Media Day/Training Camp: Raptors, Mavericks, and my own
/With media day being yesterday and training camp starting today for my two favourite NBA teams I felt it would be a perfect time to make my first post since like the Raps and the Mavs I too need to hold a media day to create hype for the season and go through training camp to get myself into decent (writing) form. It's been a long time since I've written on a regular basis so this will start off really rough but I promise over the course of the next year and hopefully beyond I'll be improving with every article, video and photo I post. While this site will be covering everything baller in basketball I won't hesitate from posting baller content about anything. So without further ado here's what's going on in the world of Raps and Mavs.
The pictures from the Mavericks photo shoot seems to indicate that Harris, Ellis, Parsons, Nowitzki, and Chandler will be the starting 5 to begin the season or at least the pre-season. Although personally I'd love to see Jameer Nelson, the guy who got fined for doing the 'big balls dance' after making a clutch game tying shot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN3il8GKIoY , start for the Mavs it makes the most sense for Devin Harris to start for now as he already knows the offensive plays and defensive sets from last season plus his superior defensive ability over the Dallas' other 3 pgs can help reduce the load on Tyson Chandler who was brought to the team mainly to defend the rim. I also like hearing that Eric Griffin, Dallas' new hyper athletic wing, was the last person to leave training camp today spending extra time polishing his shooting ability with coach Carlisle which could prove to be important since a lot of players may prefer to let him shoot a jump shot as apposed to letting him do this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qnpr99f6Aw Anyone else thinking dunk contest?
Terrence Ross came into Raptors media day trying to prove one thing. That he's not the skinny sg/sf who had issues dealing with larger opponents last year as seen in the playoff series against the Brooklyn Nets. Raptors GM Masai Ujiri was especially positive about Ross' improvement over the summer saying, "I'm positive we'll see real growth with him." This should be a huge benefit for the Raptors as Ross is obviously talented on the offensive end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNOXGRS_oow and now the Raps coach Dwayne Casey can leave him out there against larger guys without fear of him being a defensive liability. The start of training camp for the Raptors is a little bit more complicated as there 3 "home" preseason games will occur in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal respectively so the team started training in Toronto today but had to fly out to Vanvouver this evening. So far no real news has come out of Raps training camp because of this.
The final piece of baller news is that Martell Webster and Marcin Gortat are sexual black chocolate and sexual white chocolate from now on okay. https://twitter.com/SarahKogod/status/516616966178893824?lang=en
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