RUDY INTERVIEWED BY "GIGANTES" (GIANTS)

by amlmart1 on Aug 21, 2009 7:45 AM PDT

In a long interview published this week by "GIGANTES" (only available in paper, so there´s no link) Rudy talks about many subjects including the Blazers and the Spanish national team. Here you have the quotes about the Blazers:

About Andre Miller: "I think he´s a veteran player who knows very well the NBA and can help us, the young players with short experience in NBA and play offs, a lot, so we can pass some rounds."

About Andre Miller being the kind of point guard who fits very well with Rudy´s game: "That´s something we´ll see when we meet and know each other on the court. What it´s important is that he´s a proved PG who can improve us a lot. Hope he knows his role and helps us to reach our goals for the next year."

About Sergio leaving Portland: "Personally, he was very good for me, because he helped me in every aspect, inside and outside the court. But I look after him and what he was looking for, what he wanted. To have another opportunity, another team, and a coach who could give him the minutes he wants, for playing with that easy we are used to see him. Something McMillan couldn´t do (give more playing time to Sergio). I´m very happy Sergio has a new project."

About his performance in the Olympics, helping him going into the NBA. "Indeed, my performance against USA, dunking on Howard (he didn´t mentioned Howard, but I don´t know how translate: “tener una jugada muy mediatica”), it helped me to get fans´ support in every moment. After that, along the season, my work has been getting better and people have valued it amazingly well."

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Thank you for the translation, amlmart1

You da Man. Glad to read that Rudy is stoked about Andre Miller.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.

by Love on Aug 21, 2009 8:14 AM PDT reply actions

I was amused by

I hope he knows his roll. Makes me think of Rudy going “MINE” and then marking his territory. Translations are interesting things, so I don’t take it seriously, but i definitely was amuse.d

"Fernandez, to my eyes, is the Blazer who walks that walk most comfortably. A lot of Portland's fans (egged on, dare I say, by their local broadcasters) lament things like how Ron Artest or Yao Ming get to hit Brandon Roy's arms.

But I suspect Fernandez sees all that and thinks: We get to hit arms! Cool!"

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-39-135/On-Playoff-Experience.html

by ratbastird on Aug 21, 2009 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions

he has been kind of giving alot of these "gotta get mine quotes"

by mandoman10 on Aug 23, 2009 3:16 AM PDT up reply actions

Thanks amlmart1...

you have no idea how much we appreciate the links and translations. ;-)

"I'm a man, but I can change.....if I have to......I guess." - Red Green

by antediluvian on Aug 21, 2009 8:31 AM PDT reply actions

+1

Backcourt game - 24/7

by pxilpooshr on Aug 21, 2009 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions

Great translation

Thanks!

Also, I believe that “play a game with much media exposure” = “tener una jugada muy mediatica”

by dpeterson on Aug 21, 2009 10:35 AM PDT reply actions

Better translation: "Dunking on Dwight so hard he calls me Spanish Kryptonite."

by MiledAnimal on Aug 21, 2009 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions

Dunking on Superman like I was driving Lois Lane?

Backcourt game - 24/7

by pxilpooshr on Aug 21, 2009 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions

could he have said "metodica"

that he has a very methodical game… I could understand that and is it apt or not?

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour--Ovid

by bow4meow on Aug 22, 2009 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions

"something with much media exposure" is the correct translation for the Spanish adjective "mediatico"

He wasn´t talking about the game though, but about a single play, the dunk on Howard.

by amlmart1 on Aug 22, 2009 5:07 PM PDT up reply actions

thank you amlmart1

molto bene. – Elgin

Without you out there, we're nowhere here

by 22baylor on Aug 21, 2009 1:33 PM PDT reply actions

That's italian, Elgin.

Poor amlmart probably thinks you said “moldy bean.”

by MiledAnimal on Aug 22, 2009 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions

italian and spanish

are understandable to each other if spoken slowly, same with portuguese and read french (don’t know if the frenchies can read spanish thou), all hail the allmighty roman empire!

by Ristlin on Aug 23, 2009 2:20 AM PDT up reply actions