Some rookie quotes from Hoopsworld

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“I feel pretty good with this Hornets team,” said Gordon, who was ready to jilt the Hornets to join the Phoenix Suns this summer before New Orleans matched the Suns’ max contract offer. “It’s a young and upcoming team, definitely got a lot of new players.”

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“It’s been great,” Davis told HOOPSWORLD of his first NBA preseason and training camp. “Just got to keep working hard. It’s been tough on us, tough on me especially because of guys coming after me. I got to learn how to play through that and move onto the next game.”

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“[Davis] handles the situations with wisdom that’s beyond his years,” Williams said. “He listens, he’s humble and yet he still has an edge. I saw him get on a few guys a couple games ago, and it kind of took me back.”

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“If guys are messing up, I’m going to say something to them because I expect the same back,” Davis said. “If I mess up and am out of position, I want them to tell me because it’s going to make the team better. We can’t just go out there and let somebody mess up, we all got to be accountable, that’s what’s going to make us better.”

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The Hornets head coach also believes that Rivers’ work ethic is second-to-none in terms of other young players he’s had a chance to work with.

“That’s the league now,” Williams said. “If you coach a guy and you tell him what he’s supposed to do and how he’s supposed to do it, they call it pushing. I’m just coaching. I don’t try to differentiate or put it into any other term. I just coach. [Rivers] works harder than most young guys I’ve ever been around. He’s serious about his craft. He’s learning, and I’ve seen a lot of growth from day one. He’s tougher than I thought. We just coach. I’m just a simple country boy, man, we just coach.”

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