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Little Things at Training Camp

In Training by Brock Bourgase

“Homer Goes to College” Homer made a bookshelf out of four planks and six cinder blocks: Marge: Homer, we have a perfectly good bookcase. Homer: Yeah, but this is what they’re doing on campus. Besides, it isn’t costing us: I swiped the cinderblocks from a construction site. Meanwhile, at the construction site: Worker: Sir, six cinderblocks are missing. Boss: There’ll be no hospital, then. I’ll tell the children. Neither passing nor cutting are what they used to be and motion offences are suffering as a result. But there’s a nice bookcase next to the bench by the pick-up court. In the N.B.A. During training …

High Ball Screen into Flare Screen

In Plays by Brock Bourgase

Down a point, the Celtics draw up a play involving their big three with multiple options (iso for Pierce, high post jumper for Garnett and three-point shot for Allen).  By keeping every player moving, Boston does not allow New York to pack the paint. Kevin Garnett frees Paul Pierce with a pindown.  Ray Allen inbounds to Pierce and sets a Guard-to-Guard screen for the ball.  Garnett then sets a flare screen to create an open shot for Allen.  Rajon Rondo and Glen Davis space the floor along the baseline.  Garnett whiffs on his screen on Toney Douglas but the defender …