HOUSTON --- Before the start of USA Basketball training camp, Jeff Van Gundy is surrounded at the kitchen table with a small stack of play sheets and binders. He's pushing play, rewind and play again on his laptop. He is marveling over the genius of Esteban Batista of Uruguay. It gives him a pit in his stomach again, and God he missed it desperately.
"Watch him now, watch Batista," Van Gundy says. "No one posts up anymore, but he still does. Watch this, every time: He's going to always drive, spin and step through. I don't care which way he starts.