Is Blake Griffin soft?

[doublejs07]

This is more impressive than the dunk he had last season....I didn't know he could run that fast.

 

[im not you]

 That's how you get your point across. 
EDIT - 

 Ya'll dudes kill me with the selective reasoning too. Damn near 99% of this board gets on KG for not retaliating to Anthony Peeler. But Blake gets a pass for "keeping his composure". 

 

[im not you]

 That's how you get your point across. 
EDIT - 

 Ya'll dudes kill me with the selective reasoning too. Damn near 99% of this board gets on KG for not retaliating to Anthony Peeler. But Blake gets a pass for "keeping his composure". 

 

[rolaholic]

Originally Posted by eashawty

Originally Posted by P MAC ONE

The same thing used to happen to dude in college. But just like in college, he can't afford to take himself out of the game when teams foul hard.

It's up to someone else on the team to send a message back that it's not gonna happen. I don't watch every minute of every Clippers game but it seems like the team is starting to understand that more and the officials seem to be aware as well.

this...they did ##%+ like this to him all the time in college, but it wouldnt make sense for him to retaliate & get suspended when hes obviously the best player on the team. ifhe did then he ultimately be takin a loss

reminds me of this back in college

 

[rolaholic]

Originally Posted by eashawty

Originally Posted by P MAC ONE

The same thing used to happen to dude in college. But just like in college, he can't afford to take himself out of the game when teams foul hard.

It's up to someone else on the team to send a message back that it's not gonna happen. I don't watch every minute of every Clippers game but it seems like the team is starting to understand that more and the officials seem to be aware as well.

this...they did ##%+ like this to him all the time in college, but it wouldnt make sense for him to retaliate & get suspended when hes obviously the best player on the team. ifhe did then he ultimately be takin a loss

reminds me of this back in college

 

[morningstar7777]

Originally Posted by WJuN15

whats hilarious is Andre's consecutive game streak at 620 + is done after this suspension

?

He missed games last year.

 

[morningstar7777]

Originally Posted by WJuN15

whats hilarious is Andre's consecutive game streak at 620 + is done after this suspension

?

He missed games last year.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

dumbest term in all of sport. 

 

[osh kosh bosh]

dumbest term in all of sport. 

 

[doublejs07]

I'm looking around for the article, but I read a bit on ESPN a few years back when he was on Oklahoma on why he doesn't react after hard fouls....it was something along the lines of showing he stronger not only physically, but mentally over his opponent. I think it was part of his training with Frank Matrisciano.....I'll see if I can find it.

 

[doublejs07]

I'm looking around for the article, but I read a bit on ESPN a few years back when he was on Oklahoma on why he doesn't react after hard fouls....it was something along the lines of showing he stronger not only physically, but mentally over his opponent. I think it was part of his training with Frank Matrisciano.....I'll see if I can find it.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Originally Posted by DoubleJs07

I'm looking around for the article, but I read a bit on ESPN a few years back when he was on Oklahoma on why he doesn't react after hard fouls....it was something along the lines of showing he stronger not only physically, but mentally over his opponent. I think it was part of his training with Frank Matrisciano.....I'll see if I can find it.

You better find it, before Blake Griffin is deemed soft and the world ends.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Originally Posted by DoubleJs07

I'm looking around for the article, but I read a bit on ESPN a few years back when he was on Oklahoma on why he doesn't react after hard fouls....it was something along the lines of showing he stronger not only physically, but mentally over his opponent. I think it was part of his training with Frank Matrisciano.....I'll see if I can find it.

You better find it, before Blake Griffin is deemed soft and the world ends.

 

[cubinican]

Originally Posted by henz0

 

[cubinican]

Originally Posted by henz0

 

[youngtriz]

Originally Posted by denni5themenace

Originally Posted by YoungTriz

yall know damn well if this happen to wade or lebron yall would be talking mad #$*@.....

what does this even have to do with them? ol' defensive for no reason, gotta stick up for my boyfriends #$+ dude

because we are one of the most hated teams in the nba... so it would be even more of a reason to talk %%%+.... thats why i brought them up...  dudes called melo a punk for punching someone and backed up....

 

[youngtriz]

Originally Posted by denni5themenace

Originally Posted by YoungTriz

yall know damn well if this happen to wade or lebron yall would be talking mad #$*@.....

what does this even have to do with them? ol' defensive for no reason, gotta stick up for my boyfriends #$+ dude

because we are one of the most hated teams in the nba... so it would be even more of a reason to talk %%%+.... thats why i brought them up...  dudes called melo a punk for punching someone and backed up....

 

[l knicks fresh knick l]

These vids are toooooooo funny

 

[l knicks fresh knick l]

These vids are toooooooo funny

 

[doublejs07]

Originally Posted by Osh Kosh Bosh

Originally Posted by DoubleJs07

I'm looking around for the article, but I read a bit on ESPN a few years back when he was on Oklahoma on why he doesn't react after hard fouls....it was something along the lines of showing he stronger not only physically, but mentally over his opponent. I think it was part of his training with Frank Matrisciano.....I'll see if I can find it.

You better find it, before Blake Griffin is deemed soft and the world ends.

Found it...


"Puppetmaster" technique...

KANSAS CITY -- The constant in all the cheap-shot incidents directed at Oklahoma's Blake Griffin this season has been his reaction. He never really has one. After the pain subsides, his expression reverts to the blank state that Texas Tech coach Pat Knight said reminded him of the Terminator. There is no rage or retaliatory reflex that would lead to a technical foul; at most, all Griffin does is fiddle with his mouthpiece, shake off the cobwebs and walk away.

It was this part of the likely national player of the year -- his extreme unflappability -- that fascinated me most while watching him in the first and second rounds in Kansas City, more so than his baseline spin moves or the breathtaking dunks in transition. Part of it, I suspect, comes from his father, Tommy, whom I met in the stands at the Sprint Center and found to be similarly stoic and even-keeled. But I had also heard (through a mention in an SI feature by Kelli Anderson) about a San Francisco trainer named Frank Matrisciano who helped build Griffin into an even more explosive force over the summer, and introduced him to a mental-control concept called the "Puppetmaster."

Matrisciano is a hard man to find -- he has no listed number, no Web site and has never allowed his full face to be photographed for a publication -- but is renowned for training not just basketball players but also members of Army Special Ops units, federal marshalls, martial artists and boxers. He addresses people as "sir" during normal conversation. You have to know someone in his training circle to become a part of it, and Matrisciano said Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel was aware of him "through an old Duke connection." At Capel's urging, Griffin, his brother, Taylor, and fellow Sooner forward Ryan Wright went to San Francisco in the offseason, doing basketball skill work in the mornings with a group of college and pro players, and then going through Matrisciano's grueling and unconventional training -- which includes plenty of outdoor work on Bay Area beaches -- in the afternoons. I got Matrisciano's number through a friend who knew one of his basketball clients, and called him late last week.

Matrisciano said he considers the Griffin brothers and Wright to be his friends, and had watched their game against Morgan State the previous evening. The technique Griffin used while being judo-flipped by Bears henchman Ameer Ali had made Matrisciano proud. "Blake did a wonderful thing there," he said. "When you roll into the throw, and let your body go as limp as possible, you're less likely to get hurt. Because if you're stiff when you land -- like what happened between [UConn's Hasheem] Thabeet and [Pitt's DeJuan] Blair, you land a lot harder. Blake did exactly what he was supposed to do.

"What made me prouder, though," Matrisciano said, "was that he walked way. He could have ripped [Ali's] head off. But then Blake's kicked out of the game, and the next game too. So who wins? If he retaliates, he hurts himself and the opponent achieves his goal. That whole thing was meaningless to Blake. [Ali] will tell his grandkids, 'I flipped a Hall-of-Famer.' But Blake didn't react, and didn't let him win."

This, in a nutshell, is the Puppetmaster concept Griffin embraced for his sophomore season, after a freshman campaign in which he was easily ruffled by defenders and referees. "You're either a puppet on the court, or you're the puppetmaster," Matrisciano would constantly tell him. "You're either allowing someone else to control you, or you're the one in control."

When USC's Leonard Washington punched Griffin in the groin, Utah's Luka Drca tripped him, umpteen players elbowed him, Ali flipped him and Michigan's Manny Harris undercut him, Griffin stayed in control of the situation. Matrisciano said Griffin was able to do this because he and his brother have the mental discipline of "robots," allowing them not only to stay in control, but also plow through workouts that had caused umpteen NBA players to quit the training programs.






http://www.fannation.com/si_blogs/tourney/posts/59221-the-puppetmaster

 

[doublejs07]

Originally Posted by Osh Kosh Bosh

Originally Posted by DoubleJs07

I'm looking around for the article, but I read a bit on ESPN a few years back when he was on Oklahoma on why he doesn't react after hard fouls....it was something along the lines of showing he stronger not only physically, but mentally over his opponent. I think it was part of his training with Frank Matrisciano.....I'll see if I can find it.

You better find it, before Blake Griffin is deemed soft and the world ends.

Found it...


"Puppetmaster" technique...

KANSAS CITY -- The constant in all the cheap-shot incidents directed at Oklahoma's Blake Griffin this season has been his reaction. He never really has one. After the pain subsides, his expression reverts to the blank state that Texas Tech coach Pat Knight said reminded him of the Terminator. There is no rage or retaliatory reflex that would lead to a technical foul; at most, all Griffin does is fiddle with his mouthpiece, shake off the cobwebs and walk away.

It was this part of the likely national player of the year -- his extreme unflappability -- that fascinated me most while watching him in the first and second rounds in Kansas City, more so than his baseline spin moves or the breathtaking dunks in transition. Part of it, I suspect, comes from his father, Tommy, whom I met in the stands at the Sprint Center and found to be similarly stoic and even-keeled. But I had also heard (through a mention in an SI feature by Kelli Anderson) about a San Francisco trainer named Frank Matrisciano who helped build Griffin into an even more explosive force over the summer, and introduced him to a mental-control concept called the "Puppetmaster."

Matrisciano is a hard man to find -- he has no listed number, no Web site and has never allowed his full face to be photographed for a publication -- but is renowned for training not just basketball players but also members of Army Special Ops units, federal marshalls, martial artists and boxers. He addresses people as "sir" during normal conversation. You have to know someone in his training circle to become a part of it, and Matrisciano said Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel was aware of him "through an old Duke connection." At Capel's urging, Griffin, his brother, Taylor, and fellow Sooner forward Ryan Wright went to San Francisco in the offseason, doing basketball skill work in the mornings with a group of college and pro players, and then going through Matrisciano's grueling and unconventional training -- which includes plenty of outdoor work on Bay Area beaches -- in the afternoons. I got Matrisciano's number through a friend who knew one of his basketball clients, and called him late last week.

Matrisciano said he considers the Griffin brothers and Wright to be his friends, and had watched their game against Morgan State the previous evening. The technique Griffin used while being judo-flipped by Bears henchman Ameer Ali had made Matrisciano proud. "Blake did a wonderful thing there," he said. "When you roll into the throw, and let your body go as limp as possible, you're less likely to get hurt. Because if you're stiff when you land -- like what happened between [UConn's Hasheem] Thabeet and [Pitt's DeJuan] Blair, you land a lot harder. Blake did exactly what he was supposed to do.

"What made me prouder, though," Matrisciano said, "was that he walked way. He could have ripped [Ali's] head off. But then Blake's kicked out of the game, and the next game too. So who wins? If he retaliates, he hurts himself and the opponent achieves his goal. That whole thing was meaningless to Blake. [Ali] will tell his grandkids, 'I flipped a Hall-of-Famer.' But Blake didn't react, and didn't let him win."

This, in a nutshell, is the Puppetmaster concept Griffin embraced for his sophomore season, after a freshman campaign in which he was easily ruffled by defenders and referees. "You're either a puppet on the court, or you're the puppetmaster," Matrisciano would constantly tell him. "You're either allowing someone else to control you, or you're the one in control."

When USC's Leonard Washington punched Griffin in the groin, Utah's Luka Drca tripped him, umpteen players elbowed him, Ali flipped him and Michigan's Manny Harris undercut him, Griffin stayed in control of the situation. Matrisciano said Griffin was able to do this because he and his brother have the mental discipline of "robots," allowing them not only to stay in control, but also plow through workouts that had caused umpteen NBA players to quit the training programs.






http://www.fannation.com/si_blogs/tourney/posts/59221-the-puppetmaster

 

[mr marcus]

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

thats what Andre was supposed to do.

and I really dislike Basic game.

 

[mr marcus]

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

thats what Andre was supposed to do.

and I really dislike Basic game.

 

[westcoastsfinest]

Originally Posted by JapanAir21

Originally Posted by Kiddin Like Jason

I don't know, but that was hilarious. I like how there wasn't a foul call, too.

Andre Miller hasn't ran that fast in ten years.

Fixed.

I chuckled when there wasn't a whistle.

first thing i thought. c'mon refs

blake is far from soft
  

 

[westcoastsfinest]

Originally Posted by JapanAir21

Originally Posted by Kiddin Like Jason

I don't know, but that was hilarious. I like how there wasn't a foul call, too.

Andre Miller hasn't ran that fast in ten years.

Fixed.

I chuckled when there wasn't a whistle.

first thing i thought. c'mon refs

blake is far from soft