of O’Bryant. Then he repeated the violent motion.

“This is how I feel - this is how I feel,” he said before finally allowing O’Bryant to leave.

“Then there’s nothing like going out and showing what you can do. I’m not Patrick O’Bryant, but I’m in here every day. If these guys want to get better, then I’m here. Kevin McHale always told me that if you want to impress me, then go out and show it. So that’s what I go by.”

“That’s just his style,” he added of Garnett’s oral and physical aggression. “That’s his reputation in the league, and some people say I need to work on things, so this is good. We’ve done a few of these.”

Scalamental wrote:KG is scary crazy.

Scalamental wrote:KG is scary crazy.

Prophet_C wrote:Maybe this is the sort of treatment he needs and maybe it'll wake him up. Did he have players in GS getting in his face and calling him out?

Prophet_C wrote:Maybe this is the sort of treatment he needs and maybe it'll wake him up. Did he have players in GS getting in his face and calling him out?

SuigintouEV wrote:

Prophet_C wrote:Maybe this is the sort of treatment he needs and maybe it'll wake him up. Did he have players in GS getting in his face and calling him out?

For sure

B.D. - "Okay Pat, today I'ma show you how to chuck. The art of chucking means dribbling out the shot clock with 20 seconds to go, lifting one of your legs 18 feet from the basket, fading to the side, and bricking the shot. Man trust me when these shots go in, the fans love it!"
Steven Jackson. - "Ae Patrickkkkkk, i'ma teach you how to shoot tadae! Let's start off with 3s mang, you gotta be outside the 3 point line. remember the key is volume. If you only shoot 3 times, what are the chances you make one? Naw mang, you gotta shoot at least 8 times a game, that way at least one might go in. and if two go in, hey we got ourselves a ballgame! Okay next i'm going to teach how to shoot the nine. Before aiming at the other team, aim at the sky to set off a warning. It's like a heat check. But speaking of heat, hust watch out for them, they can even arrest you for that!"
Al Harrington - "They key to defense is don't play it, it just makes you tired, what you need to be doin is shooting 3s."
Andris Biedrins - "I want you to listen to me patri--" Don Nelson - "That's ENOUGH OF THIS ANDRIS. No teaching him valuable things to be a center. What if he learned to play center?! Then I wouldn't have playing time for him!!!!!! Go practice some 3s Pat... Throw in a sky hook from 24 feet while you're at it."

GREEN8 wrote:Cs should talk to the Mavs. I'm sure you can get Green back for O'Bryant. Not so sure Dallas would agree. Tough to teach Green defense on that team (KG would haunt Gerald) but certainly an upgrade over POB.