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I wish they would have let the blog writer on the Spurs plane... that is the flight I want to hear about.
Still the report was interesting. It will be fun hearing more.
Thanks, Solid.
http://www.nba.com/europelive/lyon_blog.html
Europe Live Blog - Lyon
As part of NBA Europe Live, the San Antonio Spurs are in Lyon, France for the first stage of training camp. They will practice at the Halle Vivier Merle arena and take on Adecco ASVEL in a preseason game on Oct. 5. After the game, the Spurs will travel to Paris where they will continue camp and face Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv on Oct. 8.
Here's the latest from NBA.com's Jeff Dengate, who is traveling with the Spurs.
Welcome To Lyon
LYON, FRANCE, Sept. 29 -- posted by Jeff Dengate on September 29, 2006, 12:30 p.m. ET
Greetings from the banks of the Rhône River, Lyon, home to all things gastronomic and a major player in the development of cinema. For the next week, this French city lying somewhere between Paris (to the north) and Marseille (to the south) will also serve as home to the San Antonio Spurs, who are opening their training camp here. Next week, the Spurs will play an exhibition against Adecco ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne, before the team packs up and spends a few more nights in Paris.
We'll talk more about Paris at a later time, as we will those gastronomic delights and additional background on the history of cinema. For now, let's scratch the surface from my first experiences with the country and its culture. On the seven-hour flight from New York to Paris, I used the idle time to delve into French cinema courtesy of the Criterion Collection two-disc set of Francois Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player.
Truffaut's second film was often suspenseful, at times comical and for the most part enjoyable. It was the young director's opportunity, in 1960, to craft his take on the American film noir. It also was my opportunity to brush up on my non-existent French language skills. Not sure the film helped, given my limited knowledge base (read: one junior-high semester) and the English-language sub les throughout. I have, however, loosely committed myself to memorizing the off-color tune cheerfully sung mid-way through the 80-minute film, which, obviously, shouldn't be sung anywhere outside my shower-stall walls.
There must have been something about sub les on the flight over, as I followed that film up with Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief ... well, at least until the juice on my Dell ran dry. I guess a dead battery is better than the alternative.
After travelling through the night Thursday and dark cloaking France's second-largest city on this Friday night, it's time to recharge my own batteries. But stay tuned to NBA.com for more on cinema, more on the food the French are famous for and, of course, more on hoops. We'll get to the hoops part sooner, as the Spurs arrive here tomorrow afternoon.
(posted on NBA.com - so I guess there is more to come)
I wish they would have let the blog writer on the Spurs plane... that is the flight I want to hear about.
Still the report was interesting. It will be fun hearing more.
Thanks, Solid.
Nice our team will be all soft from Euro play and ready to start the NBA season. Just great.
You forgot overweight.
Lyon is where you go when you want reall really REALLY good food. Oh, and the wines of the region are not bad either.
Think Pop had anything to do with the choice of the training camp lcoation?
You forgot overweight.
Lyon is where you go when you want reall really REALLY good food. Oh, and the wines of the region are not bad either.
Think Pop had anything to do with the choice of the training camp lcoation?
It's a tough job...
If the food is so good, why do they eat snails and tree moss?
You laugh as much as you want, but after you've tried a few 2 and 3 Michelin stars restaurants, you seriously start thinking about the snails thing. I mean if everything's so good, why the snails? What don't I know? Is it just a trick to keep the foreigners away from the good stuff? or are they hiding their best in plain sight?
You start obsessing about it and walk around looking specifically at places that have snails on their menus, trying to sneak a peak and see if anybody is actually eating them. And it drives you crazy to the point that one day you go in and order the snails special and try one.
And at that exact same moment you hear hysterical laughter coming out of the kitchen...
CIA French?
Nice Change of Place
LYON, FRANCE, Oct. 1 -- posted by Brent Barry on October 1, 2006, 12:30 p.m. ET
So many teams in the league try to do different things for training camp. It's nice to get out of your own practice site and have a chance to bond. Some teams go different places in the States, but to have an opportunity to go abroad and experience a new culture and see new things -- obviously, it's home cooking for Tony -- but for the rest of us there are a lot of guys who haven't been here before and it's nice to have a bonding experience away from you normally go to work all season long.
We're looking forward to being back to work. We had some guys real busy this summer playing in the World Championship and we hope they got enough rest, but it's nice to see familiar faces and get back to work. I know our staff is excited about the season and this is just a necessary step toward the end of the year and the training camp's to get in shape. So, we're happy to be here.
I stayed in shape by chasing around my kids. That'll do it. That's a full-time job if you're a parent. And if you're playing basketball, it's a full-time job. So, between chasing them around and surfing in southern California all summer long, I had a good offseason. But, all the preparation you do to try to get in shape before the season never works. I was just talking to Tim Duncan about it. Tim's been in the gym for the last month and I've been in there for four weeks and we've had guys in and out. You think you're in good shape and then you come in to the first day of practice and it all goes out the window. We're back at square one and we'll just work from here and try and get ready.
Now that we're in Lyon, if we keep doing what we're doing, these double-days, nobody's going to have time to eat. Our coaches are going out and making sure they're experiencing the fine wine and the cuisine. If they give us a little bit of a break, I'm sure our guys will go out and grab themselves a good meal while we're in Lyon and Paris.
I'm looking forward to visiting Paris and walking around there. I've never been there before and my wife is coming over. So, to have some time with her and to share some time with her there will be nice. Along with getting our work done and also being ambassadors of the States and for the NBA game coming over here and playing against two teams over here, hopefully we'll represent the NBA well while we're here. We're coming over here to represent the Spurs and the league as best we can, and hopefully we'll get a couple wins.
I just saw the start of the 1976 Warriors/Suns Finals game on NBA TV where father Rick got into a fight in the first 2 minutes.
Rick spent the entire game primping and adjusting his helmet hair.
Thanks for posting the Blog. It was a nice read.
Brent should have hired a nanny for the summer.
I don't care what you mother ers say, I still like Brent Barry.
You're welcome angel.
Especially after my recent nanny experience, I think it's great that Brent spent the summer with his kids.
What did we say to make you say that?I don't care what you mother ers say, I still like Brent Barry.
Why do you think I said that in the first place?
Ah!Why do you think I said that in the first place?
I don't know if I have the energy to keep up with two little Brents. Can you imagine!
Eh, it's more-so just the general Barry-hate and constantly swirling trade rumors.What did we say to make you say that?
I think I'm just stubborn because I was excited about the Barry signing, and now that it's tanked I just don't want to let that go. Plus I'm too lazy to change my avatar.
I mean...yeah, the guy is kinda getting overpaid to underproduce...but at least he's thrown in a few big three bombs. Right?
...Right?
When we face Phoenix Barry will have at least 5 3's.
There's a number of blogs going on from there, so I'm merging them all here.
The latest from David Chancellor, WOAI ...
Day 1 At Spurs Camp
Here are some observations from Day 1 of Spurs training camp.
*Pop says expect Tim to be the old Tim this year. My words, not his--but I'm paraphrasing. Pop did say that Duncan is in as good of shape as he was early in his career, and that we should expect Tim to be more "demanding of the ball" offensively this season.
*RC Buford says Duncan should play more center this season. We need to follow up on this, to find out if this is in the Spurs small lineup, or in a usual set. That being said--does that mean anything about the recent additions at center: Francisco Elson and Jackie Butler.
*Tony Parker is having some mental blocks about his right hand. All the xrays are back, and fine. But Tony says he's still a little apprehensive about going all out. That should change by the end of the week.
*Tony #2: Enough with the Eva talk. It may be headline news in San Antonio, but there is no mention of it here. Parker did tell us yesterday that everything is fine between them, but at this point--shouldn't we all just let the two of them work it out/or break up in private?
The Spurs have 2 practices today, just one is open to the media. We'll see ya on the tele (oh wait, that's what they say in England) at 5,6, and 10pm.
Au revoir..Chance
http://community.woai.com/blogs/point/default.aspx
Thanks.
Wasn't the Pop words excactly the same last year?
booooooring Pop you CIA winedrinker
"Tim to be the old Tim this year"
We actually saw a lighter, more energetic, well-conditioned, MVP-ready Tim already a year ago, then he got hobbled by PF.
Health is a lottery, totally, completely luck.
I'm bet Tim is thinking end-of-career, and would love to have B2B les, for which his time is running out. It would be history repeating if Tim accomplished a repeat with Ian as co-warrior, they way David got his les with Tim as co-warrior.
Yeah, same old words as last year. In fact, if you close your eyes and listen to athletes' bleatings in any sport, at any level, it's the same old words.
Last edited by boutons_; 10-02-2006 at 08:12 AM.
"Tim to be the old Tim this year"
4Down
Brent's latest :
http://www.nba.com/europelive/barry_blog.html
Laying A Foundation
LYON, FRANCE, Oct. 2 -- posted by Brent Barry on October 2, 2006, 10:30 a.m. ET
We haven't really had a chance to go out and do much. When you start training camp and you have two-a-days, there really isn't much time other than sleep and then back on the training table. I think tomorrow we're just going to have one practice, so that might afford us the opportunity to get out and see the city a bit. So, I think some guys are looking forward to that and getting some fresh air. As long as it doesn't rain and we get some sun, I think guys will look forward to seeing the town a little bit.
Practices yesterday and today were good. We're just putting down a foundation of the things we want to build on and fundamental things -- getting everybody back to thinking basketball and trying to get a feel for one another and at least have some semblance of what we're going to try to do in the two exhibition games that we play over here. It's just really about conditioning and starting to think basketball again. It's just fundamental things so that when we do get started, for both of the preseason games over here, we can carry over what we're doing on the practice floor to the games here and then when, obviously, we get back to playing NBA teams back home.
I really haven't heard much about Thursday's opponent, Adecco ASVEL. I'm sure our coaches have some idea what the team is like and maybe Tony even knows some of the guys who are playing. But I'm looking forward to the reception Tony is going to get on game night.
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