CLIPPERS NOTEBOOK: ROOKIES FINDING CAMP NO RESORT.Byline: Sean Kearns Staff Writer PALM DESERT - Keyon Dooling Keyon Latwae Dooling (born May 8, 1980 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Orlando Magic of the NBA. and Quentin Richardson Quentin Richardson (born April 13 1980 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American professional basketball player, currently playing for the National Basketball Association's New York Knicks. He is a swingman. knew training camp was going to be tough - but not this tough. Dooling and Richardson have been learning the ways of the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= in their first two days of practice at College of the Desert. ``I expect it to be tough, but it's easier said than done,'' said Dooling, a rookie guard from Missouri. ``It's a lot easier to say that it is going to be tough than to go out and do it. You really feel it. Hey, you Hey, You is the debut EP of Japanese band Mono. Track listing
only go through training camp one time a year and you've got to cram a lot of stuff in and work on it in the preseason.'' Both Dooling and Richardson, who is from DePaul, were on the massage table Wednesday having the soreness rubbed out of their legs. ``(Coach Alvin Gentry Alvin Gentry is an American professional basketball coach, and college basketball player, who has led three different NBA teams. He served as an interim coach for the Miami Heat at the end of the 1995 season, and later coached the Detroit Pistons and the Los Angeles Clippers. ) said it was going to be intense, but I didn't think it was going to be as intense,'' Richardson said. ``I think I'm cool with it.'' Gentry said he has kept close contact with the rookies, talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to them everyday to make sure they understand what is going on and to answer any questions. ``Obviously Quentin is a real, tough, hard-nosed kid,'' Gentry said. ``It's just a matter of him learning. The physical part he'll be fine in. Keyon, it's the same thing. Being a point guard is probably the toughest transition you can make. The whole thing with him is going to be patience and see if we can get him as many times out there running the team and see if he can learn running the team.'' ``It's a whole different game,'' Dooling said. ``It's not college where you can do whatever you want to do. Everything is 10 times harder.'' --Team hires new assistant: The Clippers announced the hiring of a fourth assistant coach, Igor Kokoskov. Kokoskov, from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, coached last season for Missouri and was the first non-American assistant coach in Division I. The addition gives the Clippers four assistants for the first time in franchise history. Kokoskov, 28, will help with player development. ``When we've got such a young team,'' Gentry said, ``we've got to teach every day.'' --Double dribbles: Nesby left the second practice on Wednesday dehydrated de·hy·drate v. de·hy·drat·ed, de·hy·drat·ing, de·hy·drates v.tr. 1. To remove water from; make anhydrous. 2. To preserve by removing water from (vegetables, for example). and went to the hospital for fluids. . . . Miles is turning to pickles to keep from cramping cramping see cramp. . He was handing pickles out after both practices. ``They're good,'' he said. . . . Gentry said the final practice Wednesday was the best for the team to date. |
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