Every year great commercials are proceduced for the Superbowl. This year features a remake of a 1993 McDonalds commercial featuring Michael Jordan and Larry Bird.
Here is the original from 1993:
The followup from 1994 includes Charles Barkley as well:
And this years version, featuring Lebron James and Dwight Howard:
Anybody who is at least somewhat familiar with basketball has heard the name of Phil Jackson and probably knows who he is. Phil Jackson coached the Chicago Bulls, led by Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, to six NBA titles in the nineties. After taking over the LA Lakers, he has coached them to four NBA titles, the latest in 2009.
I own several books, either authored or co-authored by coach Jackson, and in one of his books he mentioned something about the ten-and-two conditioning drill. This drill is a great drill to improve conditioning of the team, but further details were not revealed. Since it has caught my interest I decided to search the internet for some references but I was unable to find them.
As a fan of coach Jackson and the LA Lakers I follow several players and people from the management at Twitter. Unfortunately coach Jackson doesn’t have Twitter, but his girlfriend Jeanie Buss does. So I decided to ask her through a tweet if she could ask coach Jackson for more information about the ten-and-two conditioning drills. Both miss Buss and coach Jackson were nice enough to respond so know I do know what the drill is about.
I find it absolutely amazing one of the best coaches in the NBA history actually took the time to answer the question and relaying that info back to me through miss Buss, who also works for the LA Lakers in management.
To end the post with a basketball related quote, courtesy of Dick Vitale: “Awesome baby! With a capital A!”
It came to my attention I have neglected my blog far to long. As always I tend to forget to update the blog whenever I’m busy doing other things. One of the things I have been busy with is my new computer. As mentioned in this blog I was working on transforming my old case to a new case. I’m happy to report that I actually got the whole setup working (despite some iitial memory problems which have been solved) and it is quite stable.
It sure is a major improvement over the old computer in terms of memory (8Gb) and speed (Quadcore). Not to mention I installed it with Windows 7 64bit and I have to admit I’m quite happy with this. Despite the normal hiccups, like old hardware not being supported and the quest for new drivers, I managed to get around 95% of my setup working again. Only thing left is the webcam which isn’t supported anymore by Logitech. There will be no more drivers for the hardware so I’m hoping to find a generic driver pretty soon.
If you know a solution to install a Logitech Quickcam Messenger under Windows 7 64bit, be sure to let me know.
Today I got confirmation the Dutch trains ride on a track, never on time.
Let’s just leave it at that.
“I realize, you know, it is good to go out and accomplish individual accolades. I’ve done that in my career but my ultimate goal is to win a championship. Your ultimate goal should be to win the state championship. In order for y’all to do that, you can’t do it by yourself. I don’t care how good you are, if you don’t have a team, you ain’t going nowhere. Everbody has to have two feet in the circle man. I’m all about the team, you dig?”
Tracy McGrady at the Brotherhood Adidas Camp
