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On any given day behind the closed doors at Celtics practice, a dodgeball game might break out. After one early training camp practice, Ainge was spraying a leftover ball around the gym (and inadvertently drilled an unsuspecting media member with an errant toss, maybe explaining why he chose basketball over baseball for his professional career). Sometimes Doo will replace those soft red dodgeballs with gigantic inflated stability balls for a hilarious variation of the game.
During the summer, Doo will break players into three-man teams and have them compete in what’s essentially Ultimate Frisbee. “It’s continuous though, so it’s conditioning,” Doo explained. “When one team scores, they score, they transition back against another team, while the losing team might have to go ride the bike.”
Players often will ask Doo for certain games they’ve done in the past, but more often he’ll simply whip something up based on whatever objects might be available that day.
Chris Forsberg with a deep dive into Bryan Doo’s unconventional conditioning tactics. Apparently, Bryan believes in mixing ludic pedagogy with keeping players fit. The video in the article above is well worth watching–even if you have to suffer through a 30 second ad in order to watch all 44 seconds of it.
No word yet if Bryan has pulled some of these out of a back storage room at Waltham:
Page 2: Where Jaylen Brown is earning Stevens’ trust
You have to earn your time. You have to bring something to the table that adds value to winning, and there are a lot of guys competing for that.”
Aided by injuries to Marcus Smart and Kelly Olynyk, it has not taken long for Brown to prove to Stevens he is capable contributor on that front just two games into his NBA career.
Brian Robb takes a look not so much at Jaylen Brown’s middle-school level gaffe in the closing minutes of Thursday’s game, but on the fact that Stevens trusted him to be out there in the first place. Ben Mark touched on this yesterday as well. Jaylen has made some rookie mistakes–which is going to happen. The real question is how quickly he grows out of them. How quickly can Jaylen learn the game and get control of instincts that may be putting him in some awkward spots?
Finally: KG on TNT
The rest of the links:
Boston Globe: Lack of rebounding already has Celtics in tough spot
Boston.com: Dwyane Wade fined $25,000 for throat slashing gesture (D-Wade also announced an ‘anti-violence’ initiative before the game)
Boston Herald: Celtics getting out-rebounded across the board
CSNNE: Celtics bench hurting with Smart out | Four ways the Celtics can shore up their defense | Garnett to add ‘raw insight and commentary’ to TNT NBA coverage
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