Practice No. 1 done: The new era begins in Mankato
Posted on September 29th, 2009 – 2:28 PM
By Jerry Zgoda
The Wolves took the floor for Kurt Rambis for the first time this morning at — where else? — the Taylor Center in a 2 1/2-workout which didn’t flow as quickly as the new coach had hoped.
He focused mostly on installing aspects of his fast-break offense — which will include aspects of the triangle offense but isn’t the triangle offense, if you get what I mean — and touched only briefly on defense.
David Kahn pointed this out: Rambis opened practice with a series of drills included one of batting balls off the backboard that former Lakers coach Pat Riley used to call the “Rambis drill.”
The surgically repaired knees of Al Jefferson and Corey Brewer appeared to hold up fine.
“I was just happy to put on a uniform today and come out here and practice,” Brewer said. “I hadn’t practiced for real in a long time. For me and Al, it was good for both of us.”
Afterward, Jefferson said it was not his knee that proved troublesome and said he’ll use this preseason to get his conditioning improved as he recovers from February knee surgery.
“It felt real good, real good,” Jefferson said. “It’s more about my lungs than anything. My knee felt great. It feels good to be back out here with the team.”
The Wolves practice again at 4 today, an earlier evening-session start than the rest of the week so the team can finish and then head to owner Glen Taylor’s house for dinner.
For those of you looking for specific info on who’s looking how, it sure looks like Rambis is only going to allow media members in to watch shooting and sprints near practices end.
Apparently, it’s the Phil Jackson/Lakers way.
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good to see Brewer and Al back from injury, hopefully they can get back to form in TC and get ready for the new season, both of them are really needed
on the side note, Blount and Daniel were not with the team ATM, possibly both of them were bought out
