http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-30-6...rus-Thomas.html <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>One of the issues you have faced so far in your career has been uncertainty about minutes. Do you have a sense from the coaching staff of what you have to do get more reliable playing time? Is there something they want you to do that you're not doing? [Shakes head, palms to the sky, which I take to mean he wishes he knew what the coaches wanted.] You were the fourth overall pick, and I know that everyone drafted that high wants to arrive and instantly be the star. Instead you have had ups and downs. How do you feel about how things have gone so far? I feel like it will help me a lot. I'm 21, and I'm getting some of my tough times out of the way early. I get frustrated at times, but you have to look at the big picture. Nobody judges you by the first two years in the league.</div>
Nobody judges you by your first 2 years in the league. Wasn't that originally said by Yaroslav Korolev? Meh. I don't know whether he's clueless or the coaches are clueless or both. I also wonder if the interviewer was simply mistaken and the "palms to the sky" jesture was just some sort of creepy voodoo dance that people seem to be doing for warm up when working with kids these days:
