<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><span id="default"><span id="CCT_Article">LAIE, Hawaii -- Last season, the first practice of Warriors training camp featured masking tape on the floor. The lines were meant to help Golden State's players more easily assimilate the concepts of coach Don Nelson's fast-break attack. This year, with a core of players who already know the system, Nelson has been able to increase the speed with which he implements the playbook.</p> "When (Mickael) Pietrus gets here, I'll have eight players who were here last year," Nelson said. "We've got a lot of new guys, but most of them are veterans and know what they're doing."</p> Training camp invitee Pat Burke, who spent the previous two seasons with Phoenix, said there were many similarities, especially in terms of spacing, to what he was used to running with the Suns.</p> Veteran forward Austin Croshere, who played in Dallas under former Nelson disciple Avery Johnson, sees the lineage between the two coaches, at least when it comes to defense. As for the offense, that's another story.</p> "We really just put in our fast break (Tuesday), and it is a little uncommon to just work on the fast break (over a whole day), but given our style of play, it's not too surprising," Croshere said. "When you watch it on TV, it looks like it's organized chaos a little bit, but when you come out here, you see there is a method to the madness."</p> The increased pace doesn't help the team's four rookies. "They're just going to have to figure it out," Nelson said.</div></p> Source: Contra Costa Times</p> </span></span></p>
