dagger wrote:mad-mo wrote:I doubt it.. Jose, Hedo, Rasho are visibly interactive with everyone else.. Marco at times too. Seems like its Andrea here and not all the Euro's.. he just seems to be a quiet dude with no emotion
Nobody has "no emotion". And we've seen him display emotion. He's not the emotive type - a lot of guys are more introverted in public. But we know every team has cliques. The singles don't hang out with the marrieds, the young guys don't hang out with the older vets, etc. It's just a matter of establishing good lines of communication, which I consider part of the job of the coaching staff.
I would have liked to see this issue addressed in October, not December.
When the team went to Italy for training camp, there seemed to be good communications between the different groups, but since we have nine new guys, I don't think you can assume that they would overcome cultural differences without a little "group therapy".
yep yep, but I get the feeling it has more to do with sensivity rather than communication. I think one of the guys pointed it out in one of the other interviews about players being cautious towards calling out each other because certain players are sensitive.
If you read through Bosh's quote "Sometimes you're going to want to call somebody out if they don't rotate (on defence). Instead of calling somebody out because they didn't do their job or they're not playing hard, we kind of just kept it quiet." - out of that I automatically get the sense that he's afraid to hurt someones feelings.
I remember watching a Bargnani interview a while back and he was asked "How was your reaction to Bosh yelling at you" (refering to the golden state game as a rookie).. and Andrea replied "I was a rookie, I couldn't tell him to shut up"
not just isolating out Andrea here but I get the sense that he's who everyone is referring to (Antoine Wright mentioning Italy, and Bosh mentioning rotation). Hopefully he comes out tonight and ready to take step up to the challenge as our anchor on defense
