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Not to mention the summer league team basically falls apart without him out there.
I get a kick out of folk who say Anderson is a ballhog. It's summer league and he is one of only two people who are going to be on the opening night roster and going into his second season. Of course he is going to take the most shots.
Not to mention the summer league team basically falls apart without him out there.
What a got
Your Slomo hate campaign really is the weakest and most pathetic troll attempt I've ever seen on ST.
Wish I was trolling, tbh. He is a bag at 20, sucks.
Well if NBATVs bracket is correct (NBA.com says differently) we will play the Hawks in the next round:
# Player POS Height Weight From 16 Ashley, Brandon+ F 6-9 230 Arizona/USA 19 Bellas, Tomas+ G 6-1 198 Gran Canaria/Spain 11 Davis, Josh+ F 6-8 215 San Diego State/Austin Spurs/USA 14 Holt, Stephen+ G 6-4 195 Saint Mary's/Canton Charge/USA 51 Horford, Jon+ F 6-10 250 Florida/USA 20 Kane, DeAndre+ G 6-5 210 Iowa State/Antwerp Giants/USA 2 McKinney-Jones, Trey+ G 6-5 220 Miami (FL)/Fort Wayne Mad Ants/USA 6 Millsap, Abraham+ G 6-4 190 Tennessee State/USA 41 Moser, Mike+ F 6-8 211 Oregon/Lietuvos Rytas/USA 31 Muscala, Mike+ F-C 6-11 240 Bucknell/USA 13 Patterson, Lamar+ G-F 6-5 225 Pittsburgh/Tofas SK/USA 33 Petteway, Terran+ G-F 6-6 215 Nebraska/USA 5 Robinson III, Glenn+ G 6-7 222 Michigan/USA 44 Smith, Greg+ F 6-10 250 Fresno State/USA 22 Tavares, Edy+ C 7-3 260 Gran Canaria/Cape Verde 29 Turner, Elston+ G 6-5 211 Texas A&M/Enel Brindisi/USA
Becky Hammon interview and article:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...ague/30270355/
LAS VEGAS – To those who know Becky Hammon back home in South Dakota, her year as the first woman to serve as a full-time assistant coach in the NBA was hardly a surprise.
Whether it was hunting trips with her father and brother, or on the basketball court where she eventually blossomed into a WNBA star, Hammon could always keep up with the boys.
But Hammon knows this is different. She’s making history every day, pounding the rock that is gender inequality with the hopes that her story can lead to change for the women who will follow in her footsteps. Hammon was hired to Gregg Popovich’s staff as a full-time member last summer. She reached another benchmark this week, as Hammon served as the head coach of the Spurs’ summer league team in Las Vegas.
In between the practices, film sessions and games that took place here, Hammon took time with USA TODAY Sports to reflect on her first year working with the game’s most respected coach and his esteemed staff, and her hopes for a day when she’s no longer an outlier.
How different are you now, as a person and as a coach, than you were a year ago?
“I feel like this whole last year was just learning. Every day, coming in learning. It was like going to school with a professor, just coming in there and taking notes.
“It’s one thing to watch the NBA, but when you have to be there for every film session, every practice, it’s a grind. It’s a lot of hard work.”
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The Spurs have this culture of "we" over "me," and Popovich gravitates toward people who are over themselves. So as all this attention has come your way, how have you handled that dynamic?
“I just have to be me, and that’s what I’m most responsible for. Pop gave me the job because of who I am, and my brain, my personality, and what I can bring to the table. That’s ultimately why I got the job. I think if he were to hire me and I wasn’t qualified, what a disaster it would be, or if I didn’t fit in. It could end up really hurting women, so it has to be the right person. Throw the gender thing out, and it has to be the right person, it has to be the right fit. You have to be knowledgeable. The last reason I want to be hired is because of my gender. I want to be hired because you trust me, because of my potential, because you believe that I know basketball, and we go and we build from there. I think those are things that Pop acknowledged in me and recognized in me.”
But that’s a lot of pressure. So when you came in, how did you feel and when did you feel like this was going to work?
“I think the worst thing that I could have done, and which I tried not to do, was to prove how much I know. I didn’t want to come off like that, didn’t want to be like that. I came in with the at ude of, ‘Let me learn. If there are things that I can help (with) or bring to the table, I’ll certainly mention those.’ That’s just in any job. I think when people take that approach, it leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths, like, ‘This person doesn’t get it.’ ”
Does that mean you were quiet early on?
“I just think there’s a real art in listening. I need to listen. I mean, these guys have been in the Spurs organization, they know how things are done, what’s expected. So for me to learn and observe, that doesn’t mean I was totally quiet — I spoke up when I saw something. But I didn’t want my voice to get lost in just noise. ‘Oh here she goes, she’s just talking.’ Choosing your moments, but also Pop would have told me to shut up, too, and it’s never fun to be told to shut up by your boss.”
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So has he told you to shut up?
“No, he hasn’t. But I hopefully didn’t give him too much of an opportunity to.”
Who was the player who was easiest to connect with and who took a little longer?
“Well, me and (Spurs point guard) Tony (Parker) were friends long before, so he’s a very good friend. I would actually bounce things off of him, and we had conversations even before I ever got hired. I was kind of charged with point guards a little bit in practice, so if we were doing specific shooting stuff I would work with the point guards, so Cory Joseph was a guy who I worked with a lot. Boris Diaw was my guy on game day, so I was delegated different duties. And obviously the ones who you work the closest with — and obviously I wasn’t working with a lot of post players— you start to get a rapport with them, to build a relationship with them.”
You have had some what-if chapters in your story. The Olympics in 2008 and 2012, and how you and Popovich bonded there. And then when you tore your ACL as a member of the San Antonio Silver Stars in July 2013 and spent much of the year as an unofficial member of the Spurs coaching staff. Do you think those two things came into play in getting this job?
“For sure. I think there are so many little steps, and factors, of my path, and my journey. I could go back to my childhood. I was always with my (older) brother. I know how to hang out with guys and get along with guys. I was always with my dad and my brother. I know that if you can’t keep up, you get left behind. So you learn to pull your weight. You learn to not be the one that’s causing the problems, whether we’re camping, where I’d better be the one to help put up the tent. You can’t just be a taker, and be like, ‘Oh, I’m a girl so I don’t know how to do it. I can’t collect wood to put on the campfire, because I’m a girl.’ I learned to work hard and to keep up. Like I said, you can go all the way back to something as little as that, going hunting and fishing with my dad all the time.”
I have to imagine your parents are just beaming with pride. I’m sure they have been for a long time, but this is obviously bigger than basketball. What does that mean?
“They’ve been proud of me a long time, but they will be the first to smack me down if I forget where I came from. My mom still thinks she can take me over her knee and spank me if I get out of line. They’ve been so supportive. I mean, they’ve come to Moscow, to everywhere I’ve played, China, everywhere. They’ve just been around the world with me. This last one obviously the impact that it had is just mind-blowing. I mean, I’m a kid from South Dakota, and it’s just so weird the stage that I’ve been (given). Being added onto the Spurs staff, and then this, it’s a little mind-blowing, honestly. It can be overwhelming if I think about it, so I try not to think about it.”
What stories come to mind in terms of the scope of this and people you may have met or heard from because of it?
“Well, obviously, President Obama tweeted me. That’s pretty huge. I felt like I was in (the television show) 24, where they’re telling me, ‘The president just called.’ Like, the president just tweeted me. Holy crap, the president of the United States just tweeted me.”
Did it pop up on your phone when it happened?
“I got a text, and it was like, ‘Holy cow, the President just tweeted you.’ So I saw it, and I was like, ‘That’s un-frickin-believable.’ None of us, including Pop, anticipated (that). Because originally our plan was, ‘OK, we’re going to announce it and then we’ll take a day or two and just hit the local media.’ Then it announced and all of a sudden it was just a barrage of every possible news show. It was just huge. And then, all of a sudden, I wasn’t doing local media. It was like, ‘We’ll do one or two big hits and then drop it.’ The other thing was that I was playing at the time, and I was like, ‘It’s just too much of a distraction. I need to finish, I want to finish well as a player. And I want to finish my playing career.’ I wanted to go out like that, to be celebrated as a player. I’m not sitting here today if there’s no WNBA.”
Nice article about Becky. Very inspirational. Thanks for posting it.
Lol she mentions tp
THis from the guy who was butthurt about someone making fun of lakers poor performances in summer league?
Gap-tooth Kawhi! He's on the wrong side.
Looks like we are playing the Celtics instead on Saturday
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.@RachelSantschi caught up with Coach Hammon today to talk #SummerSpurs & #NBAsummerhttp://gospu.rs/1HEyBa3
Mugen, don't get banned bro.
.@RachelSantschi caught up with Coach Hammon today to talk #SummerSpurs & #NBAsummer
No crap - that was like a whole year of Pop interview information!Feels weird to have a coach who answer questions with more than a sentence
Becky is so personable!!! Very likeable and upfront, seems very smart! Nothing of the Pop dry humor. One goo question would have been how does she rate herself in terms of how do you know if you messed something up? Do you get feedback from Pop.
.@RachelSantschi caught up with Coach Hammon today to talk #SummerSpurs & #NBAsummer
Also, off topic, but Spurs coaches very high on KA. In several interviews already has mentioned how much they are relying on him here and she stopped short here of saying how pleasantly surprised they are at his development.
.@RachelSantschi caught up with Coach Hammon today to talk #SummerSpurs & #NBAsummer
Becky's been asking for it all summer tbh.Mugen, don't get banned bro.
SAGirl, gimme a lil smooch.
They should.... go out to dinner together. Cute couple.
.@RachelSantschi caught up with Coach Hammon today to talk #SummerSpurs & #NBAsummer
How did the spurs make it to the second round when they where not in the first round?
spurs had a bye in the first round.
Becky gives great interviews tbh. Also like the fact that in one her previous interview she was discussing some team thing(shooting game I think) for their enjoyment. Really like that aspect. Also she can flirt with the refs for better calls tbh.
Oh alright , thanks for letting me know
Nothing has changed since last summer. The Spurs have always been high on Anderson's future. Perhaps they have only been surprised by his work ethic. Not that they thought he was apathetic, but they didn't realize how relentless he would be working on his game. Most know he was a projected lottery pick or mid 1st rounder. Elliott gushes over this kid every time he sees action on the court. Every analyst does the same, talking up Anderson's ability. It's only a segment of the Spurs fan base who doubt, not only his ability and the front office for drafting him, but even so much as to ridiculously question whether or not he has NBA ability at all. But hey, that's what never weres do. So now all the criticism will shift from he'll never make it to, welllllllllllll...the only reason he was able to do that was...Typical never were's rationale.
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