Re: Obie frustrated with front office

[Georgek27@AOL.com]

In a message dated 10/20/01 3:48:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
j.hironaka@unesco.org writes:

(Quotes from Obie)
> ``Well, what we got out is five games without any practice, which 
> absolutely sucks,'' he said. ``That's what we got out of it. We got game 
> experience and no practice time, which absolutely sucks. So we have to get 
> after practice . . . the next five practices are important. And in the next 
> two exhibition games, we want to be better than we have been in the last 
> (six) games.''
> 
> ``I think we're about where I had anticipated being, again with the idea 
> that you need to practice to get better in preseason,'' O'Brien said, 
> emphasizing the word ``practice'' more as he went. ``That's what preseason 
> is supposed to be about, practice. Not playing five frickin' games in eight 
> nights and only getting two practices. That's not what you're interested 
> in. So in lieu of the fact that we haven't practiced, we are where we 
> should be right now.
> 
> ``It has nothing to do with the NBA. We make the schedule. The NBA doesn't 
> make the schedule - we make the schedule.''
> 

The beauty of the above quotes were that they were delivered with fire! Obie 
was visibly pissed. If not on a microphone I doubt he'd have said "frickin". 
He's now put himself on the spot for the last two exhibition games since 
he'll now have practice time.

George