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Blog Batum: “To go on the bench, that made me fall down on ground”
January 20, 2011 with 18:59 by BS blogger
Tags: Blog, Nicolas Batum, Portland cement Trail Blazers
Hello with all. First of all, since it appears that it is not too late, I of course present to you my best wishes for this year 2011. That it brings happiness, health, success and all and all to you…
The last match that I played, it was against Minnesota. One will privilege collective success on my performance for this matchGood I took 9 rbds, I made 3 master keys and 2 interceptions, I defended on Beasley all the evening, it puts 12 pts, it is nevertheless satisfactory. But here, 1/11… it is ugly. And the 1, it is the first basket of the match moreover. It is worse. It is not as when you start to 0/5, but after you put at least one in the course of match of them and then you do not mark behind any more. Not, there, it is at the beginning, and afterwards, there is nothing. 0/10, I gathered the grapes! But I made good tricks at side, and Aldridge puts 37, Wesley and Rudy scorent too.
In any event, LaMarcus, in this moment, it is enormous. And moreover, it personally took the match against Wolves vis-a-vis Kevin Love. Because he wants to be All-Star and for me he deserves it. That is played between him, Griffin and Love. OK, Griffin made of the large things, but after is necessary to look at the collective assessment. Is necessary to look at the context of the team. Because we, if it were not there, one would not be where one is currently. 27 pts, 12 rbds since Roy is wounded, it is impressive. And today, in confrontation with Coils, it proved that it deserved. Coil takes 17 rbds, but at the end, it makes 4 small slaps of following the offensive rebound, you requests if it does not make a louper purposely, it is not sought to mark. It is to 7 rbds at the end of 3rd, it takes 10 of them in 4th by doing that: it is a liar makes some
In any case, it is not because it is my fellow-member, but Aldridge must go there. Full with world in the NBA says it too. It enormously evolved/moved in the play. On the level of the stats, that is not seen too much, but it is one of the guys who progressed the most this year. It changed in manner of playing. Is necessary to say that it took several kilos of muscles this summer. It enormously worked. Two hours, 5 times per week, with one to trail Cowboys of Dallas. And after it made two to three hours tennis shoe, with almost that interior movements. Front, it put only external shootings, maintaining it is 3rd or 4th better scorer in the racket. It becomes flippant.
And then, it changed in its head. You feel that it matured. It had a baby, it is promised in marriage, you feel that it evolved/moved on the ground and in its life too. And in the cloakroom too. It is a leader, he is much more vocal than front. It is for that which I said that is not seen inevitably in the stats, but it is one of those which progressed the most. All levels. Last year, he did not speak as much. Now, it is him the boss of the team. Andre Miller for example, is also a leader, but not really vocal. It is in the play that he speaks much, but apart from the ground, with the drive or in the cloakrooms, he speaks less.
The level and the evolution of Aldridge belong to the reasons for which one leaves oneself there and one has an positive assessment in spite of the wound of Roy. There is also the contribution of Wesley. Good, I cannot say any more that it impresses to me now, because does that of it becomes normal that it taffe. To the beginning, I said “Whore, but it taffe really!”. But now, I am accustomed to seeing it leaving the large matches. There is also Rudy which feels better. Patrick Mills was launched. There are not large names, but there is a team strapping man, everyone plays. Camby made its trick, Dante Cunningham is, for me, the most constant man of the season. There is an interesting team, and one leaves oneself there. One is 8th whereas one loses many matches stupidly. The number of times, where one is to +5, +6, +7, and which one loses… that points out another time to me that. One mancelle time in Euroleague mode… One lived a little similar on certain defeats recently: Miami, Dallas twice, State Golden delicious the Christmas Day, the road trip of shit which one makes in Washington, Philadelphia and New Jersey, that made small ten matches which one makes like that.
It is where the absence of Roy Torch is felt. A leader, go-to Guy, which takes the ball at the end of the match. But even, it is necessary that these matches is gained. There is perhaps a lack of hardness, one plays 45 minutes out of 48, one slackens oneself. Times, there are a certain inexperience which must play. One releases ranges stupidly. There are matches that one should not lose. After there are others of them where it is normal, one is made tabasser, like the match against New York. Against NY, it is the kind of matches where you beautiful ace to test, you do not arrive there. There are 82 matches, therefore it is normal also that arrives. Against NY, one was KB too. One had made a road trip in Texas, one returned to 3 or 4:00 of the morning, after one plays against Miami, with prolongation, and after one plays New York which plays in run and gun all the time. One held one half-time, one could not about it more at the end. Usually, when the coach says “tomorrow rest”, there are some who comes to make shot or muscu in the room. There he said “Tomorrow, rest, and I do not want to see anybody in the room. You remain on your premise.”
In any case, since the beginning of January, that goes, I try to find my rate/rhythm and that occurs well. I feel well with these guys. Even if I had a bad patch when McMillan made changes in manpower, because it found that enough matches was not gained. He wanted to put Wesley in the 5 to make me leave the bench. And it is true that I badly felt in this role. In fact, I did not have the practice. That made a long time that I was choke. And there, he wanted that I would be, as he said it to me, the go-to Guy at exit of bench. And oddly, I was lost in this role at the beginning. I made a success of some goods matches but I was lost a little. The role had changed, I did not play more with the same people. Before I played with Roy and Aldridge, and my play stuck well to this situation. With Rudy, Patrick Millets and Cunningham, it is a different play since they are different players. And then defenses are x-ray on these guys, therefore there is less of spaces. It is an adjustment to be made, and I had evil at the beginning.
Frankly, that made me shit on the blow of going on the bench. That made more than two years that I am there, that I was in the 5 and there, of the day at the following day, one passes by again on the bench, it obvious that is done a little badly. That touched me in my pride, I could not accept it, because I am a candidate. And of the blow, inevitably, you badly take it at the beginning, unconsciously I took it bad side. There is a stage where you say yourself “Why that still falls on me?”. And then, after I looked at the four others which are in the 5 and I said myself “bah ouais, it was obliged which that falls on me.” I think that I did not take the matches good way afterwards. During three, four matches, I did not approach them a good way and then after I tried to adjust me. I made goods matches behind, with two double-double in the same week. Because after you changings the head and you say yourself “Shows him that it needs you”, and I went back on the right tracks.
But you know what? That made me good, that positioned back me. That made me fall down on ground a little. When I arrived, at the end of one month, I was in the 5. And there I said myself “Ouais, your place, it is not protected at 100% either”. And in a direction, these situations are useful, that made me grow, that obliged me to be more vigilant, more intense. In any event, it is what Monty (Williams) said to me: “There be to you well, but in two years, there will be new small Nicolas Batum who will come to take your place.” Me, on the blow, I had laughed. Bah hold…
McMillan came to speak to me about it to say itself: “What occurs? Does the fact of not being more in the five disturb you?” I answered him that yes. He said to me that it was not because I was not in me 5 that I was less important. Thus there was a long discussion. I remember, it was in Memphis, I had a catastrophic match, less than 10 minutes, zero point. One remained in Memphis with the hotel after the match. It called me in my room, it made me “You do what? ”, I said to him that I did not do anything, he told me “bah come, one will speak.” It was well because it was necessary that one speaks oneself, because I did not know any more what I was to do, I were lost. That started again me. The match according to, I make 11 and against Dallas, and afterwards against Minnesota, I am done badly with the shoulder, and when I return, I am titular since Roy does not play any more. But I think that if I had had to remain on the bench, that would have passed better thanks to this discussion. Because when I left there, eh well I again knew what I was to do.
But I am become again quickly titular because of the wound of Torch. One suspected that at one time or with another it was going to stop. By seeing it playing, one knew that he suffered and that he needed to take care of it. It is trustful and optimistic. It is not an operation by microfracture, it will be able rejouer quickly. And it will be with us to adjust us not to rest more at 100% on him. It is where LaMarcus, Wesley or even me, one must be even stronger, to remove this pressure to him.
In any case, in spite of the absence of Roy Torch, in spite of the wounds, one manages to gain matches and one is well since the beginning of the year 2011. With final, one aprle never of us, but one is always there. Everyone says that Houston or Phoenixes will make the playoffs, but us, one does not intend to fall. It was done last year and one will remake it this year.
