October 5th, 2009

Preseason Starts – for Me & My Squad (CDR)

Yes yes! I really don’t have a reaction to our preseason opener. We lost the game, so that’s what I’m focusing on right now. I play for wins and respect. Stats don't matter. What I did personally doesn’t matter to me.

Courtney was out with foot inflammation so he wasn't able to play. I have something to prove to myself this year, and I have something to prove to everybody else, so whoever’s in the lineup doesn’t matter. It was just a preseason game, but I think I took steps toward that.

At the end of the day, I’m going to go out and play the way I’m going to play. And I really don’t care what anybody thinks but myself. I do think overall, as a team, we have to get better ... but so does every team in the league in early October.

Tweeting & TV Therapy
The new league Twitter policy is fine. I wouldn’t have done that anyway. I barely look at my phone on a game day – so twittering 45 minutes before a game is really unheard of. My main focus on a game day is the actual game! NOT Twitter. At the end of the day, the NBA signs the checks, so it’s their call. Twitter isn't more important than my career.

I saw T-Will retweeted my line about the difference between me and everybody else being that I wake up exicted for practice. Helluva comment, right? But that’s what it is – if you’re not passionate about this game or what you do for a living, you won’t succeed. The way I look at it is, I wake up and I say, “Thank God I have another day I can play basketball, it’s another day I can do the thing that I do best."

I’ve been making sure to replenish my energy, too. Last year, I wasn’t really resting like that. It’s still hard for me to “rest,” but I take a lot of 45-minute naps  now. At night, I still don’t go to bed ’til like 3 a.m. Me and my brother Jason (@jayrob76), we suffer from insomnia.

It’s just hard for me to go to sleep, because at night those shows start coming on – my shows. Family Guy comes on at 2 and 2:30am, then you turn Good Times on. It’s just like, “Damn! I’m still up.”

And Tool Academy? That show is hilarious. Those guys on there are amazing to me. They went on TV, thinking they were going on a reality show to be the "biggest partyer-whatever...but they were just with other girls, and they had girlfriends at home. They were doing it on TV, so eventually it was going to come on air. However their girlfriends sent them to Tool Academy. Hahahaha. Idiots. How are you going to cheat on TV!!!??? And then act embarrassed and remorseful! Then top it off with the crying! Hahahahahah. Hiiilarious! It's a comedy to me.

The Name Game
So y’all know: the media started calling me “CD-R,” and Coach Barbee & Dick Vitale gave me “Buckets” at Memphis, but back in Detroit, I’m “Fresh.” First it was more like “Dougey Fresh.” Then, as I started growing up, it was more like I was the cleanest, freshest, smooth, debonair guy growing up in the neighborhood, so they just cut the “Dougey” off and started calling me “Fresh.” And it really fits.

Hahahahahaahahahahaaaa! Seriously though, I prefer Chris or Fresh. CD-R is for those media people.

I’m ready for this cold weather. I’m from Detroit, so I like coats, I like hoodies, I like sweaters. And I like wearing jeans – a lot of guys base their whole outfit around wearing shoes; I base mine off jeans. The jeans, then the shoes and then the top. And I might have an overcoat. I just bought some Gucci rubber duckies the other day, and somebody asked me, “Rubber duckies?! You got some rain boots? Gucci rain boots??” And I was like, “Hold hold hold, it might rain one day. I need to be prepared.”

If I’m basing an outfit off ’em, I don’t like a lot of stuff on the jeans. A lot of guys have a lot of stuff on the jeans, like real colorful pockets, and I’m not on that. I’m not on that at all *Cough* Trent *Cough* B-Ham wears Levis, and I 'm really not on that, either. You might catch me in some Tavernitis, Meks, Laguna Beach, Monarchy. My new favorite jeans are PRPS. There’s no telling what I might be in ... 

Grow(l)ing Pains
Even though the Lions didn’t win Sunday, we’re looking up. We’re a young team and we're getting better. Us growing as a unit will be vital in our development. In two years, we’re going to have the second-best receiver in the NFL, next to Andre Johnson from the Texans. Calvin Johnson will be No. 2! Resssssspectttt.