Training Camp Day 2

qrui · Oct 7, 2005

great read. thanks so much. can't wait till the season starts.

Houston22 · Oct 7, 2005

TX, Clutch.
Keep up the good work.

jscmedia · Oct 7, 2005

Clutch, this is really great. I would think the rockets brass would realize this is some of the best pr they are getting this year on cfans, and the cost?......nadah ! Probably put your name on the back of a chair next year,,,,,,

m_cable · Oct 8, 2005

Well the Day 3 training camp thread isn't up yet so I'll stick this in here. Here's a vid from foxsports with a little bit of training camp action, and a couple of words from Skip about his role. Unfortunately you have to use Internet Explorer to view.

http://video.msn.com/v/us/dw.htm?p=...a8a3-1368a94e68e1&m=us&pl=Fox Sports_Top News

krocket · Oct 9, 2005

m_cable said:

Well the Day 3 training camp thread isn't up yet so I'll stick this in here. Here's a vid from foxsports with a little bit of training camp action, and a couple of words from Skip about his role. Unfortunately you have to use Internet Explorer to view...
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Methinks Tmac's comment right at the end that Skip is a better fit for the team pretty much sums up why MJames is GONE.

Blatz · Oct 10, 2005

Is Clutch okay?

Haven't heard from him since he started the thread asking for questions to use at training camp day 3. I don't care about the day 3 stuff and I know he's been real busy but I figured we would have heard something from him by now.

I'm just a worried poster

AroundTheWorld · Oct 10, 2005

I was wondering the same thing. I hope it is just because he has a lot of work with his day job.

wiredog · Oct 11, 2005

cool..

Clutch said:

UPDATE: <a
href="http://www.clutchfans.net/news.cfm?NewsID=1250">Full Training Camp Report</a>

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I don't have much time to write right now, but again I will have a recap up tonight.

Another great experience. I again caught Yao alone for a couple of questions ... I never anticipated that. Tomorrow is the last day I'm going to camp so I'll have to ask you all for some good questions to ask of these players.

In Austin, we were in there so long that you had plenty of opportunity, pretty much, to talk to most of the players. Here, when you talk to one player, you're guaranteed to miss out on 3-4 as a result. They just either pass by the media early because they're not specifically requested, or they're gone by the time you finished with someone else.

The Rockets asked me and the others if we wanted to talk specifically with any of the players. No one else asked for Stro, so I asked if I could speak with him. When I was done with Yao, they came over to me to tell me that they spoke with Stromile and he was sitting over there waiting for me. That was a pretty damn wild experience to be told that and then look over to see Stro just sitting their on a media table sort of kicking his legs and hanging out by himself waiting.

He was cool .... that dude is mellow cheese, man. Very low key. I asked him about 5-6 questions... the last one was about the dunk on Yao last year. He totally was holding back laughter and got a big smile ... said he doesn't really talk about that.

He said he's learning, but it has been difficult. So he says there has been a lot to learn ... it's not too similar to Memphis I guess.

The coolest thing, by far, was Rafer Alston though. I was very impressed with him .... very. He seemed smart, handled the media well, and seemed to be an extremely, extremely nice and approachable guy. He did not back away from questions about his past and didn't even seem shy about it. He was completely surrounded by the media and when they all left, I was the only one there because I had one last question. I apologized I was keeping him there and he had this huge smile -- "No problem man!" and he slapped his arm around my shoulders to get in close for the question.

I wish someone had taken a picture of that .... I'd hang that up in my office. "Here's me and my buddy Skip hanging out on the Rockets court."

Anyhow he says he's thrilled to be a Rocket. I'll have quotes and stuff soon.
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