არ ვიცი ვერაფერი ვერ ვნახე მაგრამ ჯილბერტას ახალი ბლოგი გაიჩითა ორაზროვანი სათაურით i'm back
When people are asking me, “How does it feel to be back?” I don’t consider myself back. It’s jinxy. That’s why I don’t talk to the media right now. They’re going to ask the same questions, “How does the knee feel? … How does it feel coming off the bench? … Are you opting out?”
You know what, there’s only so many times you can answer those same questions. I mean, can’t they just use the same quotes I said last week? There’s only so many times you can answer the same questions so I just said, “Forget it.”
I retired from talking to the media for this year. I’m going to wait until next season.
After this, I’m not blogging for a little bit either. Right now, it’s not all about me. It’s about keeping focus on the team. We’re in the middle of a playoff positioning fight. I’m trying to do anything I can to help us achieve our team goals. If that means coming off the bench, then that means coming off the bench.
I’m just trying to keep a level head and not worry about anything. I’m just focusing on playing and doing whatever I can to make the team better. I know most players, when they come back, especially when they’re the franchise player on the team, they can interrupt what’s going on. Instead of coming in and trying to fulfill what I used to do right away, I just wanted to come in as a role player and add to what the team was already doing. I don’t want them to have to change back to the dynamic we had last year and re-do their roles with the playoffs so near. Me coming back should be a plus, not a minus.
We lost the first game when I came back with that shot, but it’s a shot. It shouldn’t have gone down, but it did. You can’t blame a whole game on one shot.
Tom Knott ripped me in the paper and said I messed up on an assignment and this and that and compared me to Sprewell.
Stuff like that irritates me because they don’t put any thought into what they’re writing. They want people to “Ooh” and “Aah” about their stories but come on, if I was like Sprewell, I would have just sat out, dummy.
Let’s be honest.
The only reason you know anything about the contract situation is because I’m letting you know. Ninety-seven, 98 percent of the world would have just sat there on the bench and thought, “If I just sit here, I’m going to get X amount of money, if I don’t, anything can happen.”
But I love basketball too much. I said, “Screw it. If I get hurt again, I get hurt.”
At the end of the day, I’m still playing basketball. I can get hurt walking down the street.
But, Sprewell? Come on, Knott. You can be more creative than that. Last time I checked, I didn’t choke anybody. I didn’t say I need to feed my family.
My kids eat McDonald’s, how much money do I need to feed them? Cheeseburgers have gone up from 49 cents to 69 cents, so I could complain about that I guess. But if I need money for a McDonald’s cheeseburger for my kids, we have bigger problems than a game vs. Milwaukee.
But to be real for a second, in that Bucks game with the way we played, we should have put them away. I don’t want to take away from what Sessions did. You know, he was a D-League player for most of the year and came in at the end of the game with the confidence to hit a great shot. He hit that rainbow three.
My natural basketball instincts kicked in. I know they say not to leave the corner, but they threw the ball to Bogut near me and I thought I had a chance to disrupt him. But Bogut kicked it out and Sessions hit a rainbow shot over my head.
I know it’s easy to look back now and say, “Dang, I shouldn’t have did that.” But when you got the game on the line and they throw the ball by your head, you go for that switch. I bit on it and he hit the shot.
I could see being angry if it was Michael Redd in the corner, but there’s no scouting report on Sessions. He didn’t really shoot the whole game up to that point. I didn’t think the man could shoot, and he stepped up and hit a game winner.
Other than that, we’re 3-1 since I’ve been back. So I want that team momentum to continue. We got Detroit coming up and they’re resting their players for the playoffs, but we have to go in there and handle business because we’re still fighting for a higher seed. They got second locked up, so there ain’t no point for them to risk their guys, but we have to do what we got to do because Philly is on our tail. They’re trying for that fifth spot too. I think everybody wants Cleveland in that first round. They’ve been a .500 team ever since they made that trade and everybody wants a chance at that matchup.
We want Cleveland for our own reasons, we don’t think they can beat us in the playoffs three years straight. It’s hard to beat a team three years straight. We want to try our luck.
Coming Through a Little Late on My PredictionThe Boston game felt like a playoff game to an extent.
Not the atmosphere though, sometimes it got a little bit loud. I thought Game 1 of the season up there was more like a playoff atmosphere because they had so much going on and that crowd was just crazy.
Our crowd didn’t need to get into it because they believed in us that we were going to win the game.
I remember when I made the prediction at the beginning of the year that we would beat Boston, everybody laughed at me after we lost. They had their little short giggles. I’m glad you guys giggled, because I’m going to be giggling the whole summer now.
I think we’re the only team in the league to beat them three times this season. So, giggle giggle giggle back. You all were so quick to kill me, but five months later I got the last laugh.
Three out of four.
HA!
DeShawn’s Birthday PartyDeShawn’s and Caron’s birthday parties were different than mine. Mine was a Hollywood atmosphere where everybody had to dress up and put on their best clothes because people like the mayor were coming, people flew in … mine was an event.
Caron’s was in that same category, where you had to dress up, but it had more of a party feel to it.
DeShawn’s was just a party. You had to dress up, but it wasn’t in no black tie. His idea was, “Hey, let’s let loose for once. Let’s go out there and just have fun.”
It was bringing it back to when we were younger, I guess. When you’re young you don’t have to worry about what people say, you just go and have fun. That’s what that party was all about.
All you had to do for DeShawn’s party was find ‘80s clothes and you go out there and have fun looking at everybody else’s outfits and see who put their time in dressing up in ‘80s clothes. (აუ რა მაგარია რამდენი ხანია ეგეთი პართყ მინდა მოვაწყო
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I got the idea for my outfit from just watching TV. I saw Paid In Full and the East coast beat boys dressed with the Kangol hat, the Gucci sweater, the Levi’s, the brass knuckles, the Rolex – I had me a fake roley, diamoned out from the ‘80s – I had the big old ‘80s cell phone and then I had the beeper, you know, just in case somebody wanted to hit me on my hip and then I had the sunglasses. I rolled up to the party in my old school ’59 Impala too. I went all out. I did what I had to do.
Giving out the GilIIZerosFor the last couple weeks, even before I was playing yet, after I worked out I gave out my shoes to the fans because I was in the city where the shoes would be coming out in. I think it started in Portland, I gave out the Channel Zeros, then I gave out the GilWoods in L.A. and the Hibachis and the Undrcrwn and the D.C. Football.
I got a warning on wearing the Hibachis that I wore the first game back because they were too red, but other than that I’ve been wearing shoes that have been the majority white for home games.
No. 0 Leaving ArizonaI’ve seen a little bit of Jerryd Bayless this year. He’s a stocky type of point too, who scores and is very explosive. With this game, I think its good he entered the draft. He has that same type of game I had when I was in college. You know, very explosive, can get to the rim, can shoot, can make plays. At that age when you come into the league, you just try to learn the NBA game as fast as possible and stake your claim.
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