<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Hubie Brown believes in Jason Williams, in spite of his rocky past. "He's a different dude than you think," Brown, the Memphis Grizzlies coach, said of his star guard. Williams returned to Sacramento this week to face the Kings, the team for which he played three seasons after they selected him with the seventh overall pick in the 1998 NBA draft. Brown had to answer many of Williams' skeptics at Arco Arena, but the coach was quick to point out that Williams has come a long way in six pro seasons since he was a young rookie out of Florida. Williams has cursed at fans and had other emotional tirades. "Is he a different guy than when he was here?" Brown said. "Look, he's 28 years old now, he's married, he has a 2-year-old son. I think there are more things in the formula than people want to look at. The bottom line is the player always has got to want to do the change." The Grizzlies just don't want him to change too much on the court - aside from continuing to focus on playing better on the road and penetrating into the paint in transition instead of settling for a pull-up 3-pointer. "I've been around pro basketball a long time, coached a lot of great players," Brown said. "This guy has one of the highest IQs that I've been around. He sees all 10 people, he catches every call by the opposition and relays it to the bench. He has excellent recommendations out of offenses and defenses that we're doing. He's totally in tune since the first day I came here. ... "And we still think there's another level for him to go to, and we're constantly prodding for that. We're not satisfied. We feel he's got a whole other step he can give because there's no one in the game - from circle to circle - quicker in basketball than him." During his decades in basketball, Brown has learned not to judge his players. "I remember when everybody cringed when I went to New York and two days before we opened up we traded Sugar Richardson, one of the most popular players, for Bernard King," Brown recalled. "Everybody said, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you guys doing here?' Perfect citizen. Second year led the league in scoring, third year was leading the league in scoring. Shot it at 56 percent. His percentage was astronomical. ... Never late, never fined, great team player, an assassin in the last 30 seconds of every game. Never talked. "Now, I don't prejudge anybody. I learned a great lesson with that because I didn't prejudge him. I let him come to us and then fit in what we were doing."</div> http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/sports/basket...p-7498337c.html
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Nice...Anybody catch the article in ESPN the magazine about J-will and Hubie?</div> <font color="DarkRed">Na I did not catch it. Was it good?</font>
Yeah it was pretty good, I don't have it on me but I might drop some quotes from it in the coming days.
