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Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur has said the team playing an outdated style of ODI cricket has endangered their chances of direct qualification to the 2019 World Cup. The top seven countries and the host are automatically chosen to feature in the showpiece event every four years, but Pakistan are ranked No. 9 and the cut-off date is a year away. Arthur has advised the players and the PCB that to move up the ladder they need to play high risk, high octane cricket and added he wont shy away from dropping big names who do not deliver.With the brand of cricket they are playing, definitely, Arthur said when asked if Pakistan were lagging behind in 50-over cricket. We cant play that brand of cricket anymore. We have got to be brave. You have got to take the game on.There are only 14 ODIs scheduled before the September 30, 2017 deadline. If Pakistan do not improve their ranking, they would have to compete in a qualifying tournament in April 2018. Ten teams would go in. Only two teams would go through.I have to be realistic, Arthur told ESPNcricinfo in a wide-ranging interview in Manchester. We havent got the time, but we have started the journey now. We will have to start again. I have got a really good feel for personnel and the areas we need to improve on. I have looked at people we can work with, people we can bring in and I am comfortable we will be okay. We have got the way to go and it is a journey.If we keep picking the same [players] we are going to get the same [results]. And we will be sitting at No. 9 in the world. We have nothing to lose. We just have to invest in some players. I know for a fact that from the first ODI to the fifth [in England] we changed the whole brand and style of cricket. Although Pakistan lost that series 1-4, they rounded off the tour with a couple of morale-boosting wins, including a nine-wicket rout in the only T20 in Manchester.Arthur admitted his players have a history of being insecure about their places, which in turn impacted their performance on the field. He wanted that to change immediately and drastically. I want us to play an attacking brand of cricket, a brand that is good to watch, a brand that inspires the players to play and gives you so much more gratification from your supporters. It must be a brand that challenges, it must be a brand that stimulates, but it must be a brand that is encapsulated by fun.Arthur was introduced to the cricket culture in the country during his stint as coach of the Karachi Kings at the Pakistan Super League in 2015. Three months after the season ended, he was named head coach of the national side. Among the first things he did in that capacity was to tell the players he would not tolerate any reluctance in meeting the proper fitness standards.We have got a responsibility to the people of Pakistan and I have got the massive responsibility to the PCB to get it right, Arthur said. And I certainly wont be compromising on any of that. And the players know that: I have spoken to them directly. You arrive like that again [unfit], you wont play.He pointed to the examples set by Misbah-ul-Haq, 42, and Younis Khan, 38, the oldest members of the Test squad and the fittest players in Pakistan cricket, to make the squad understand what it took to excel in the international arena.There is no coincidence that thats why they are the best performers over the last year, Arthur said. They drive themselves. They take responsibility for their fitness. Shoaib Malik, in the one-day squad, in his mid-30s, fantastic, fitness-wise. He is lean, he is mean. I want the young guys to do that. That is true professionalism. I dont think that has been driven in the youngsters properly.In England, Arthur cut a particularly frustrated figure at the press conference while answering a question about Mohammad Irfan, who was flown in as a replacement player and injured himself after bowling only five overs in the Headingley ODI.Mohammad Irfan comes out here and he is clearly not fit enough to play one-day cricket. If there were individual-player plans and definite markers on where he should have been, we would have known. We didnt know.Arthur also made sure to have a one-on-one chat with the 34-year-old fast bowler to make sure there were no misunderstandings. I had him in my room after the Cardiff ODI. I told him, I cant select you for the next game [because] I am not sure you can get through ten overs. I cant select you for the T20 because I am not sure you can get through even four overs. You started cramping in your fourth over the other night, so how can we take the risk and play you? But now Mohammad Irfan has gone back to Pakistan with a training programme that is custom-made for him, which gives him the best possible opportunity to come back and play for Pakistan.There is nothing personal, but enough is enough. We have to set some real standards to make people understand that we are pretty serious about players arriving unfit. Every player who arrived on this ODI and T20 tour has been below standard, which is not a good place to be.Read part 1 of Mickey Arthurs interview here Dikembe Mutombo Jersey . Paul Pierce couldnt believe he missed at the end. Young scored a season-high 26 points to spark a huge effort from the leagues most productive bench, and Los Angeles beat the Brooklyn Nets 99-94 on Wednesday night after blowing a 27-point lead. Tyler Lydon Nuggets Jersey . PAUL, Minn. http://www.authenticnuggetsproshop.com/Malik-Beasley-Jersey/ . 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I think he realized, Why am I doing this?I would have absolutely been interested in bringing him here. You always find a place for a guy like that, whose voice in the locker room is so strong, so clear, so impactful.Hes such a great teacher in practice. He should start a course in leadership. The NBA should designate who the best player is on each team and then they could bring Kevin in and he could teach them how to be the best player and the best leader. Better yet, they could bring him and Tim [Duncan] in and they could teach it together and show people how it can be done in two completely opposite ways.Garnett was encouraged by friend, confidant and former coach Flip Saunders to sign a two-year, $16 million contract with the Timberwolves in 2015. Saunders envisioned KG as a mentor for the young team he was building, but also planned to include Garnett as a part-owner in a group that Saunders was assembling to buy the team.Saunders died of Hodgkin lymphoma in October 2015, at the age of 60. Minnesota hired Sam Mitchell, another close Garnett ally, as the interim coach to replace Saunders.KG, hobbled by knee woes, averaged just 14.2 minutes and 3.2 points per game last season, but became a trusted mentor to Karl-Anthony Towns, the young big man who is the centerpiece of the Timberwolves rebuilding effort.You know how much Im gonna miss playing with you and just simply having you around, Towns wrote on Instagram . Congrats on having one of the greatest careers the game has ever seen. We talked. I know what I must do. Ill take it from here.Moments after the 22015-16 season ended, the Timberwolves fired Mitchell and general manager Milt Newton.dddddddddddd Garnett, according to league sources, was visibly upset when told Mitchell would not be retained. His strained relationship with current owner Glen Taylor further deteriorated after Mitchells ouster.Taylor acknowledged this week that he hadnt spoken with Garnett for months. Rivers said Garnetts departure from Minnesota was not what he had envisioned, and his ownership opportunity has all but vanished.It wasnt a great ending, Rivers said. Im not going to say too much about it, but once Flip passed away it threw a wrench into everything.Rivers said that Garnett feels really great and was working out as recently as a couple of weeks ago. His knee issues, Rivers believes, could be handled with the proper regimen of rest and treatment.The sad thing is he could play another year if he wanted to, Rivers said. Maybe thats why hes retired but not retired. He loves the young guys on that Minnesota team. Theyre great listeners and he loved working with them. Its too bad its ending like this for him.Garnett will stay in the game in some capacity, Rivers confirmed, and said hes already thinking up ways to bring him into the Clippers fold. Garnett has a home in Malibu, California.?Im going to offer him something, Rivers said. I dont want to say too much right now. I just know hed be a great asset to any team.Garnett, who teamed with Rivers, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen to help the Boston Celtics win the 2008 NBA championship, finishes his career in the top 20 in all-time scoring (17th, 26,071 points), rebounding (ninth, 14,662) and blocked shots (17th, 2,037).Yet the numbers, Rivers said, dont begin to explain his value.Most incredible leader Ive ever seen, Rivers said. He loves the game and played it with a passion you just dont see very often.But hes finally had enough. We all get there someday. ' ' '