RUDY BLOG (VIA MARCA.COM)

by amlmart1 on Jan 5, 2010 7:24 AM PST

FREE TRANSLATION:

Hello again. I´m writing just after having had dinner with Marc Gasol, who´s come to Portland with his team for the next game against the Blazers. I´m going to tell you how this day went on. We met each other for the first time when we were 10 or 12 years old. We were born the same year and have been playing together for the Spanish and Catalan national teams all our life. So he came to my home for lunch and we´ve passed afternoon and evening together. After lunch we were playing to a soccer videogame and I won´t tell you how much time we spent playing because I feel embarrassed. But I´m going to tell you some stories. Marc is a dirty player. He came and told me: “It´s been a lot of time since I haven´t played, so you get a bad team and we can play more evenly.” To my surprise he has been playing a lot in his home, so he defeated me easily. What a sucker! I became very annoyed. We both are fiercely competitive. So He started winning and we kept playing games. Another, and another, and another.... Too many games. Only to make it clear: in the last game he played with the Barcelona and I picked up the Real Madrid . I won 3-0, two goals by Ronaldo and one by Benzema. Then we watched the Atlanta-Miami and went out for dinner to a Japanese. As I´m still injured (by the way, I think I´ll be ready to play by the 1-18), I won´t be able to play against him, and even though we´re friends, there´s no friendship on the court. Many times I´ve thought what might happen if Marc would get into a fight with one of my teammates. I think I´d try to calm him down and that´d be all. But, of course, if I could make a dunk on his face I would. And I would be a whole month rub it in, as he does when he wins playing video games. He´s a bad winner! But I´m realistic: I know it´s almost impossible to dunk on Marc´s face because the blow I´d receive would be incredible. There´s a lot of talking these days about the "Gilbert Arenas and the guns" incident. In the locker room there´s been some talk, but not much. The culture about guns here it totally different from Spain´s. They say it´s about defense. Anyway, I seriously doubt that something similar might happen in my team. . In fact. I can´t imagine who, among my teammates, might have a gun. Portland is a very quiet town, but, for example, the other day I was going to go out of a restaurant and the police didn´t let me go because in the next street there´d been a gunfight. That´s marked on me now (he can´t forget it). There´s good security in the NBA (in every trip there´s security personal provided by our franchise, for example), but I´ve never felt I wasn´t safe. Sometime at home, because it´s big, you get scared if you heard some strange noise, but nothing else. What I´m sure about is that I never had a gun. For gunfights I have the Playstation.

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sweet

good to hear his opinion about the Arenas incident and the comparison at Portland. thanks amlmart!

by medmelon on Jan 5, 2010 7:40 AM PST reply actions

Thanks amlmart1

Rudy just needs to go to a gun range and then he’ll start packin’ some heat.

I'm not saying Miller is better than Blake or that Blake should start over Miller, all I'm saying is Miller the on the court Zach Randolph of point guards.

by tominhawaii on Jan 5, 2010 7:44 AM PST reply actions

Great translation! I'm impressed.

Only one detail, Rudy says (about Marc):
“So he came to my home for lunch, with me and my parents, and we´ve passed afternoon and evening together…”
For me this detail is important, says a lot about their relationship. Can you imagine Rudy’s mom cooking for the two giants as if they were 17 again? lol

by Blogaddict on Jan 5, 2010 7:47 AM PST reply actions

thanks for the translation.

I hope Rudy slipped something in to Marc’s food that will make him somewhat ill for tonight. it’d be good payback for the beatdown Rudy appears to have taken on video game soccer.

all my jokey jokemaking just looks weird now :(
by DrivetheLane on Jan 4, 2010 5:52 PM PST

not to me :)
by fanfaraway on Jan 4, 2010 5:54 PM PST

by DrivetheLane on Jan 5, 2010 8:03 AM PST reply actions

funny!!

by Natsthecat on Jan 5, 2010 12:20 PM PST up reply actions

love getting a glimpse into the everyday world of these guys

good stuff.

favorite lines:

But, of course, if I could make a dunk on his face I would. And I would be a whole month rub it in

For gunfights I have the Playstation

How did you guys win that?
"We scored enough points. We scored 107, they scored 105.
-Nate McMillan Postgame, 3/4/2009

by douglast on Jan 5, 2010 8:50 AM PST reply actions

"There's no friendship on the court"...

…I’m going to say this before every game of badminton from now on.

by Bart King on Jan 5, 2010 8:51 AM PST reply actions

thanks amlmart

Sig!!!!!!!

But, of course, if I could make a dunk on his face I would.

RUDY > MJ

by Rudiculous on Jan 5, 2010 9:15 AM PST reply actions

Dunk on his face

Rudy should ask Juwan to do it. I’d love to see that!

by blazersrmyteam on Jan 5, 2010 9:31 AM PST reply actions

"I'll be ready to play by the 1-18"

I hope this isn’t a euro-style date.

by Epimenides on Jan 5, 2010 12:13 PM PST via mobile reply actions

Thanks Amlmart. There are so many great guys on this team that it makes

it impossible to choose favorites. I love it!

#52

by annthefan on Jan 5, 2010 12:33 PM PST reply actions

Rudy is the best!

by In Walks Rudy on Jan 5, 2010 12:43 PM PST up reply actions

Awesome

Keep the faith.

by fajunga on Jan 5, 2010 1:47 PM PST reply actions

Heehee, Rudy is scared of ghosts

He thinks a Frankenstein monster is going to get him in his big house!!

Sometime at home, because it´s big, you get scared if you heard some strange noise

Sounds like he needs a gun to feel more secure.

Morty Pie

#52

by Mortimer on Jan 5, 2010 2:22 PM PST reply actions

or a big dog

When reached 40 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!

by two4larue on Jan 5, 2010 3:41 PM PST up reply actions

or two guns

Witty Unpredictable Talent and Natural Game

by iDea on Jan 5, 2010 4:30 PM PST up reply actions

Or he could just get an Avatar!

Keep the faith.

by fajunga on Jan 5, 2010 4:56 PM PST up reply actions

Or two big dogs with guns attached to their heads!

#52

by Mortimer on Jan 5, 2010 11:35 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs

Or Gilbert Arenas!

by thetsaiguy on Jan 6, 2010 2:23 PM PST up reply actions

Rudy is the spanish Huckleberry Finn, very entertaining story.

by BRoyInThe4th on Jan 5, 2010 4:39 PM PST reply actions

He's a real entertainer, even when he's not trying to be

It's Brandon Roy's world and we're only renting space We don’t like him—we’re only on his side so he doesn’t dunk on us in front of our co-workers, wives, girlfriends, mistresses and children.
-Correction It’s B Rex’s world and Brandon’s just keeping it warm until The Coming
by OhOhOden

by SandyTrailBlazer on Jan 5, 2010 5:18 PM PST reply actions

Rudy is so awesome. I hope he is back by the 18th…. funny how he and Marc had dinner together though.

by lawalteral14 on Jan 5, 2010 5:19 PM PST reply actions

Thanks!

Too bad he didn’t keep Marc up late enough playing video games to play badly … I was at the game and, as usual, Marc was doing his thing and doing it well. At least Rudy will be back by the time we play the Griz again!

by somanluna on Jan 5, 2010 11:13 PM PST reply actions

Nice work

I haven’t seen much of you lately. Glad you are still here. (I don’t venture into the JD mostly.)

I always appreciate your translations. I am interested that there are police accompanying every outing by the team members. A reasonable precaution to take for the money (I assume they hire off-duty police).

"I could almost fall asleep when he's got the ball," Demopoulos said of Roy. "That's how comfortable I feel with him. He always comes through."

by lee3022 on Jan 6, 2010 1:22 AM PST reply actions