Rhythm of practice faster under Brown

Based on the first two sessions, Larry Brown is practicing triage at this training camp, spending most of his time with the core eight players he needs to be up-to-speed in his system for the season-opener at the end of the month.

Brown had 16 players Tuesday (Shannon Brown missed the start of camp for the birth of his first child). During teaching sessions, he broke them into two sets of eight.

The group he primarily worked with included Raymond Felton, Matt Carroll, Jason Richardson, Gerald Wallace, Adam Morrison, Sean May, Emeka Okafor and Nazr Mohammed.

Jared Dudley and rookie point guard D.J. Augustin were with the other group of eight, working primarily with assistant coaches.

Seemingly that means Morrison gets the initial nod over Dudley as the backup to small forward Gerald Wallace. I don't place too much emphasis on Augustin not being with the core unit; he's a virtual lock to back up Felton as the point guard.

The rhythm of practices is decidedly quicker than under Sam Vincent. During a full-court drill, all ten players stopped running when the ball went through the basket, so Brown got animated, yelling he wants the ball in-bounded immediately to replicate game-speed in practice.

Also, everything seemingly involves stakes. He broke the group into three teams to work on a half-court drill, and kept a running total on who scored and who got stops.

So when one of the three groups "won" that drill, the other two groups hit the floor for push-ups.