<div class="entry"> From NetsDaily: <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Josh Boone looked a lot like an after thought among the Net bigs this training camp. The team had gone out of its way to add depth upfront, drafting Sean Williams, signing Jamaal Magloire and Malik Allen. But as Dave D’Allesandro wrote before Friday night’s game, the celebral UConn big man kept plugging away and now, after averaging 10 boards a game for the last three, looks like the solid choice to start.</div></p> </div> Boone's Coming Up Big - Dave D'Alessandro - Star-Ledger</p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> The only question some people around the team have is about his head.</p> Boone is very self-critical, and one mistake tends to send him sideways - for the next play, for the rest of the game, for the next few games. He's working on that.</p> Coaches have a term for these kind of young players: Mopers, they call them.</p> "You know, if I let any kind of mistake bother me, I'm coming off the floor," Boone conceded. "That's been one of the key things that they've been telling me this year - that you've just got to play through everything, you've got to have a really short memory in this game, and if you make a mistake, just make sure it doesn't happen again.</p> "But as far as I know, I'm not anymore. I wouldn't have considered myself a moper last year -- I'm just a little too hard on myself sometimes."</p> "The more he plays, the more he'll outgrow that," Frank said. "It's a rite of passage with any young player. So much of this game is maintaining confidence. With Josh, he might dip his shoulders a little bit, but the more success he has, hopefully the less he does it."</div></p> Wow, never knew that about young players. Figures, we pick up the moper. So...we've got a moper, and a doper!</p>
