Jazz Notes: I Can't Understand You

[RonnieBrewer (Ronnie Brewer)]

I Can't Understand You
Friday, October 27, 2006

So you want to know what life is like in the Jazz locker room? Jarron Collins
has a suggestion for you: Rent the movie "Babel," the Brad Pitt/Cate Blanchett
thriller.

I was talking to Andrei Kirilenko before Tuesday's game -- actually, it was
a little disconcerting because he was lying on the floor doing situps at the
time -- and he was having trouble expressing what he meant. He was comparing
the role of a team captain in Europe with his role as a team captain on the
Jazz, but he couldn't find the words to express himself.

But Collins, sitting nearby, could. He explained what Kirilenko was trying
to say, while Kirilenko listened and said, yes, yes, that's it. So I told
Collins I was impressed with his ability to interpret, sort of, for his
teammates.

That's when Collins explained that the Jazz's locker room reminded him of
"Babel." Without the gunfire, he means.

With a Croat (Gordan Giricek), Turk (Mehmet Okur) and a Russian (Kirilenko)
on the roster, not to mention former teammates like Raul Lopez, Sasha Pavlovic
and Carlos Arroyo, "there's a lot of miscommunication sometimes, a lot of
things that aren't quite understood. Because even though everyone speaks
English well, there are a lot of subtleties that get missed."

Interesting point. It's also the main plot device in the movie, which has
nothing to do with basketball. But maybe it's something worth watching while
waiting for the season to start next week.

-- Phil Miller at the Delta Center
1:08 AM |

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