LAKERS NOTEBOOK: INJURED MCKIE NOT ENJOYING SPECTATOR STATUS.Byline: Ross Siler Staff Writer Even though he remains on schedule to return in another two to four weeks, Lakers See Lake poets guard Aaron McKie Aaron Fitzgerald McKie (born October 2 1972, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a former American professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA. said Sunday it has been anything but easy to watch from the sidelines while recovering from a torn left quadriceps tendon In human anatomy, the quadriceps tendon connects the quadriceps femoris muscles to the superior aspects of the patella on the anterior of the thigh. . ``I'm bored out of my mind,'' said McKie, who missed his 10th game to the injury as the Lakers played the Houston Rockets. McKie, a 12-year veteran, still hasn't returned to the court and has been restricted to lifting weights and doing upper-body work. He said he hoped to start running again sometime in the next week, then get up to speed in the triangle offense  This article or section may be confusing or unclear for some readers.Please [improve the article] or discuss this issue on the talk page. after that. But McKie hasn't been surprised in watching the Lakers' improved play in recent weeks, especially on their six-game road trip. ``The guys are coming together, like I visualized it,'' McKie said. ``It was a rough start for us but we were learning something new. We've got a lot of new faces, a new coach ... although Phil has been here before, he doesn't have the same personnel he had before. ``It's different, and things like that take time. This is a young team. They don't really grasp that or understand that. This is a long race here. The funny part about it is everybody is going Clipper clipper, type of sailing ship, designed for speed. Long and narrow, the clipper had the greatest beam aft of the center; the bow cleaved the waves; and the ship carried, besides topgallant and royal sails, skysails and moonrakers—a veritable cloud of sails. crazy and we're only like 15 games into the season. ``Of course, you want to start on top but you want to gradually work your way up. You want to be playing your best basketball in the second half of the season. I think the best is yet to come for us.'' --New Kobe? Phil Jackson
Philip Douglas "Phil" Jackson (born September 17, 1945 in Deer Lodge, Montana) is the current coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, an American professional basketball team. was asked if he has seen an evolution in Kobe Bryant Kobe Bean Bryant (born July 23 1978) is an American All-Star shooting guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA) who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. as a teammate in his return as Lakers coach. One of Jackson's central tenets is a feeling of connectedness between all players on his teams. ``I'm not going to qualify Kobe as changing,'' Jackson said. ``This is the same guy, the same guy that's determined to win, who's going to encourage his teammates through the most vocal means necessary to get them to play hard and do all those things it takes to win ballgames, in the most intense way. ``He's a guy that's going to jump through hoops that are on fire to win games and get things accomplished out there.'' Ross Siler, (818) 713- 3610 ross.siler(at)dailynews.com |
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