i am so feeling the love

i know i am supposed to talk football now with the bruins home season opener against byu just around the corner.

but i can't help it. sports illustrated did a nice story on coach ben howland yesterday, and today, something on kevin love. i love this quote:

One thing Love does not need counseling on is his outlet-passing skills; he has long been known as a virtuoso of the long-bomb outlet on the AAU circuit. Bruins point guard Darren Collison got to experience it first-hand when he and Love played pick-up together for the first time, earlier this month at the Adidas Nations Basketball Experience in New Orleans. "We were setting up a little thing at the free throw line," said Love, "and right when I'd take the ball out of the net, he'd take off on a full sprint, and when he caught it at the other end, he wouldn't even need to take a dribble -- he'd just lay it up."

"People were asking us afterwards how many times we'd played, saying, 'You look like you've been playing together for years,'" said Love. "But that was the first time we'd played together, so it was good hearing it. Hopefully we'll take that into the season and make a run for a national championship."

and here's a video of love's skills, among them, his famous outlet passes (from a YEAR ago!!!). he can only get better.



i am so excited for this upcoming season already!

from what coach howland says, it appears that mata will play the 5 and love will play the 4. interesting. i do like mata's hustle and defense, but dude just doesn't have strong hands! but, the coach knows what he's doing.