According to the brochure [pdf] for the Nate Robinson Skillz & Drillz Basketball Camp, attendees will work on "improving shooting, rebounding, ball handling, defense, and team building skills."
You can't help but notice that "passing" is missing, but, after all, this is a Nate Robinson basketball camp. What did you expect?
Those purists who have to watch that Gene Hackman "four passes before we shoot" Hoosiers speech just to calm themselves down after watching Robinson play are going to think this is the worst development since the jump shot. And I don't think grammarians will be happy either.
The Journal News sent reporter Jake Thomases to scope out the three-day camp, which Robinson held at the Boys and Girls Club of Westchester County (a northern suburb of NYC).
As Robinson, looking like a big kid himself in an oversized cap and dangling gym shorts, sat in a chair on the baseline watching one of the younger groups do a layup line, his friends pitted the older kids against each other in a one-on-one exercise.Robinson tells the reporter he went to basketball camps every summer in Seattle--could that have been the staple of every 80s and 90s Seattle childhood, the Seafirst Jammin' Hoops Camp? Methink so.
"They're not going to be soft on them and let them get away with things," Robinson said of the counselors. "They're going to be hard on them. At the same time, they're going to let them have fun. We're teaching them discipline, we're teaching them how to respect people, and we're teaching them how to have fun."
I kid about Robinson's non-passing ways--I love the guy and will defend his game to the last, as I did in a piece for the P-I last December.
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