Gilbert Arenas...

...nimmt Rücklbick auf zwei Jahre Bloggen. Fazit = die Schreibarbeit lohnt sich:

After Two Years, Has the Blog Been Worth It? It depends on what kind of blogger you have. If you have a blogger like me who’s honest and really doesn’t care what you think, then it’s a good thing because people want to hear the truth.


...sieht als unterhaltsamste Aspekte der Serie Wizards - Cavs folgende:

It was an entertaining series. The hype and drama behind it was bigger than I expected (but, I didn’t expect DeShawn to call LeBron “overrated,” either). To each his own. That’s how he felt and we had to stand by him. They had their own little problems off the court I guess, so he had to do what he had to do and we had to stand by him as a team and get him as comfortable as possible and help him. I think we could have helped him a little bit more. We could have trapped LeBron a little bit more than we did to get the ball out of this hand and let everybody else beat us the whole series, but we played him straight up and he straight up killed us, like he did during the regular season.


...über den Grund seines (kurzen) Comebacks:

I did that because I wanted them to know that as long as I can try to run, I’m going to try.


...hat seinen Sommer bereits verplant:

I’m going to take a month off before I get into rehabbing. It’s hard, but it’s going to be important for my future that I at least give it a month of rest. I’m going to give it until the beginning of June before I start doing strengthening exercises again.
[...] I just have to monitor my body now. Last summer I took it seriously, but I didn’t take it as seriously as I should have. I worried more about my skill ability than really working on my leg as a whole. This summer I’m focusing my No. 1 priority on my knee and getting it back to 100 percent. Day in and day out, I’m going to strengthen up my knee.


...sieht in der Vertragsverlängerung Antawn Jamisons den Schlüssel zu seiner eigenen:

I want to be back in Washington, but weird things happen in free agency. If Antawn is not back, then there’s no point in me coming back because he’s part of my success, too. When you’re doing pick and roll with a player like him, they can’t double you, they can’t trap you because you have a pick and pop guy who can shoot the three at your four position. My success is because of him too. If he doesn’t come back, I’m not coming back.


...hält sich für keinen ball stopper:

When I hear I’m a ball stopper, I just laugh. I dare any of those critics to take a look at tape from the five years that I’ve been in Washington, I guarantee you can’t find 30 clips with me in halfcourt offense dribbling the ball more than 10 times. I’m not a pounder. I’m a quick shot. If they say, “Gilbert’s a quick shot,” hey, OK, that’s me. But if they say that the ball don’t move with me in there, hey, hey, that’s not me. I do two things with it, either I’m gonna shoot it, or I’m going to get it out of my hands to set up a teammate. I was never the pounding type to sit there and take 263 dribbles to get a move done. If you look at my game, I’m not flashy. I’m either going to shoot it, drive, or pass. So, if you can find me 30 clips of me dribbling the ball more than 10 times from the five years I’ve been here, I’ll do 300 pushups. You can’t count the end of the game either, where I’m dribbling down the clock just so we can have the last shot. It has to be throughout the game where you see me dribble the ball more than 10 times in the halfcourt offense.


...hielt es bisher für unmöglich, dass auch ein Michael Jordan älter wird:

You don’t expect these great players to get old. You just don’t expect that. You picture them in their prime playing days in the NBA. You know they’ll get old, but you don’t expect it. And seeing Jordan age is more shocking than say Charles Barkley or Magic Johnson, because we see Barkley and Magic every day on TNT. When you don’t see Jordan for a while and then he pops up on the cover, it’s pretty dramatic. You’re just like, “Man, he’s getting old.”


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