Interview with danish talent Jonas Zohore

You are one of the talents (born 91) coming out of Denmark, what are you plans for the future?

My plans are going to the NBA, euroleague or ACB It all depend on me and the daily practices...

You are playing on in spain as a profesional, how did that happen for you??

Well my ass coach Nemanja who was Head coach of 79érs 2 years ago helped me..He got a contract here, and gave me a chance to play here.. he knew the serbian coaches here and soon i was on a tryout one summer, everything worked good out after those daye! 

What are your thought after playing pro ball in spain for more than half a season, whats the differences and so on?

There are a lot of differences. first of all just to have 4 coaches arround you on practice, telling you what to do, explain and giving you advices helps a lot.. Basketball is a lot bigger and more serious than back home in Denmark.. here is the 2énd most played sport after football. Here is not only the 2-3 players from US who can bring and give some to the team, a lot of teams have a long bench who gives some important and good to there teams, including young players deffently young players..Then if you are a young player, i would recomend Spain. Spain is diffently the place to be if you want to get further in you karrier as a pro player. the oppoutunities is way higher down here, a lof of good players, league and scouting and so..And the level og leagues high.
Im lucky to have some excelent coaches who has a lot of exsperience and contacts. I almost have some NBA scouts or European scouts coming to oure club every 2 week waching our system, practice and games.. That not something you just get, defently not in Denmark! Only something you can admire and be honored and lucky to have!

You have been with the youth nationalteams several times, can you tell the world a little bit of some great experiences playing international with the nationalteam?

I started play basketball as 15 years old. now im soon 20.. my first apperance to the youth national team, was as a 2 year player at U-16 after that i have been there since. geting to play against a lot of good countries, teams and good players.. the best succses i had, was with the national team was my 1 year with U-18 in Hungary, we end up, as number 8 out of 20 teams. in that fact it were my 1 European championship and i remember how excited and a little nervous i was.. It was also the year were a lot of great players attended, while some of them now are playing Euroleague or NBA..This summer im maybe going for the last time, as youth player to Bosnien in Sarajevo with U-20.. I just not clear about my plans during this summer..
The other thing is, you cant exspect not to end up ranging over number 14 when u dont have a serious schedule and planification about the national team. to have 5 practices during a preparation for European championship is so not pro.. even placing 2 of the days in one week, and then wait 2-3 weeks for next practice and without frindly games is hopeless!

What skill are you working extra hard on right now?

A lot. im doing a lot of repeating in lowpost. such as reading defence, hookshots, fadeaway shots, dribble shots.. Also shots from outside the post, one or two dribble from 3 pointline and finishing, kevindurant style..

Quick 6 favourites
Favourite team in Europe? I never really like these question, beacause i dont have a real answer to them.. but i wacht a lof ot ACB and Euroleague, and you need to admire the game og Barcelona. and i also like Real Madrid as they are the team I see most while im living near to centrum.
Favourite player in Europe?

Favourite team in NBA? I like Wizards and Boston
Favourite player in NBA? I most say Dwight howard as one of them, I also like Javale Mcgee beacause i see myself playing like him.. Amare stoudemire i like to, I could keep going, lebron james, derrick rose, kevind durant and so on..

Favourite team in College? DONT HAVE ANY. not into college ball.. Not in my future list

What tips would you give to other younger players trying to fulfill their dream in becoming a pro basketball player?

Make the right choices, work hard, belive that you can do what you want, play everywhere, playing games and asking yourself why u practice? but same time be humble, not everything goes well.. If you dont already work everyday then ask youself if that is what you really want to do..

Any tips to coaches about handling young players that you can give?

Make them discipline and that they respect you even if they dont like you.

Morning sun and ankles breaking

 Well, not so much about basketball maybe, but still like in most things I find a angle to get some thoughts of basketball. Basketball is played with passion, skills and in most cases better when you feel good as a human.

Sometimes you can be a little bit down as a player for playing bad, as a coach for loosing to much and all you need is a little sign, words spoken or something little that will change you back ind gear.

Well this morning when a walked to work I was tired in pain and feeling I should never had left the bed. I came to my work and got this as a view just outside the store I work in.

This changed my mood totally and the whole day went pretty fast and all cause of some lights with other elements in the sky creating this faboulus view.

Maybe its a word from your coach, from a friend, or its just you deciding how your day will be, but it sure is easier when you get some help to make this day as great as possible. Today the sky helped me.....

Another thing thats makes me happys i anklebreakers actually more than dunks in most cases. Some nice videos from youtube

Post All Star Weekend....

All Star weekend has passed and I managed to watch 3 different All Stars events during this weekend. I didn`t watch everything of course, but parts of NBA`s, Danish and Swedish All Star events.

Watching NBA`s all star event like kills the other All Star events in so many ways. But I still believe its very important to have those events for lots of reasons, but then you always can discuss how to do them and so on....

I have had one of those rare totallt free basketballweekends in the last 17 years, but yes like you read above a watched some on TV:e and internet.

Today its tuesday and I have practise with boys 98 whick always is the highlight of my week, the keep me smiling true a tough period in my life. Here is one example last weel was winterbreak here in Denmark and many was on skitrips and so on. When I came to practise last thursday I had no clue how many we where gonna be on the practise. There was 8 players out of 17 ready to practise, but the fun part that put a smile on a very tired coach was, when I was told that most of them had been in the gym since 13:00 and our practise started at 16:00.

When players at this early age already practise by themself, without any coach telling them to do it, you know you have something special. Then there is a will and not something forced by coaches to practise extra. Promising but to early to say what it will lead to, but there is a smile on my face every practise cause I know I´m captain of this ship and my job is so much more simple when the boats floats by itself.

Todays practise wil be a little special so I hope everybody show up. We will have visit by 2 of the best players from our leagueteam Hørsholm 79ers, which are currently on 4th position in the league. They will run some drills and talk with them.....a perfect restart after the winterbreak and little extra motivationboost for the players.

Swedish All-Star Weekend on Webb TV

Swedish all star weekend is arranged in Sundsvall and the feeling from way over here in denmark is that they have made an effort to do something special.

I tried so hard to stay up last night to watch the Blake dunkcontest, but failed at the last seconds falling asleep. But he won, but should he have done that? I was actually disapointed in his choice of dunks.....But NBA marketing works in mysteriuos ways.

Here is a link to Swedish All-Star on webb TV, they start airing at 18:00 Swedish time..
Swedish All-Star - Sundsvall

Today its 3 competitions, 3 point, dunk and skills challenge, the all star game is aired on monday.

All Blake Griffin Weekend - NBA All Star

Well, most basketballfans knows that this weekend its All-Star mania in the USA and over the world, a big event with so many things happening.

NBA`S all star games has not really got me hooked at all. Yes, I love the event and how its done, but I have always had a problem with games not played hard and with that real competition and unless its the Harlem Globetrotters playing their games this way, its just not for me.

I will though watch highlights of Blake Griffin and I will watch the 3point competition and the others like the Blake Griffin dunk contest,the only way he can`t win that is if NBA tells him not to win.

It will not even be a competition, but more of a show off what this monster can do.
I hope he does something like this shown in the video here under, game over!

The one thats nr 1 in the video would be a great final dunk :-)

The net is full of interesting things

A couple of days ago a got this webpage sent to me by a coach from Sweden. I haven`t seen it before, but maybe its not new to you, but I think its great at least.

I remember when I started coaching at 16 I had tons of videotapes with games from the NBa and I started going throught them and drawing plays that they did in the games. I gattered them in a map and I had several plays from each team. When I moved to denmark I found that map again after not seeing it for many years.

Som call it crazy, some call me a nerd, me I`m just glad I have a passion for something. I just need to learn to controll the passion like in every relationship to much is to much :-)

Take a look at this great site, click on the picture.

5 games after eachother

Monday the 17th is a great day ub denmark for everybody who has the channel DK4, they show 5 games after eachother from the NBA with first game at 19:00.

My 98 boys will get togother home at one of the players hom to watched the first game together.
19:00 NBA: Knicks – Suns
21:30 NBA Pistons – Mavericks
00:30 NBA Clippers –Lakers
02:00 NBA Celtics - Magic
04:30 NBA Lakers – Oklahoma

One of the games its only the second half, but this is GREAT!

Thanks to Dk4 and their hardcore devoted basketballfreaks working at the channel.

Cryin for me - Wayman Tisdale

Former great basketplayers Wayman Tisdale died in 2009 many years to early as a basketballplayer he ad som glory years and in 2007 he decided to go for music which was his other passion.

You can read more about Tisdales life here

As you see one of his legs is gone in the pic and that knee was amputated after they discorvered cancer in his knee.

He was great friends with artist Toby Keith and he wrote a great song to him after he died.

Listen to this song and you can feel the love and pain between to friends.

I`m not religous

But GOD has something against me :-)

Just something I thought about while using a whole roll of toilette paper to blow my nose the whole day.
Since I haven`t been out much the last week or so, I decided to take a little walk to a gym near by where I live to get my body som activity and also to check out the gym.

I was suppose to have practises there already in september, but a enormous rainy day smashed that and destroyd the floor in the gym, so this was actually the first time I have been in that gym.

Its a classic schoolgym where you wonder what the arcitechs thought with when they built it and let me tell you it wasn`t their head. Why build a big gym and put the walls 30cm`s from the basketball lines or for handball the wall becomes the line (but who cares).

Its otherwise a perfect gym I dont know about you, but when I walk into a gym a get a feeling of like or dislike directly and this was clearly a like.

When I coached up in Stockholm I had practises in one of the biggest gyms that I have had practises in. It was also a school gym and enormous, but already wlaking into the gym the first time a got that feeling this is not for me since it felt like they had hidden the gym in maze to get to it.

That feeling was correct it was the biggest but also the worst I ever have coached in since the accostics killed you as a coach. You could stand 3 meters away from a player screaming you loungs out and still he/she could`t hear you. The gym just swallowed whatever you tried to say loudly.....

So every time you had something to say you had to get the team together and talk with them, but that took some time to get them in a cirkel because of the accostics.

Why didn`t you use a whistle?
Well, I hate whistles as much as I hate snow. I think some like using whistles and they are called referees and I`m a basketballcoach :-)

Back to the gym again......I will enjoy having practises there it will be my paradise here in Hørsholm, there are bigger, more baskets in other gyms but this had that good feeling about.

Like the headlines says I`m not religous in other ways than I believe that everybody is their own GOD and there are lots of "judas" around :-)

But last night I watched Blake Griffin play with his Clippers and he must be close to a fictionary monster. He just outworks oppenents and hos body strength is out of this world. I would love to see him and our swedish superstar Jonas Jerebko play together in the NBA, that team would be one of the hardest to beat just because of the simple facts that they work harder than the rest.

Last nights game was his 23rd double double in a row......unless he gets injured and stops early in his NBA career I tell you Karl Malone is in trouble.

Point-rebound[7] Rank Name Numbers 1 Malone, KarlKarl Malone* 779 2 O'Neal, ShaquilleShaquille O'Neal^ 726 3 Duncan, TimTim Duncan^ 695 4 Garnett, KevinKevin Garnett^ 681 5 Olajuwon, HakeemHakeem Olajuwon* 673 6 Barkley, CharlesCharles Barkley* 620 7 Ewing, PatrickPatrick Ewing* 563 8 Robinson, DavidDavid Robinson* 543 9 Mutombo, DikembeDikembe Mutombo 469 10 Willis, KevinKevin Willis 454	Point-assist[8] Rank Name Numbers 1 Stockton, JohnJohn Stockton* 696 2 Kidd, JasonJason Kidd^ 397 3 Nash, SteveSteve Nash^ 374 4 Johnson, KevinKevin Johnson 319 5 Hardaway, TimTim Hardaway 279 6 Johnson, MagicMagic Johnson* 277 7 Strickland, RodRod Strickland 271 8 Jackson, MarkMark Jackson 242 8 Payton, GaryGary Payton 242 10 Marbury, StephonStephon Marbury 210

Thats some crazy records :-)

Triple doubles?

Rank	Name	Triple-doubles
1	Robertson, OscarOscar Robertson*	181
2	Johnson, MagicMagic Johnson*	138
3	Kidd, JasonJason Kidd^	106[27]
4	Chamberlain, WiltWilt Chamberlain*	78
5	Bird, LarryLarry Bird*	59
6	Lever, FatFat Lever	43
7	James, LeBronLeBron James^	31[28]
8	Havlicek, JohnJohn Havlicek*	30
9	Hill, GrantGrant Hill^	29[29]
10	Jordan, MichaelMichael Jordan*	28
11	Drexler, ClydeClyde Drexler*	25
12	Frazier, WaltWalt Frazier*	23
13	Webber, ChrisChris Webber	22
14	Richardson, Micheal RayMicheal Ray Richardson	21
15	Barkley, CharlesCharles Barkley*	20

Ricky Rubio
FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship
2006-08-19 August 19, 2006
Spain vs Croatia

Minutes
33 
Points  
19    
Rebounds
10
Assist
13    
Steals
11    
Blocks
0    
Overtime
No

Now that sick!

Christmas silence has....

...been a big part of my daily life lately, just relaxing and visiting my family in Sweden and thats why My World Of Basketball has been taking very little of my time.

But I can never totally stop doing something with basketball, when I`m free from practises or work there are nobody that beautiful living to make me totally just be normal.

So I have been free since the 23th of december and I`m of course watching games on TV and online and searching the net for great basketball stuff. I have came across some great links and my digital library becomes bigger and better.

Watched the hyped game between Lakers and Miami and I have to say Dwayne Wade did impress me and he has done that in other games also this season. He is carrying that team and if he stays healthy they can make it to the final and maybe also win it, but I believe more in Boston, Lakers, Spurs to win, but liek I wrote if D-Wade stays healthy they have a chance, but if he goes down they are in deep deep trouble.

Lakers are just like Boston cruising the season along and waiting for the playoffs, but still I was very surprised that Lakers played like they did on the pick and roll that was just horrible. Zenmaster Phil maybe just doesn`t give a flying f*ck right now, but that was very ugly. I would be very surprised if thet try to go out in D-Wade again and "hedge", double or whatever they tried to do next game. Thats the wrong kind of player to do that as he proved in the game time after time. He sliced that PAR defense like Jack the ripper.....

Have watched some swedish league games since I came home and can come to the conclusion that tactically we are miles behind, talents are coming but our seniorlevel plays like they are their own coaches and run their own offenses. I`m not just talking about setplays but choices fo shoots, choices of passes and choosing the tempo, when to run and not, inside/outside game using the posts and reading the pick and roll are just some where we are miles behind.

In defense I cant really see somebody being a specialist and it doesn`t look like teams are trying to shut down a shooter on a team with that pain in the ass defense its more just straight up man to man or normal zon.
I havent seen all teams but defense is not trying to make offense change to something else it looks more like they are just accepting and reacting to what they do.

In offense I miss very much and I have written about that before and that are more plays for certain players if you dont have plays for some players you can as a coach make them totally useless since they are not creators, they need a play or somebody else to create for them. To get your players out of a set to do what they are best at....could be shooting, 1vs 1, pick and roll, inside and so on...why have insideplayers if you will not use them as a coach?

Why have the best 1vs1 player in the league if he/she doesn`t get to play 1 vs1 out of a teamconcept in games. Why have the tallest player in the league standing at the freethrow line like a statue, when she/he can only score close to the basket.
Why play fast when you are slow?, Why play slow when you are fast......

Why stay up when I should sleep :-)

Sitting and watching a NBA game

Sunday and its been a very calm day today. I started of today with watching danish U18 nationalteam practise and I have written it before, but there really are some very interesting players in that team.

Now some hours later after some well deserved sleep I´m watching DK4 and the game between Toronto Raptors and Los Angeles Lakers and for the first time since jerebko`s last game I haven`t switched it off. A good game with great sequenses and of course class players like Kobe Bryant and Linus Kleiza.

But back too U18 team and watching their practise I shook my head a couple of times, when I see players not even trying to do what they are supposed to do. I get confused how these players are thinking when they do halfass pushups or dont take the dynamic streching seriously. Do they really think coaches dont see that?

Have they already decided that they will not make the team or are they just "talents" that always have cheated in doing things right, well they will wake up sooner or later and discover that the endstation for them will not be the one that they wanted to end up on and propably stop playing or blame all of their coaches.

And in some sense its their clubcoaches fault, since that attitude should be wiped of the planet, but many "talented" players get away with it since they score their points and do their stuff in youth levels, but there are basketball after youth basketball.

Once again I was alone watching the practise I think thats sad, but at least I had a good time :-)

Last night I tried to watch.....

.......the NBA game between New York Knicks and Toronto Raptors on Dk4 and I got bored once again. Yes, some great dunks and blocks but I guess its just not for me.

Euroleague, Colllege or even the swedish or danish leagues I find more interesting to watch. NBA games there are of course some games if they involve Blake Griffin, Jonas Jerebko or Manu Ginobili then I find it interesting.

I used to wtahc the NBA a lot in my youth and my favourite player in Earvin "Magic" Johnson with his showtime basketball at the forum. The great Lakers team always played enjoyable basketball even when the lost.

Its by the way Magic`s fault that I started with basketball after seeing my first NBA game and he was just incredible and I had found my "hero".

Back in the day I had other favourite players also in;

Michael "Air" Jordan
Isiah Thomas
Charles Barkley
James Worthy
Hakeem "the dream" Olujowon
Larry Bird
Kevin "the man with a billion moves" McHale
Drazen Petrovic

Many players that are great never make it to NBA here is one of them in Raymond Lewis

To dribble or not to dribble, that is the question!?

Well folks, I had a game tonight with my boys team born 98 and we played one of the best teams in denmark in SISU and I`m very happy to be able to say that the things we are working on in practise is getting better and better. It was a vene game where we came out as winners with 58-55 after trailing with 9 points in the last quarter. We finished really strong the last couple of minutes...

Whats "funny" is that we in the 3 period let SISU take a 10 point lead just because we were dribbling the ball so much and we became a one man dribbling show with 4 guys standing and watching. Thats som kind of NBA sickness that is well spred on every level. It doesn`t matter what level you play, when you overdribble the ball you will become very static and easy to defend.

What I`m very happy about is that we came back to playing basketball after that period and moved the ball very well and of course got easier scores and most of all better chances to score.

The strange thing with the dribble is that you see this happening on every level and why I call it NBA sickness is because there you can do it much more and still have success with since you are not allowed to play real helpdefense. You just have to wait out the help to leave the 3 second area and explode to the basket.

LBJ "overdribbling" will not win the NBA

Today was a good day, not because we won (sure helps), but because we did so many right things in this game, so we can go back to practise and continue learning the game, the best game in the world.

What game?

BASKETBALL

Charlie Burgess from Bakken Bears

I have so far during the season watched a lot of games from the danish league and I`m surprised so far how bad some of the importplayers are and even more suprised that mnay of them has played in other teams in denmark before, that means that the coaches/clubs knew what the went for. I simply dont understand.....money, no dont come with that excuse, its not about that its about contacts and good recruiting job to find the really good players.

Was nice to see Bakken bears Charlie Burgess, thats a classplayer and used to right way he would score even more points for his team. Yes, now I`m coaching from the sofa of my apartment, but it doesn`t take a Einstein to see that he is one of, if not the best 1 vs 1 player in the danish league, so simply more 1 vs 1 situation out of a team concept...not NBA style everybody stands and looks at the player witht he ball.

3-4-5 passes with ballmovement from one side to the other and him with the ball...BOOM! score, assist or foul. Would love to coach a player like that, makes the game so simply.

Video is from when he played in finland.

Great games today

If you dont have TV channels that show the games you wanna watch, there is a lot of great streams on the internet. This is todays basketball games online :-)

(If you klick on the picture you will come to the page with links, the links you find to the right of  each game where the arrow is)

Iverson in Besiktas

Well, no news that he is there, but it was nice to see Allen Iverson play real basketball for a change and not the NBA style of play. He had a OK game 15p in 23minutes, but he is not in gameshape really, but he will be I hope.

I watched a little of the swedish womens league game between Solna and Norrkoping, but I became quickly bored af all the dribbling without anycause at all.
So went back to see most of Besiktas vs Hemofarm instead a game thart besiktas had in their backpack, but the coach made som really stupid changes and he kepted Iverson in the bench until like 5 minutes left of the game.
What happened was that they had a comfortable lead, when a of a sudden Hemofarm became on fire from beoynd the threepointline and whoops, they where back in the game and of course with a long 3pointer went up by 2points.
Lesson learned in basketball a 15p lead goes away very quickly, dont celabrate until the game is over. The coaches helped with strange changes and hesitated to change back.
Besiktas learned there lesson with a loss in this game, a very unecessery loss as I see it.

Went back to womens game and all of a sudden Norrkoping came back from 20points down to making it excitning again, but the players in Solna that should take their team on their shoulders did and Solna got the win.

There was a big win in Sweden for Norrkoping Dolphins mens team who beat Turk Telekom in Euro challenge.

Norrköping Dolphins - Turk Telekom 101-89
(41-21, 25-21, 18-20, 17-27)
Norrköping: George Gervin 16, Mikael Linduist 15, Oladapo Ayuba 14, Joakim Kjellbom 14, Tomas Gaidamavicius 12, Anton Saks 10, Polivas Sakinis 9, Joe Mcnaull 6, Andrew Mitchell 5.
Turk Telekom: Anthony Gaffney 24, Yunus Cankaya 23, Heiko Chaffartzik 11, K'zell Wesson 7, Mehmet Yagmur 6, Ceyhun Altay 6, Sani Becirovic 4, Gregory Stiemsma 4, Ümit Türkoglu 2, Adem Ören 2.
Publik: 1 803 (Stadium Arena)

NBA aint the same without......

....our Swedish superstar Jonas Jerebko, who cares about Lebron James and Miami. I`m waiting for Detroit Pistons and JJ33.

Great video, enjoy it!

Once brothers - Vlade Divac and Drazen Petrovic

Great movie in 8 parts about Vlade Divac, Drazen Petrovic, X-Yugoslavia, civil war, NBA and more.

Drazen Petrovic was one of my favourite players in the world, but sadly as you propably know was killed in a carcrash and this gift to basketball, left this earthlife much to early.

Vlade Divac tells the story...great movie

Part 1


Part 2


Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1rsoiDMcMM&feature=related
Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9gCQRVP4HA&feature=related
Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amvYbj09NHY&feature=related
Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAqwDeVVlxo&feature=related
Part 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ6VJClYkGw&feature=related
Part 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJRLgs7xDSM&feature=related

Swedish Basketball TV - Came from love for the game

Swedish Baskettelevision has been a great success in making basketball more available to the Swedish people and to the world. 

The inventor of it is Jakob Törnell. Here in picture next to Sweden’s basketball superstar Jonas Jerebko.

 

Where did the idea come from (please tell more about how it came to a start)?

 - I was constantly searching the web for dunks and highlights from the Swedish Basketball League. When I was searching I discovered that there was basically not a single clip from the league - no highlights, no interviews, no nothing.

So I called SBBF and told them about my idea of creating a site (www.svenskbaskettelevision.se) and a YouTube account so that we could reach out to basketball fans and promote Swedish basketball. SBBF liked the idea. Me and buddy Magnus Stråhle started to work once a week the following six months in order to establish the concept. After that, I´ve been working with Svensk Baskettelevision in my free time. I just love basketball.

The site cost about 15 000 SEK to build and we bought our own video cameras, which we have used to make all the interviews.

Since SBBF is providing WebbTV, we also wanted to air the games at the site. And we did.

Have you felt that you have made a difference for basketball fans around Sweden and what has been said about that?

- Over the years, many people have come up to me and Magnus and given us credit for what we have done. I believe that we have made a difference and that we have promoted basketball in a good way. Not everyone has liked all our work, but I would say that in a whole, people are extremely positive. Since the start of 2007, we have put out over 1000 clips on YouTube and have had over 700 000 viewings. The site itself (www.svenskbaskettelevison.se) has had over 1.4 million viewings.

It looks easy when pros do interviews, but it isn`t that easy right? Please tell us about some blooper moments!

- To start with, neither me or Magnus are pros, we are happy amateurs who love basketball.

I got two really funny moments with the same guy, the NBA player Ben Wallace. It was my first interview with an NBA player and I was really nervous. Ben had just been traded and was about to play his former teammates. So, I stepped up to Ben and asked one of my most stupid questions ever: "Hey Ben, you are going to play you former teammates, how do you feel about that, I mean, do you feel like going out and just punch someone you didn’t like in his face?" Ben looked at me and said: "No". And then he stepped away from me, which I can understand.

The following year when I was in Detroit, I tried to interview him again, when I asked him the question he just looked at me and didn´t answer. I don´t know if he remembered me, but he didn’t like me, that´s for sure. I can understand that, ha ha.

I also got a funny one from the Chicago Bulls. I was interviewing Joakim Noah when one of the workers farted. You can watch it in the interview here.

I, for one, would like to thank you guys at Svensk Baskettelevision very much, for allowing me to watch more basketball games. Do you have any new plans for Svensk Baskettelevision?

- Right now we don´t know what´s gonna happen with the project. We´re not even sure it will be alive after December 31st.

Please give me the links for the best highlights you have made. as you see it, for the Swedish league.

1) Top Ten Dunks  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsjC_NOU8yE

2) Rudy Mbemba 8 points in 25 seconds

http://www.youtube.com/user/Baskettelevision#p/u/73/QSRZVyYbyUs 

3 ) Hammer-dunk by Johan Åkesson 

http://www.youtube.com/user/Baskettelevision#p/search/1/wD05C67MrQA

4 ) En Riktig Man - reverse dunk  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaf__brNQ34&p=D6FF2DDB32FC12AA&playnext=1&index=12

5) Jonas Jerebko put he´s comments on The Top Ten

http://www.youtube.com/user/Baskettelevision#p/u/263/H_9RpW90IDQ

Basketball and music

There is a obvious relationship between basketball and music because its both based on rhythm and flow to be beautiful and succesful. In both genrès people try to play without rhythm and well....lets just say the player without rhythm wont go very high in their basketballcareer and well the other one has to be high on some drugs to like it.

To me basketballmusic is hip-hop or classical music most hard rock songs doesn`t work for me and thats why I hated to play in Helsingborg as a kid. The only played stuff like Metallica on the warmups.....dont get me wrong I like Metallica, but not on the warm up before a game.

But like most other things there are exceptions and one of Metallicas songs a liked to warm up to was Sad But True, but the rest, nope!

One friend of mine from Croatia who has been playing pro ball now for 13 years in many countries around the world told me, that when he as a young player his coach gave him a tape with songs with rhythm (without somebody singing) to listen to whenever he had the chance to.

I had brought the subject up on a education a few years before I knew this player and got some laugh of my "crazy" idèa to help players getting their rhythm with music. Well, when he told me about it I was proud of myself for speaking out about it.I tell you this player is one of the most "rhythm synced" players I have seen play the game. He wasn´t just playing the game, he was dancing to the rhythm of basketball.

Great songs has been made by former basketballplayers and its no surprise that this former swedish player is making great music. He was playing the game with great rhythm and allthough sometimes his heart for the game took over, he still played with rhythm. Former player Nicolas Lunabba now one of the rhythm-makers in the group Ariise.....





There has been and will be many former basketballplayers making a new career with music and most of them in genre RnB or hip-hop.
Why?
Well the played a game with rhythm and they need rhythm in their life......I truly believe that music, dance helped out SHAQ alot in getting his body moving like it did. What this beast did when he was on top with his huge body was as incrediable as his bad freethrowshooting was, but I guess you cant get it all :-)

Remember SHAQ lettin his body go?