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Mon, Jul 19th 2010, 14:53

Q and A with B Roy

Portland Trail Blazer all-star guard Brandon Roy talks about, well, lots of stuff

When did you get in to Las Vegas?

Roy: “I got in yesterday morning. I was supposed to come for the game Thursday but I missed my flight. 205 had a bad accident or whatever. I was just sitting in traffic. I was like ‘I’m not going to make it.’”

How is everything going? Word is you’ve been working out at the PF quite a bit.

Roy: “Yeah, things have been going good. For me I think this summer is really important, not just for my game on the court but paying attention to the minor details of my body. I actually had a chance to hire a personal trainer. The Blazers helped me out with that. Todd Forrcet has been great. We work together every day. He calls me ‘What time do you want to go tomorrow?’ and he’s real flexible with the schedule. It’s really been good, really been important for me because I want to get better.”

What kind of stuff are you working on with him?

Roy: “We spend about 45 minutes in the weight room. We do a number of things like bouncing, one leg lunges, swats, but body weight stuff. He shows me knew stuff. I kind of feel like it’s the first time I’ve ever stepped in the weight room. I’m like ‘Are you just trying to do stuff to make this hard on me?’ We laugh, we joke around but I think it’s been great for my body. I’ve actually tried to not neccessarily lose weight, but really lean out. I think so far that’s been working out for me.”

How is your knee feeling?

Roy: “Great. People still don’t beleive me but when I came back from Phoenix it felt great. I didn’t have the strength to run and explode, but I have all that back now. I’m running, jumping, dunking again. I’m excited about that, but again, this is something that I’m going to pay attention to for the rest of my career. Always in the weight room. That doesn’t mean I’m going to throw around a lot of weight, just concentrating on strengthening my quad, strenghtening my calfs and make sure my hips are loose. It’s a number of things he’s introduced me to.”

Are you running game wise? Scrimmaging?

Roy: “I played a couple pick up games up in Seattle. I’ll go back up there. I’m trying to stay away from that until about August. Now I’m really focusing on some induvidual things I do out there on teh court. Trying to run, learn to play without the ball a little bit more. Of course continuing to get better at my strenghtght, which is playing with the basketball.”

What do you think of the signing of Wesley Matthews?

Roy: “I think he’s going to help our team. I was a little concerned with losing Martell and not bringing Travis back. I was like ‘We’re getting thin on that wing.’ Getting Wes — he wants to be called Wesley — getting Wesley was huge. That was somebody I was looking forward to playing against for the rest of my career and now he’s my teammate. I’m excited about it. He’s kind of like in that mold of Nicolas; they do whatever it takes to help the team win. Defend, he can score, knock down the shot. There’s a number of things I’m going to talk to coach about in putting me in different postions so that way we can go bigger and put maybe Nicolas and Welsey out there together. It should be fun.”

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