- 7 minutes ago
Jiaolian 2015
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00:28Transcription by CastingWords
00:00:54CastingWords
00:01:27CastingWords
00:01:28coach and he tells me he's going home and they tell me that I'm gonna be the
00:01:31head coach so now I have 24 hours to cram in all this stuff that I've tried
00:01:37to think about and plan out for the last five to you know six seven years of my
00:01:41life and put that out there on the floor for tomorrow
00:01:50I go from being an assistant coach that you know very relaxed to all of a sudden
00:01:55being thrust into a situation where I'm standing out there in front of a packed
00:02:00arena of 10,000 people on national television coaching as Tracy McGrady
00:02:13I mean that was beyond reality to me though I was still hard for me to like
00:02:19comprehend exactly what happened there and then beyond that to go out and win
00:02:31the game was I mean I thought I was like invincible at that point in time
00:03:16this may he may have saved the game for the Indians here from the silver back on the line he
00:03:23just missed a one-on-one
00:03:24they'll have another one-on-one here and I'm counting on Norm to make this one
00:03:31first one on the way nothing but net
00:03:34I knew Norm wouldn't miss too he's just too good at the line job
00:03:38we have Norm DeSilver and Sam Madden what a ball game
00:03:42yeah it was exciting when I just love to come away with a win there and a close one
00:03:45well you had an outstanding game you had 13 points 10 assists in those key free throws at the end
00:03:51of the
00:03:52game I'm sure as a young boy growing up you always want that basketball at the
00:03:56far line to win a game yep me and Sam here every morning before school 630 we're
00:04:00shooting far shots and finally it pays off you know the stats don't really mean
00:04:04much it's in the win column that's what matters
00:04:27this court was finished before the house was built so the priorities
00:04:34very clear from the beginning
00:04:41earliest memory of playing basketball has to be with my dad
00:04:50he would come home from work late every night at about 10 o'clock at night I would
00:04:55try to time it so I was always out there shooting when he came home and then you
00:04:58know he'd rebound for me for half an hour or something before we'd go inside for I
00:05:03always thought he was an average-sized kid and then I remember he came home one
00:05:05day on the school bus for a second grade I started looking at all the boys and I
00:05:09went holy moly he's not very tall but uh but I guess I just didn't want to make
00:05:14any excuses for him
00:05:19Paul Santos alongside two of the great coaches in the area here
00:05:23Skip Karam former coach of Derpy High School and of course Eddie Roderick still
00:05:27coaching at New Bedford and uh talk a little bit about the game tonight I know
00:05:30you've watched Don Smith play what impresses you about this year's Indians team
00:05:33I like the silver I had you know I saw him against Derpy I didn't realize how good he was
00:05:41I came to the realization probably in middle school that I wasn't gonna mix the
00:05:44NBA I always knew that basketball was such a big part of my life that I wasn't
00:05:49gonna be able to give it up after I was done playing and and I had a finance
00:05:53internship in college and those were the first summer of my life that basketball
00:05:57wasn't the centerpiece of what was going on I was I was lost without it really I
00:06:02was I was empty and it was kind of at that point where I said alright next summer I'm
00:06:06gonna you know get a basketball internship I'm gonna start working
00:06:09towards my life after playing basketball and staying in the game somehow I drove
00:06:15out in my pickup truck to Chicago and I had all my belongings in the back and I
00:06:19didn't know where I was gonna stay what I was gonna do and I I started out at
00:06:23Tim Grover's spot it's called the tag athletics where he works out NBA players
00:06:28and it was important just to get in the gym and be on the floor with some
00:06:32really high-level guys going to the gym 7 a.m. leaving at about 1 maybe have 30
00:06:38minutes to stuff my face with some food and then I got to go out and knock on
00:06:41doors in Chicago suburban areas and trying to sell finished basements as much as
00:06:46that might sound miserable like I loved it I was around pro basketball players I
00:06:49was learning every single day that was when I figured out that I could have a
00:06:54life after playing basketball still in basketball from there I was able to make
00:06:59enough connections and latch on in the D League as an assistant coach again
00:07:03making next to nothing never complain I mean I found out things now like when he
00:07:07was in Chicago he's living in his car I never knew that he would never tell me
00:07:09that because I said hey come on home you're gonna get a real job right but he
00:07:12wouldn't tell me that you know when I'm graduating from college I'm thinking I
00:07:19have four years of experience in finance in the business world or I have you know 15
00:07:29years of experience in basketball basketball is what I know best and you
00:07:34have I don't know 50 years of your life to do work I do anything but what you love so
00:07:44at this point about to turn 27 still making it essentially almost no money I have loans I have
00:07:50to support myself somehow you know my parents are on me telling me you know you gotta get a job
00:07:56again I always did think that it was going to be a very short-term thing and then you say
00:08:00yeah this
00:08:00this ain't for me and well I was wrong I get a call from like my basketball mentor Mike Procopio
00:08:08he goes pack your bags kid you're going to China it was a coaching job in China being an assistant
00:08:15coach for Joe Welton with the Foshan Long Lions he goes you absolutely need to take this job so I
00:08:22called the coach talked to him he offered me the job and I had about 24 hours to talk it
00:08:27over with my
00:08:27parents and to me it was a no-brainer I can get paid to be a basketball coach basically that's
00:08:32what that's what it came down to and whether it was in China or whether it was in my backyard
00:08:36I was
00:08:36gonna say yes to it
00:09:14there's basketball courts inside the Forbidden City they sure love their basketball
00:09:19he wants to walk through the Ring of the Ring of the Lions for the Greatest
00:09:23a little bit you can't see
00:09:30a little bit you know
00:09:32he's still there
00:09:35he's still there
00:09:36I went to CBA when I was 5-6 years old I got first of the CBA
00:09:39This is the CBA of the second team
00:09:44CBA is the Chinese NBA NBA winner and the latest football game
00:09:47In the first time and the CBA team
00:09:49is like,
00:09:50for example,
00:09:50Wang Ziz,
00:09:51Barthel,
00:09:52the former young man,
00:09:53and Lui Dung,
00:09:53which was called the Chinese Golden E-D-D.
00:09:55it turned out to be very deep.
00:09:56In the sense of the title,
00:09:56I became a dreamer.
00:09:58After the last three years,
00:10:01I got to go out to the NBA,
00:10:05I didn't have to go down the NBA.
00:10:07I had to look down the NBA series
00:10:09from the NBA series.
00:10:11I felt very strange.
00:10:13I was still a kid,
00:10:15but I was still a kid.
00:10:16I didn't get to go down the NBA.
00:10:17This is my first feeling.
00:10:20They're not good at the game now, so I'll see both of them now.
00:10:24Although the CBA is very apparent that they haven't developed to the NBA level,
00:10:28but the goal of the CBA is to become the Chinese NBA.
00:10:50So the CBA allows every team to have two imports.
00:10:54They could be from any country outside of China.
00:10:55Generally, they're always Americans.
00:10:57So our team is the Foshan Long Lions.
00:10:59We have two American imports.
00:11:02He's Shadlik Randolph and Shad McCants.
00:11:04And since Foshan finished in the bottom five in the league,
00:11:07they were also able to have an Asian import from any Asian country.
00:11:11There is no league now in Syria.
00:11:13Nobody playing basketball.
00:11:15So I took the decision to come to China,
00:11:17because China is one of the most important leagues in all Asia.
00:11:28I'd only played in the NBA.
00:11:29That was my only playing experience,
00:11:31and that's obviously what I had wanted to continue to do.
00:11:33I was coming off of surgery the year before.
00:11:36I'd rehabbed. I'd gotten stronger.
00:11:37So, you know, I was really looking forward to, you know,
00:11:40trying to get back in the NBA.
00:11:41You know, I just saw more and more and more guys
00:11:43kept signing over in China,
00:11:44and it probably wouldn't be a bad thing
00:11:46for me to go over there, play to get that experience,
00:11:49you know, to be able to make a good amount of money.
00:11:51In my research, I saw that, you know,
00:11:53as opposed to being in Europe for nine months,
00:11:56you're in China for four months, you know,
00:11:58and it's the same kind of money, if not more.
00:12:00And I was like, yeah, I mean, absolutely, I'm interested.
00:12:05The Chinese players follow American basketball.
00:12:07Like, you know, they know who we are before we get there.
00:12:10Like, they've probably seen us and they've watched us.
00:12:12So it's important, like, you let them know, like,
00:12:14hey, like, I'm your teammate now.
00:12:15Like, we're playing together.
00:12:16Like, you know, don't look at me as somebody
00:12:18who's played in the NBA or I'm a long line
00:12:21or whatever the name is.
00:12:24Like, I'm on your team now, you know?
00:12:40I have no idea what long lion is.
00:12:43I know that long is Chinese for dragon.
00:12:51And I know that lion is English for lion.
00:12:58probably him.
00:12:59Like a lion or lion,
00:12:59he's a human
00:13:00that's kind of just the middle chain.
00:13:08I will find the alimentos for Sharmy کرćämse.
00:13:12assume even if
00:13:13he's oriented. Well, that's
00:13:21one story
00:13:21he told you to come into. He'll be like過來,
00:13:22maybe it's a whole series
00:13:23of character and he'll fuck down. Perhaps he'll take the ball,
00:13:24which means I can tell you about
00:13:25accessory versus someone. I can tell you about how he's
00:13:25hooured. I'm his two big pebbles.
00:13:25And we'll be such a volunteer.
00:13:45Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
00:13:56Good, Jay-Z. Good.
00:14:00The Chinese players are all allowed to pick American names.
00:14:03It's mainly to help the coaches, usually if you have an import coach.
00:14:06So when I'm first meeting the players, it's Jay-Z, JK for Jason Kidd.
00:14:10I got Blake for Blake Griffin.
00:14:12I got to the point where I was like, all right, who's next, Michael Jackson?
00:14:15The names just come out of nowhere.
00:14:22The reputation of Foshan around the league going into this season was another win on the docket.
00:14:40When I took over, we were 6 and 11. We were down in the very stellar of the league. And
00:14:47we were struggling.
00:14:54One of the things that we were playing in the world is, is that our coach's family has a problem.
00:14:58So we're not going to go back to the world.
00:15:00So we're not going back to the world.
00:15:01So we won't go back to the world.
00:15:04Joe, our coach before, you know, he's older, he's very experienced.
00:15:08Norm, this is his first coaching, head coaching job. So it's a different dynamic.
00:15:13He's 27. You know, he's a kid.
00:15:16Across the league, it does seem as though a lot of the coaching staff, a lot of the coaches are
00:15:21actually Chinese.
00:15:21Or if they're not Chinese, they're people who've had some sort of long-standing tie with international basketball or China
00:15:28specifically.
00:15:29So it is incredibly strange, I think, for him to be handed the keys to an entire team.
00:15:35We're going to slow it up. We'll go through all the dead ball stuff.
00:15:43That means we're in this alignment.
00:15:46And you just, everybody takes a peek over the sideline real quick.
00:15:51You know, I was really the only guy they had for the job.
00:15:53Coach Schier had taken the team over last year and they had done much worse.
00:15:57And he had a hard condition and he didn't want the job.
00:16:00The consultant had been sitting back and, you know, critiquing everything all season and it's just a losing position for
00:16:05him.
00:16:06He didn't really want the job.
00:16:06There really was no other option for them other than to give me the job.
00:16:12Let's go. Let's go. Last time. Last time. Let's go.
00:16:15Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
00:16:16Let's go. Let's go.
00:16:36Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
00:17:02Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
00:17:03Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
00:17:05Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
00:17:05Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
00:17:05Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let
00:17:07He's, the body's getting beat up a little bit. I think his, his legs weren't at the level that they
00:17:14were when he first got here. And basically our management thought that a change would be for the best. And
00:17:19the, the person that we have coming in, I believe is, is similar to Rashad and hopefully can do just
00:17:25as well as Rashad did for us.
00:17:37I just knew that from what everybody was telling me before I came, that, you know, these guys are not
00:17:42good, that, you know, you're going into a situation and don't expect to win. When I got here, it was
00:17:49just, I felt like there was a bond right away.
00:17:51All right, here we go. Here we go. Come on.
00:17:55I tried to give them more freedom, open up the floor, let them play a little bit more. Not even
00:18:01from a strategic standpoint, was it that important as it was mental for them?
00:18:07Ball, ball, ball. Ready?
00:18:13Oh, miss, miss. Wide open.
00:18:17All they knew was we got a new coach. He's going to let us play. He's not going to pull
00:18:21me out for making mistakes. We're just going to go have fun and enjoy. We got nothing to lose.
00:18:43He's still learning a lot. So he let me do a lot of things, you know, and he just gave
00:18:47me a lot of control and, I mean, let our team play.
00:18:50Now you're a prototypical CBA American player. He doesn't take many shots. He's a great team player. He gets everyone
00:18:58involved. Chinese players love him.
00:19:11A lot of what we did was modeled off of Mike D'Antoni's stuff, spread ball screen, kind of opening
00:19:17up the entire middle of the floor, really no post, and letting JK, letting our point guards, Ron, whoever it
00:19:23be, you know, penetrate and kick.
00:19:24And we had the luxury of doing that with a guy like Jay-Z, who's, you know, a seven-footer,
00:19:30plays the four, and can also shoot the three. And Shaft could shoot the ball. I thought it fit what
00:19:35we had for pieces.
00:19:35You're amazing. Every fucking rebound is going to determine this win right now. Everyone.
00:19:48The coach of the Noman coach has brought a great support for the entire team.
00:19:53The coach of the Noman coach is 27 years old.
00:19:5727 years, Noman.
00:19:58Noman.
00:20:00Noman.
00:20:00Noman.
00:20:00Noman.
00:20:01Noman.
00:20:02Noman.
00:20:03Noman.
00:20:24Noman.
00:20:25Noman.
00:20:26Noman.
00:20:28Noman.
00:20:29Noman.
00:20:30Noman.
00:20:31Noman.
00:20:31Noman.
00:20:32Noman.
00:20:33Noman.
00:20:33Noman.
00:20:34Noman.
00:20:34Noman.
00:20:35Noman.
00:20:35Noman.
00:20:35Noman.
00:20:35It's not a good thing to trust the three players.
00:20:40I hope that in the next tournament,
00:20:41we can bring more help from the three players.
00:21:28I was in the game, like, ooh!
00:21:33Do what?
00:21:38He did it like he was, like,
00:21:43Iverson.
00:21:45He did it like...
00:21:47I was in the game, like...
00:21:53Around the back?
00:21:55Yeah, around the back.
00:22:01You know, sometimes watching Jay-Z play basketball breaks my heart.
00:22:07Because there's no doubt in my mind if somebody had gotten with him,
00:22:09or the right people that got on hold of him when he was 18, 19, 20 years old,
00:22:13he'd be in the NBA right now.
00:22:14I mean, a seven-footer who can stroke it from 20-plus feet,
00:22:18those guys don't come around every day.
00:22:25I've had a lot of conversations with Jay-Z, and he at times wants to fly under the radar.
00:22:33But it's frustrating sometimes you just want to grab him and shape him into the player that you know he
00:22:38could be.
00:22:38I think, in China, as a Chinese country,
00:22:42it's definitely possible to find a kind of cultural culture with it.
00:22:45For example, the Chinese people say that the Chinese people know,
00:23:01they run this lot, number 8 and 3D.
00:23:08As much as I think the CBA is trying,
00:23:11they're still extremely different from the NBA.
00:23:13You have an 82-game season versus a 32-game season.
00:23:15Each game counts a whole lot more than in an NBA season.
00:23:19In the NBA, you've got a farm system.
00:23:22In China, you have kids that don't go to school,
00:23:25who are strictly basketball players.
00:23:27From an NBA team,
00:23:29from their perspective, revenue is extremely important.
00:23:32The CBA team is not as important nearly as it is in the NBA.
00:23:37The CBA team has two kinds of skills.
00:23:41One of them is to make the competition more successful,
00:23:42and to make the Chinese people better
00:23:45to have a better sports career.
00:23:47And on the other hand,
00:23:48they have two kinds of skills.
00:23:51Do you have two kinds of skills?
00:23:53In the current situation,
00:23:55they have two kinds of skills.
00:23:57For the current situation,
00:23:59they have two kinds of skills.
00:24:11They are all in the country.
00:24:23For the current situation,
00:24:23They have three kinds of skills.
00:24:24And they have two kinds of skills.
00:24:24And they are two kinds of skills.
00:24:37The Chinese sport was always controlled by the government.
00:24:41The system was like the Soviet Union.
00:24:43They pick you according to, you know, your height, what they think you will be good at,
00:24:51not what you like.
00:24:54They pick you from very young, and they have amateur athletic schools, and that means
00:25:01after your regular schools, you go there, train, you are kind of groomed by the nation.
00:25:08Your effort is not recognized unless you serve the country.
00:25:14Let me see, this is the whole men's and women's team, Romanian tour, Pakistan, France, Manila,
00:25:22and in 1975, we defeated the Spanish national team.
00:25:25World Chamberlain went there particularly to see that game, because it's new.
00:25:30And the team from China, can you imagine, isolated for decades, you know, and it's just like
00:25:38a team from North Korea now, visiting the United States, it's impossible, you know.
00:25:44Because China was isolated, internationally.
00:25:48Back then, maybe China's best friend is Albania.
00:25:52You know, back then it was like that.
00:25:54But after Nixon visits in 1972, then things start to change, because of ping-pong diplomacy.
00:26:07Oh, we can use sports to get China out of isolation.
00:26:11You know, all sports is for political reasons.
00:26:16Once, once I, you know, in the game, I dunked the ball, I was forced to make self-criticism.
00:26:23So, that means you draw too much attention to your person.
00:26:28I did that.
00:26:30You know, that's back to the political atmosphere.
00:26:34You know, even today, you can't entirely get rid of it.
00:26:38Individuality, creativity, initiatives, these things are lacking in Chinese basketball.
00:26:43You know that.
00:26:44I know it.
00:26:45Every time I watch them play, I know how they think.
00:26:47They don't play to win.
00:26:49They play not to make mistakes.
00:27:20It's not easy to have fun when you go out of the game, it's not easy to have fun when
00:27:22you guys lose.
00:27:22But you can tell we're a completely different team.
00:27:25You guys have made tremendous strides to show that you can play in every single game.
00:27:29Alright?
00:27:30This is a game we can win.
00:27:31You guys will beat this game.
00:27:33Let's go.
00:27:34Let's go.
00:27:35We're out there.
00:27:40We're the number one team in the league, they're, you know, a bunch of dynasty in China,
00:27:44if you will.
00:27:45So, I'm sure they're going to come out gunning for us.
00:27:46They're going to try to pound us.
00:27:47Really, everything needs to go right in order for us to win, but you know, they're not infallible
00:27:53Yee, Terrence Williams, and Ike Diagu, those are NBA players, and the rest are on the Chinese
00:27:58Olympic team.
00:27:58Like, that's a good team.
00:28:16So today, we're going to see the two of them.
00:28:23two of them.
00:28:26You've got 120 points.
00:28:41You're going to have 120 points.
00:28:43And I want to get 25 assists.
00:28:48Second point for tonight, protect the pain.
00:28:53Everybody knows that you're dangerous and that you're good right now.
00:28:56Now, all of the other teams believe that you are in danger.
00:29:02So, it's gonna be a war.
00:29:04It's gonna be a war.
00:29:05Let's go!
00:29:08Let's go!
00:29:08Let's go!
00:29:08Let's go!
00:29:09Ready!
00:29:18Ready!
00:29:30Ready!
00:29:31Ready!
00:29:33AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
00:29:34We start this game 10-0, alright?
00:29:36But we hit first.
00:29:37Let's go!
00:29:38Let's!
00:29:39Let's go, enjoy.
00:29:40Go!
00:29:41Go!
00:29:41Go!
00:30:01It seemed disappointing.
00:30:04Each team ran a stage.
00:30:08He might feel a勝負 in a large extent.
00:30:38But slowly but surely they started to make shots.
00:31:00There's an obvious huge gap between the imports
00:31:03and their level of play versus the Chinese players.
00:31:06But you can't be good without good Chinese players.
00:31:36Let's go to the war.
00:31:37Watch out!
00:31:38Watch out!
00:31:40We're in!
00:31:44Let's go!
00:31:45Two people…
00:31:56Zoe, Handy…
00:31:59Cyprus!
00:32:00Look!
00:32:33We're not a great defensive team by any means anyways, but we go through periods where
00:32:37we can't get stops, and against Guangdong, if you give them a 10-point lead, they're
00:32:41going to hold on to it.
00:32:42They're not going to cough it up.
00:33:17Maybe it's an inexperience or youth or lack of practice time because we haven't practiced,
00:33:22we haven't been able to drill defense really, but we just got to find ways to not be fighting
00:33:27from behind all the time.
00:33:28.
00:33:29Let's go.
00:34:04So there's these courts near the stadium, I would say maybe 80 hoops.
00:34:09It blows my mind, because every time I walk by there, every hoop is filled.
00:34:18When you think about it, though, the most populated country in the world, and really, basketball is their sport in
00:34:25China.
00:34:25They love it. You know, people are playing it nonstop every day in every park that you go to.
00:34:29You think that with that much of a talent pool to choose from, you'd be able to develop some players.
00:34:37I think one of the main differences, though, is the infrastructure is very different.
00:34:42So in the United States, there's a lot of ways you become pre-professional at an earlier age.
00:34:48For example, with basketball, you might play high school ball. You might also play AAU ball.
00:34:53I don't really think that infrastructure exists in China. So even if there are kids who are out in the
00:34:59streets, balling every day, the opportunities to hone their skills aren't quite there yet.
00:35:10You know, I think the CBA needs to really start at the ground level.
00:35:17For whatever reason, at the lower levels, they're not getting the instruction they need.
00:35:22All they do is practice. They don't really play many games at all.
00:35:25And like anything that you don't really know how to teach, you just tell them,
00:35:29do more, do it faster, do it harder, do it better.
00:35:36If you don't have someone actually giving them direction, coaching them, and actually teaching them versus just telling them to
00:35:41go run,
00:35:41that's a problem because there's not a whole lot of ways to get players in China other than developing them.
00:35:54You know, I'm just looking for a quiet life.
00:35:57I try to get away from people, you know, I never enjoy being around, you know, a crowd or anything,
00:36:06you know, even, you know,
00:36:08I'd rather stay home and watch NBA than go to an NBA game or something, you know, just, I don't
00:36:17know.
00:36:32In China, basically, you're treated as a tool.
00:36:42On the basketball court, I could express myself.
00:36:47I decided I played my own way.
00:36:51I was on the 17, but I dunked the ball like nothing.
00:36:55You know, back then, nobody can dunk the ball.
00:36:57You know, they saw, they dunk the ball, I never saw basketball play that way.
00:37:02The coach hate me.
00:37:05The coach hate me because I don't play their way.
00:37:19I was very depressed.
00:37:22So depressed.
00:37:23I lose entire motivation to play.
00:37:33I don't know if you think that's true.
00:37:37I think that's true.
00:37:38I think that's true.
00:37:39I want to say it a lot.
00:37:39Let's say it a little bit of more.
00:37:39Like I said, it's a kind of a problem.
00:37:42This is a true.
00:37:42But I think that's true.
00:37:44It's true.
00:37:46There's no way to the world.
00:37:46Most people have control.
00:37:48You know what you need to put them in the position.
00:37:50You can tell them that you need to invest a set of 300 players in the field.
00:37:54The most people have to be applied.
00:37:55It's just a little bit, a little bit of genius.
00:37:58You don't care about it, it's very good.
00:38:12When I was very young, I was about 7, 8 years old.
00:38:17My parents brought me to school.
00:38:21When I didn't participate in CBA before,
00:38:24I also had a lot of times when I faced difficulties.
00:38:31The most difficult thing is when I was a 7-year-old team.
00:38:34When I was young, I was 16 to 19 years old.
00:38:39I had a lot of training.
00:38:41After that, I felt I was tired.
00:38:43And I was able to maintain it.
00:38:47It's hard to remember that these guys were like 18, 19, 20 years old.
00:38:51There's so many droopy faces all the time
00:38:53and it doesn't seem as if they're having fun.
00:39:00I'm not saying that all these guys are forced to be basketball players
00:39:02or I'm sure that plenty of them picked it up as kids
00:39:05and they liked it and they were good and that's why they're here.
00:39:07But it's hard to enjoy something when you're doing it 6 days a week,
00:39:1111 months out of the year.
00:39:13CBA players' lives are not a lot of people.
00:39:17They're still in a very old way.
00:39:19There are a lot of rules.
00:39:21They don't have a lot of rules.
00:39:23They don't have a lot of rules.
00:39:23but they have a lot of rules.
00:39:25After that, they're a lot of rules.
00:39:28After the competition,
00:39:28CBA players have a lot of time.
00:39:30So it's a long time for the CBA players.
00:39:32They're also a long time for the CBA players.
00:39:34You need time away from basketball in order to enjoy basketball.
00:39:39They probably want to be kids,
00:39:40and they're in such a structured lifestyle that it's difficult to be a kid.
00:39:44And it seems like at times they hate basketball.
00:39:59Hey, baby.
00:40:00Baby?
00:40:03Get a haircut.
00:40:04He doesn't know what I'm saying.
00:40:05That's Kobe.
00:40:06By the way, if you want to get an autograph later, that's Kobe.
00:40:10When I got to China,
00:40:12the team basically gave me an option of living downtown in the city,
00:40:15but I actually chose to live in the dorms with the players,
00:40:17and that's where I spent 90, 95% of my time.
00:40:21Jay-Z, turn your jacket around.
00:40:24You look like a fool.
00:40:28Alex, tell him to turn his jacket around.
00:40:31That was cool in 1991.
00:40:41Trying to learn the language a little bit.
00:40:43You have to understand who your players are personally
00:40:45before you can coach them in a game setting.
00:40:50My girlfriend came late in the summer,
00:40:52and made me promise that I would free all the animals before I left.
00:41:14What's up, buddy?
00:41:16How much they want for you?
00:41:21I thought it was beautiful,
00:41:22and then I realized that they were killing all the animals to eat them,
00:41:25and then I was kind of depressed, but...
00:41:31Being around the players, eating with them every day,
00:41:34using the chopsticks, going over there,
00:41:36and cruising through the fish heads
00:41:37and trying to find something to eat.
00:41:39If you want guys to go to war with you,
00:41:40you better be able to do the same things
00:41:42that they're subject to doing every day.
00:41:50This is about the most American Chinese dish you could possibly get.
00:41:53Yeah.
00:41:54What was that, chicken?
00:41:56This bone...
00:41:56Like, whatever you eat in China, there's going to be a bone.
00:41:59You'll be eating egg, and there's a bone in the middle of it.
00:42:03I had never left the country before until I got off the plane in China.
00:42:08I was just in complete culture shock.
00:42:10That's the only way to kind of explain it.
00:42:34It's tough to come out here and be by yourself,
00:42:36because you can't talk to anyone.
00:42:38It's hard to communicate with anybody, really.
00:42:41You look like brothers.
00:42:44You look like brothers.
00:42:46You look like brothers.
00:42:48But I knew my first month, two months,
00:42:50last season when I came over here were tough.
00:42:54It was really hard for me not to be able to talk to people
00:42:57when I wanted to talk to them,
00:42:58not to be able to walk outside
00:43:00and have a conversation with someone for the most part.
00:43:04But, you know, once you get used to it,
00:43:06it definitely gets easier.
00:43:11Gotta have a computer and some internet, you know,
00:43:13and you'll be good to go.
00:43:15Some way to contact people back home.
00:43:20I'm at the airport, that's why I'm awake.
00:43:24Yeah, we're fine.
00:43:25It's a game.
00:43:26We got a game tomorrow.
00:43:27It's all right.
00:43:28Hanging in there, we got...
00:43:30I got delightfully reminded
00:43:33by our assistant, a quasi assistant.
00:43:37I'm four and four,
00:43:39which makes me the winningest coach in franchise history.
00:43:43The best part is, though,
00:43:44he tells me to play every minute.
00:43:46Ignore him.
00:43:47And then we win.
00:43:48And then he's, like, congratulating me
00:43:50for listening to his advice
00:43:51and telling everyone that we're winning
00:43:54because I'm listening to him.
00:43:57But winning cures all, right?
00:44:01We're in a position right now
00:44:03where we're still in the hunt
00:44:04for that last playoff spot.
00:44:06But, you know, we got seven games left,
00:44:08and we can only afford to lose one or two more games.
00:44:18What's your number?
00:44:2011B.
00:44:21Can you speak Chinese?
00:44:23Yeah.
00:44:23Huh?
00:44:2511B.
00:44:26The security team,
00:44:27if you need to have a chance
00:44:30to be able to get a mandatory
00:44:31one,
00:44:31we might be able to get a deal for it..
00:44:34I don't know. We're
00:44:35going to have to deal with a bunch. It's
00:44:37just about a close line. I'm
00:44:39going to be able to get a job of a couple. But I'm
00:44:41a perfect and easy job. You have to
00:44:43long way? You can follow the
00:44:47pictures. Oh, right?
00:44:49the situation. Who's interested in
00:44:50it? I'm on the
00:44:54floor Right? I have
00:44:55place. Yes. The VMC.
00:44:55Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:44:59You can't do it.
00:45:00You can't do it.
00:45:00You can't do it.
00:45:46You can't do it.
00:45:48Okay, our effort was exceptional, but at times our mental focus wasn't there.
00:45:51All right, the possessions where we played poorly on defense mainly resulted
00:45:56because we took four shots on offense.
00:45:59When I first got here and I'm watching film of games from last year
00:46:02and I'm sitting with coach and we're talking about the style of game,
00:46:05the number one biggest difference that was glaring to me was the defense.
00:46:10There is almost no defense being played in China.
00:46:13Listen, you have to communicate and you have to...
00:46:15You have to stay with him until you can physically touch the next guy.
00:46:19Come on, come on, come on back.
00:46:22All right, switch.
00:46:23Now it goes to the ball screen.
00:46:24You have to turn, you have to turn.
00:46:25All the people love scoring the ball.
00:46:28Nobody like clap or chill for the good stop.
00:46:32All right, look.
00:46:33Ball pass.
00:46:34Come on.
00:46:35Come on.
00:46:36Say they cut through.
00:46:38So you can't do it.
00:46:40Right.
00:46:40The overall position of the game is a bit different.
00:46:44Say he gets stuck in the situation where the big guy is five minutes in the corner, okay?
00:46:49Song has to go to the corner, we'll bump him down.
00:46:51So look, say this is Song.
00:46:53Go on.
00:46:53Offensive.
00:46:54Come on, Song.
00:46:55Come on.
00:46:56Go on.
00:46:57Coaching defense is a difficult thing to do.
00:46:58You have to put them in situations and drill them on rotations and different things that
00:47:03you can't script.
00:47:04It's more of an instinct thing that you have to drill into their minds over and over.
00:47:08You're going to have to make a decision.
00:47:09You're going to come off a ball screen and you're going to have to make a read and make
00:47:12a decision on the fly as to where the ball needs to go.
00:47:15Whereas over here, they're trained as basketball players to this is your job, this is how you do it,
00:47:20and they want to be told exactly how things are supposed to be done.
00:47:23And you can't.
00:47:23That's a tough way to play basketball.
00:47:25He just suggests that when the guy is cut, don't stay.
00:47:29Don't stay.
00:47:30Because if you stay, they'll mess up.
00:47:33Sometimes they, on the court, sometimes they use the communication.
00:47:38Number one rule, when in doubt, stay with your man.
00:47:41If you don't know what to do, stay with the guy you're with, okay?
00:47:45If you guys can communicate, it'll solve a lot of problems.
00:47:48I think defense is lacking, and I think that there's a few reasons.
00:47:53One, you don't see the kind of defense out of the import players like that you would see in the
00:47:58NBA.
00:47:59If I was in an NBA game, if a guy came, I would go up and try to contest or
00:48:03block a shot.
00:48:04In this league, I may not do that because I can't afford to get in foul trouble.
00:48:08You know, and you don't know how the whistle's going to go in this league.
00:48:12I mean, calls can get kind of crazy.
00:48:20This is the game of the season. We and Fujian have almost the same record.
00:48:25But after winning in Guangdong, this game of the tournament,
00:48:30for us, it's the only one I hope to keep in the game of the tournament.
00:48:40They have a great big man, Will McDonald.
00:48:43They have a really good young Chinese big man.
00:48:45Yeah, it's his first season, he's got spin moves, he rebounds, plays hard.
00:48:51He is probably already one of the best centers in the CBA.
00:48:55I think that if we come out, we're able to get up and down the floor,
00:48:58and we're able to make some shots, and the game's not called too crazy,
00:49:02I think we could win.
00:49:06The president had a good, like, I don't know if it was a Chinese proverb or what,
00:49:09but it translated pretty good.
00:49:10He said, if we back up, we fall off the cliff.
00:49:12So he goes, you've got to stand and fight.
00:49:31Finn, come on, come on.
00:49:34J.K.
00:49:35Tano, Tano.
00:49:37Good pass.
00:49:38Let's go.
00:49:39Go, go, go, go, go.
00:49:40Come on, J.K.
00:49:41Come get it.
00:49:42Tano, Tano.
00:49:50We've had trouble with starts, okay?
00:49:51So I was part of our emphasis where we ran the ball,
00:49:54we got to the rim, we were getting easy shots in transition,
00:49:56guys were making open shots.
00:49:58And then after that, we kind of hung out.
00:50:00Yes, sir.
00:50:03We're young.
00:50:04It's coming to the game, but you're getting in the game.
00:50:07We're all going to have to be relaxed and relaxed.
00:50:13As you can see, you're behind the plate.
00:50:16You can't see that.
00:50:18Get back.
00:50:19Get back.
00:50:20Get back.
00:50:21Get back.
00:50:23Go ahead.
00:50:27Go ahead.
00:50:29Go ahead.
00:50:40Actually you have to expect the bad calls on the road but not like that
00:51:02Anytime as a coach you see your guys fighting for you and going to war you get emotional and you
00:51:07get fired up
00:51:09They're going to war for me I got to go to war for them
00:51:11Hey you guys better clean this game up
00:51:13You better clean it up right now
00:51:17Asa, Asa, black whistle, black whistle basically means that the referees were paid off
00:51:23It's so common because it's simple, it's easy and it's probably true
00:51:28We had a game on the road I won't say where or what team whatever but
00:51:31We lost by less than 10 points
00:51:36And the owner of the other team which I found out after the fact goes and grabs their head coach
00:51:41And screams at him for about 20 minutes after the game because they only beat us by a certain amount
00:51:47And they had paid 50,000 RMB to the officials so
00:51:50I mean that's frustrating you want to believe that there's an even playing field
00:51:54And you work hard and you do what you're supposed to do that you can compete
00:51:58What are you teaching 19 and 20 year old kids when they work their whole year round to go out
00:52:02there and win a basketball game
00:52:04And it doesn't matter how hard you work it only matters who you know or how much pull you have
00:52:09Like what are we teaching them if that's the case
00:52:12I'm waiting for you
00:52:14Next time
00:52:15Why? What do I do?
00:52:16Don't go out there
00:52:18Don't pass your reference call
00:52:20Next time
00:52:22Next time
00:52:23Next time
00:52:24I didn't touch
00:52:25When I saw the coach's face, the feeling of the coach's face
00:52:29Sometimes it would affect us, it would affect us
00:52:31If the match is not finished, why do we leave the match?
00:52:36Come on
00:52:36John
00:53:06Every player on the stage has a lot of confidence.
00:53:40It's a good game, it's a good game.
00:53:46After the first game, everyone is getting nervous.
00:53:51I want to go, I want to go.
00:53:53I hope I can make a mistake.
00:54:04Go!
00:54:06Go!
00:54:06Go!
00:54:08Go!
00:54:09It's mainly because everyone has a lot of power.
00:54:12It's not to let it go.
00:54:15It's not to let it go.
00:54:16It's not to let it go.
00:54:16So, the victory of the victory is going to me.
00:54:42All right, listen.
00:54:45We got to go do that six more times.
00:54:48We have stuff to work on.
00:54:50We'll figure it out.
00:54:50But it's not about the X's and O's.
00:54:52It's not about the referees or the opponents and the match-ups, all right?
00:54:55It's about that level of concentration, focus, and intensity.
00:54:59Good job.
00:55:01Good job.
00:55:02Good job.
00:55:03Good job.
00:55:04Good job.
00:55:05Good job.
00:55:11Absolutely.
00:55:12Big sigh of relief.
00:55:13Call mom and dad.
00:55:14Go get the critiques on the X's and O's from dad.
00:55:17And maybe a pat on the back if he's feeling good about it.
00:55:21So, definitely a sigh of relief.
00:55:22Just feel good about the win and we can enjoy it for a little bit.
00:55:25Because it would have been a long break had we not gotten it.
00:55:26So, really, really proud of the guys.
00:55:29They played extremely hard in the position they easily could have folded and they didn't.
00:55:33So, very proud of them.
00:56:10And it's so much.
00:56:11Thank you so much.
00:56:11How much?
00:56:13How much?
00:56:14How much?
00:56:17This is also a fake, by the way.
00:56:19Yeah, it's so much.
00:56:21It's so much.
00:56:23It's so much.
00:56:26This is also a fake, by the way.
00:56:28Yeah, Sonic.
00:56:30That's old school.
00:56:33What is that, like 30 cents?
00:56:3650.
00:56:3750, yeah, yeah.
00:56:39They're going to hustle me.
00:56:44I get back to my room.
00:56:45It's like, yeah, like 1 o'clock in the morning,
00:56:47and I hear some, like, scuttlebutt going on down the hall,
00:56:50so I walk down, I peek in.
00:56:52It's J.K., Wei, and Jeremy.
00:56:54They're all in the room playing NBA 2K13.
00:56:56Like, Coach, come on, come on, play this, play this.
00:56:58So I play them, and we're going through selecting teams,
00:57:01and we come by the 85, 86 Celtics,
00:57:03and I go, greatest team that ever lived, right there.
00:57:06There they are.
00:57:07So I pick them, I play with them, and they're going,
00:57:09Johnson, who's Dennis Johnson?
00:57:11Or who's Bill Walton?
00:57:12Like, they're like, who are these people?
00:57:14So I go, you guys, stay right here.
00:57:15I run back to my room down the hall,
00:57:17and I have the 1986 NBA Finals on DVD.
00:57:218 on the shot clock.
00:57:23Bird's been marvelous.
00:57:28They're just eyes lit up.
00:57:30They were, like, in the fantasy world for a minute.
00:57:32They're watching the short shorts,
00:57:33and all these white guys running around,
00:57:35and Ralph Sampson, 7'5", bringing the ball up,
00:57:38like, dunking on people, and Elijah Wan,
00:57:40and they were just completely, like, baffled
00:57:42and taken in by the whole thing.
00:57:44Johnson goes in, gets the basket in the foul.
00:57:47I sat there, we watched the whole game together,
00:57:49and we were laughing, and it was a good time.
00:57:51Sideline, they spread out to defense.
00:57:53Beautiful fast break.
00:57:54Bird, green.
00:57:55Dying by Mrinn and I Feldman,
00:58:18the
00:58:19They have a very small chance to win the game,
00:58:21but the goal is that they have to win the game in the final match.
00:58:26Of course, this is not easy to do for young players,
00:58:30but the reason for young players is that they have a lot of fun and a lot of fun.
00:58:39Bayi is the military team.
00:58:42They're difficult because there's a lot of pride that goes into the military team
00:58:46and their success or failure.
00:58:47And the referees understand that.
00:58:50We also know that when we face Bayi,
00:58:51the players' opposition政策 will have a little bit of a change.
00:58:55Any game with Bayi, you're only allowed to use one import at a time.
00:58:58So it makes your lineups a lot more challenging.
00:59:00You get into a certain rhythm the whole season, then you play them,
00:59:03and now your lineups are all different.
00:59:08Coming in, everyone knew that this Bayi game was going to be extremely important.
00:59:12They were in the race with us. They were right around the same spot.
00:59:15I think we were tied for 10th place.
00:59:16We couldn't lose that game.
00:59:39We're up six with about maybe a minute left.
00:59:42They hit three big threes to go up in the game.
00:59:47We're up six with about maybe a minute left.
00:59:53like wow you know that was it and then call the time out we got trapped the ball
01:00:10we made a contested three after dribble that was unbelievable
01:00:19shab is a warrior we expect shab to go out every night and battle which he does
01:00:27we tried to ride that high and win in overtime
01:00:32you gotta give value credit they played they played very well
01:00:41you didn't need a three but you know there was four seconds left it could have been time
01:00:47he could have you know passed it up
01:00:53but i think no one got down on jay-z people encouraged him he hasn't been in a situation
01:00:58to take the big shots you know he's still a young kid he needs experience you know he
01:01:04needs confidence if he made that shot maybe you know would have turned his career around
01:01:07but he i think putting him into those situations it'll be good for him you know he needs that
01:01:18it was probably the toughest loss for us of the season
01:01:40after the game they come into the locker room and tell me you know we warned you we want you
01:01:44to play
01:01:44more players so you know we're not going to let you coach the team anymore
01:01:48you're going to still be running practice you're still going to do all the film you're still going
01:01:52to do all the scouting you're going to do all the game preparation you're going to do the walkthroughs
01:01:55you're going to go to the press conferences but we're going to let the chinese team manager coach
01:02:00the teams during the game because he'll play more players and that's what we want
01:02:03and you know i kind of sit there my head's spinning like is this real life right now
01:02:08stop stop stop stop stop hold on
01:02:16i think one of the things you realize when you're in china and trying to get things done is that
01:02:21the kind of hierarchy and bureaucracy is it's very thick and it's very difficult to navigate if you
01:02:28don't understand what you're participating in so you know unfortunately it's probably not that
01:02:34great of a surprise that he found himself subject to these the whims of those higher up than him
01:02:42he fell victim to the nature of this league and that is when you lose a couple games in a
01:02:47row the
01:02:48nature of this league is you know you got to make a change i never get a bump in salary
01:02:53never get a
01:02:54bonus increase anything like that there i am running around like a maniac doing two people's jobs i'm
01:02:59the head coach and the assistant coach i have no help i'm pouring my heart and guts and soul into
01:03:04this
01:03:04team and you're gonna take it away from me because i'm six and five and you guys had a six
01:03:09and eleven team
01:03:10that i took over and i'm just baffled
01:03:41uh you know i miss my family obviously you know my friends able to go out to a bar with
01:03:46my buddies and
01:03:47fist bump to a born in the usa or something like that but uh yeah maybe i was a little
01:03:53bit crazy for going
01:03:54i left behind my family who loves me and the girlfriend who everyone said i should have married
01:04:00you know i kind of put that all on hold for my career you know i talked it over with
01:04:13my parents
01:04:13that night and basically we came to the conclusion that if i take a back seat and i don't coach
01:04:18the
01:04:18teams during the game just the perception around the league is that i screwed up there's some sort of
01:04:24baggage with this kid why did they take the team from when they've never been successful and he's being
01:04:30successful and so i called back and i said if that's the way they feel about me and they're not
01:04:36happy with me then do a buyout for my contract and i'll go home
01:04:42next morning we're leaving on a two-game road trip to g-land and then lowning 8 a.m rolls
01:04:47around about
01:04:48to jump on the bus and i got my backpack so i'm like all right we can go talk about
01:04:52it at the airport the
01:04:52president will be at the airport we'll talk about it at the airport
01:04:57i basically tell them i'm not getting on that plane if it's not my team if it's my team and
01:05:02you
01:05:02believe in me then great we'll move forward just like we were if not you don't believe in me i'm
01:05:08gonna go home no hard feelings but there's no there's no doing things halfway
01:05:14and basically they said okay we'll let you coach the team we don't want you to leave you can coach
01:05:20the team during the games but you have to listen more to coach sheer about the substitution patterns
01:05:26the problem that i see is that the cba is trying to develop the chinese players at the professional
01:05:32level they need to be developed long before they get to the professional level so you have these imports
01:05:37coming in that are taking all the attention in the game away from the chinese players that you're
01:05:41trying to develop when in a sense they should already be a complete player at that point and by that
01:05:46time it's a little bit too late to develop them so if winning really is the goal at the professional
01:05:50level then you should rely on the imports because they're going to help you win
01:05:54i think this is not an outside problem
01:05:58i think this is important in the United States
01:06:00this is the biggest that the experts are most popular
01:06:03they have brought lots of new ideas
01:06:05i think they need to help us again
01:06:06some new ideas
01:06:08of course
01:06:09how to fit the world and the world how to come together
01:06:12and how to come together
01:06:14the world in which the world will be more effective
01:06:17the ability of the world is to stop
01:06:18this is what we always have to think about
01:06:37In the US, in NBA, in Hall of Fame, I always, always moved, you know, even if you made mistakes,
01:06:45people still remember what you did on the court, you know, I mean, it's a history.
01:06:50You can't, you can't deny history, but in China it's a different place, you know, a lot of players, in
01:06:59my generation, even these photos, they don't keep it, because there's a lot of unpleasant memories, so they don't want
01:07:05to remember all these things, but I do, even if it's unpleasant, I still, I still want it, but this
01:07:12history is rejected by China, I disappeared, as far as they're concerned.
01:07:19I think back then, what motivated me, you know, a lot is to travel the world, you know, to see
01:07:28things, to ask questions, to think about things, you know, and keep my mind busy,
01:07:32so I don't get overwhelmed by, you know, what I have to confront every day, you know, so I think
01:07:40some other things, rather than be controlled by the political study sessions and the education camps, you know, all that
01:07:48stuff, you know.
01:08:03Oh, I'm glad I did what I did.
01:08:06Take a look.аже
01:08:25.com Let's
01:08:27go.
01:08:39So the game that technically kicked us out of the playoffs was at Lowning, which is a difficult place to
01:08:44play.
01:08:45They're very good. You know, it's just tough to start in a hole, you know, when you take over a
01:08:50team of 6 and 11.
01:08:52And changing the culture, you know, almost immediately is a very difficult thing to do.
01:08:57And since that time going 9 and 6, I mean, I think that was a decent job all around for
01:09:04everybody that was involved.
01:09:07So, let's go.
01:09:18So, let's go.
01:09:57I tried to get across the message to those guys that anytime you step on the floor,
01:10:02you as an individual are forming your reputation.
01:10:06And even if it's a meaningless game, if you can prove to other people that, you know, you can go
01:10:10out in any situation,
01:10:11try to win, be a winner, take a game seriously even when there's not much on the line, you're a
01:10:16valuable asset to any team.
01:10:31Yeah, I could hear. There's only a few people in the gym that can kind of understand what he's saying.
01:10:36Come on!
01:10:37We're Portuguese of ancestry.
01:10:39Yeah.
01:10:39And we get very excited, very, very excited, very animated people.
01:10:48We were a little anxious about him being that far away from home.
01:10:52We just don't know much about the country at all, so it was just a little nerve-wracking.
01:10:56I was scared. I'm still scared. But I was happy. I was happy. At least he was going to keep
01:11:00going with what he's trying to do.
01:11:03Let's go, guys. We've got to get stuck.
01:11:04Come on. Come on. Come on.
01:11:07It's very easy as an assistant coach to sit back and know what the head coach should do.
01:11:13When you are out there on the sideline by yourself, you really are on an island, you have things going
01:11:19through your mind between match-ups.
01:11:21Who plays well together for our guys? How many fouls do the guys on our team have?
01:11:25Who's in foul trouble on their side? Who do we want to put in pick and rolls?
01:11:28You can't even begin to respect the difficulty of being a head coach until you've been there on the sideline.
01:11:35It's really amazing. And I was very naive in that respect.
01:11:58It's really amazing.
01:12:03Being in front of those guys and getting them to believe in you, not only just getting across the message
01:12:07of what you need them to do,
01:12:08but getting them to believe that it's going to work and believe in you, that is probably the most valuable
01:12:14thing I've learned.
01:12:15If you are, do yourself.
01:12:18Winners.
01:12:19Winners.
01:12:20Winners.
01:12:21Everyone across this league, now, right now, today, when they hear the name of your team, they hear a foul
01:12:26shot,
01:12:27they understand that you are a team to do record.
01:12:30Yeah, that's all.
01:12:31I think that's all.
01:12:32I think that's all.
01:12:35I think that's all.
01:12:38I think that's all.
01:12:50I think that's all.
01:12:57My last days in China were, it was kind of down. I was pretty down.
01:13:02You know, I had gone on this rollercoaster ride and all of a sudden it's over.
01:13:10You spend every day, every second, thinking about the next game or the next practice or the next opponent,
01:13:15and then all of a sudden there is no next game.
01:13:22You guys playing? Next?
01:13:24Yeah.
01:13:25Okay.
01:13:25I have, I have after you guys.
01:13:52I'll see you next time.
01:13:52I'll see you next time.
01:14:09Bye.
Comments