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"I just think it's im****tant to be yourself," said Bogut, who is playing
for
Milwaukee in Minnesota's summer league at Target Center. "If I don't look
good by the things I say, that's something I'm going to live with. I'm
still
going to say things people aren't going to like, just like everybody."
On playing in Milwaukee: "I know there's a lot of beer and cheese there,
and
that suits me," Bogut told the Associated Press the day before the draft
last month.
On Longley, who won three champion****ps with Chicago in the 1990s on teams
carried by Michael Jordan: "I've had a better collegiate career than
anyone
else from Australia that came over here. I'm not as slow as Luc Longley.
I'm
more athletic. I can shoot better. I'm more competitive. So I think it's
not
even fair to bring that name up," Bogut told the AP.
On the NBA lifestyle of traveling entourages: "I'll probably have some
people come in that I haven't seen for 20 years, and I'm going to tell
them
straight out, I don't want nothing to do with you. I'm not a posse guy.
I'm
not going to have a bunch of guys rolling around with me, playing
PlayStation and paying them money. I don't see the point in that."
Bogut stands by his comments, though he said the reference to Longley was
taken out of context.
"I basically said there's no comparison," Bogut clarified this weekend
after
one of his summer league games. "We're two different players. I'm more of
a
four-five. He's a pure five. That got turned into, 'Andrew Bogut (dumps)
all
over Luc Longley.' That's just how it is. Australian media is some of the
worst media in the world, I think."
Bogut said this weekend that he was tired of talking and that he was
excited
about playing. In his debut Friday, he had seven points and four rebounds
in
28 minutes as the Bucks lost 102-69 to Minnesota. He said he thought he
played "pretty bad."
He had trouble adjusting to the NBA style of play, the grabbing and
holding,
the defensive three-second rule and the officiating.
The next two days, his statistics improved dramatically, though his team
is
0-3. He finished with 21 points and 13 rebounds Saturday as his team fell
81-69 to Houston. He followed that with 16 points and 11 rebounds Sunday
in
a 91-74 loss to Toronto.
"I think in Milwaukee they respect hard work," he said. "I think if you
show
you work hard, you go to the boards hard, I think they're going to respect
you."
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