<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Gerald Green now appreciates the expression "Be careful what you wish for." Green, a high school star from Houston, insists that his workouts for NBA teams be solo affairs. He and his agent say that's to avoid injury. It didn't avoid exhaustion. Green was reduced to a slow jog in the closing minutes of his audition for the Charlotte Bobcats on Wednesday. This was his first NBA workout, and he'll remember how grueling it was. "I try to go hard, give it my best, and it took all I had out of me," said Green, who laid down on the edge of the court, wilted, after the drills. "I was pretty tired, but if I wasn't tired, I wouldn't be doing it (right). I made sure that I was tired." Actually the Bobcats made sure he was tired. When Green, a 6-foot-8 guard-forward, started cutting corners at the end -- not running all the way to the sideline before catching the ball near the three-point line -- Bobcats coaches shouted to him to do it right. Bobcats coach-general manager Bernie Bickerstaff expected this. The Bobcats run shooting and agility drills simultaneously to find out how players perform when fatigued. Only one player, Connecticut's Ben Gordon, has completed a Bobcats workout solo without wearing down at the end. That's why Bickerstaff says players are better off coming in as part of a group. Green and his agent, Andrew Vye, thought otherwise. "(We) decided it's too big a risk to suffer an injury," Green said. "By me working out (against) somebody, I could turn an ankle or an ACL (a knee ligament)."</div> Source
