Word: shootaround
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...They've got the band strategically located right behind our seats on press row. I think they planned it this way... 14 minutes on the shootaround clock, then we'll get the starting lineups, the national anthem and the tip a little after 6:00. Stay tuned...
...family worth rooting for, knows he's a marked man. Every point guard from Chicago to Peoria wants to knock the hotshot USC recruit off his perch. He's unfazed. "I like the pressure," says Boatright, noshing on a chocolate long john at Dunkin' Donuts before a Saturday-morning shootaround. "I feed off it. I hear all the negative stuff, I just add another workout. I'll make them feel stupid...
...After a half-hour of video McClintock and Byrne join the rest of the Sharks in an unheated gymnasium across campus for the pregame shootaround, which is endured by the shivering players in parkas and toques. Outside it is 7?C; inside it feels about half as warm. During the halfhearted workout the coaches' infrequent instructions are translated for McClintock and Byrne by an exceptional teammate: Ma Jian, the 2-meter power forward who, a decade ago, became the first mainland Chinese to play basketball at a major U.S. college, Utah. Like McClintock, Ma?whose given name, Jian, means Healthy...
Although Clemente still will require that surgery, a New York expert earlier this week cleared him to play. Clemente worked out lightly Tuesday afternoon and participated in last night's shootaround before entering the game for the first time with 6:30 remaining...
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