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NEW ORLEANS -- If Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton wants to get healthy, the NFLs reigning offensive MVP could not find a better tonic than the New Orleans Saints defense.Newton, who sat out the Panthers ugly 17-14 home loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday night due to repercussions from the concussion he sustained in a Week 4 loss to Atlanta, returned to practice Wednesday in a limited role ahead of the Sunday road game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome (1 p.m. ET, FOX).Although Panthers coach Ron Rivera couldnt promise Newton would start Sunday against one of the leagues weakest defenses (allowing 422.8 yards and 32.5 points a game), Newton participated in team drills and looked frisky in working through the NFLs protocol for returning from a concussion.At 1-4 and buried in the NFC South cellar, the Panthers, far removed from the team that sailed through the last regular season at 15-1, sorely need a booster shot of classic Newton against the Saints (1-3). New Orleans is coming off a wild 35-34 victory over the San Diego Chargers two weeks ago and is fully rested after a bye week.(Newton) looked good and threw the ball pretty doggone well (in practice Wednesday), said Rivera, who also gave first-team reps to backup QB Derek Anderson. He was involved with the plays we had scripted for him. Well see.Although Newton has struggled this year in comparisons to his 2015 MVP season -- he has five interceptions to go with six touchdowns -- the Panthers realize they will need him if they are to claw back into the NFC South race against the Falcons (4-1). Last season, Newton threw 35 TD passes against 10 picks.Carolinas ground game has been so anemic this year that Newton, with 147 yards on 29 carries, is the Panthers second-leading rusher, accounting for 24 percent of the teams rushing yards. He also has taken plenty of hits -- 13 sacks in four starts.(Im) just really happy that hes better, center Ryan Kalil said. To have Cam not feeling like he was last week and seeing him more like himself was really good for all of us.Saints coach Sean Payton is well aware of what Newton can do when healthy. Newton torched the beleaguered Saints defense in a 41-38 victory in the 2015 regular-season finale, passing for 331 yards and five touchdowns.In our case, were preparing for him, Payton said. We feel hes going to play. I think thats the only way to approach it, and yet we understand the strengths and weaknesses of Derek.Payton said he realizes the Panthers are a wounded team but have plenty of pride after reaching the Super Bowl last year.I dont think our teams going to take any team lightly, Payton said. Were sitting here at 1-3. I think its a silly question. We know the team were playing is a championship-level team that has lost some tough, close games. Were going to have to be at our best.Saints quarterback Drew Brees is having a stellar season at age 37, averaging 317.3 yards a game on 65.9 percent completions with 10 touchdowns and three interceptions. Brees played well in two close losses to Carolina last year, and he will not have to face cornerback Josh Norman, who signed in the offseason with the Washington Redskins.As I analyze them and from what Im looking at from a defensive perspective, I think theyre as good now as theyve been, Brees said. I know theyve had some tough losses, just like we have. We know exactly what theyre capable of, and we know the mindset they have coming in this week, needing a win just like we do.After Carolinas young corners -- rookies James Bradberry and Daryl Worley -- were embarrassed by allowing Atlantas Julio Jones 12 catches for 300 yards, Rivera said they bounced back in the close loss to Tampa Bay. But they will be right back in the fire against Brees.All you have to do is watch the tape (of Brees), and its scary, Rivera said. Drew Brees is a tremendous triggerman. He uses all his targets.Rivera believes his team will show some fight after the unexpected 1-4 start.Were a team that has been in touch situations before, Rivera said. The biggest thing we have to do is stay focused on what the task at hand is.Carolina linebacker Luke Kuechly added, You dont expect to start out this way, but its a situation we are in now, and its all about how youre going to respond from it. Adidas NMD Sverige . LOUIS -- St. Adidas NMD R2 Herr . -- Damian Lillard and LaMarcus Alrdridge were again the go-to duo for the Trail Blazers against the Kings. http://www.nmdsverige.com/nmd-r1-adidas-skor.html . The return match will take place next Wednesday. Udinese leads Fiorentina 2-1 in the other semifinal. 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Even so, the reaction reveals more about his teams attitude to these conditions than it does about Asian wickets.Has any Test match batting line-up looked as inept as Australias in Sri Lanka? Despite well-meaning programmes, interventions, manifestos, reports and investigations into the problem of Australia in the subcontinent, these measures, by definition of their performances, have not worked, and dont look like working. Australia are actually getting worse over there.If were discussing solutions (which, it seems, we are), then Australias cultural, grass-roots attitudes to spin bowling may be worth exploring. At all levels of serious amateur cricket in Australia - from school cricket through to first grade - spinners barely bowl. A crass generalisation, possibly, but broadly true.At grade level, spin bowling is an art to be tolerated rather than curated. The administrative boffins already understand that this approach hampers efforts to find the next great batch of representative spinners, but Pallekele and Galle have made clear an even bigger problem: this approach does a huge disservice to our batsmen too.As ever in Australia, when we have a cricketing problem to solve we skew to over-simplification. In this case, much of the hand-wringing over the latest capitulation has merely thrown up tired motherhood statements about batting to spinners. Just use your feet, rotate the strike, unsettle them by going over the top.Solutions like these betray an ignorance ultimately rooted in arrogance, and they insult Test cricketers. The batsmen will be aware that foot movement and run-scoring are ends to aspire to. The problem is that they fundamentally cannot read the cricket ball. Nobody holds or wields a bat in Australia better than these guys, yet in Sri Lanka their ineptitude is so staggeringly total that it demands introspection deeper than just rotate the strike, mate. Only the most one-eyed supporters would dare envisage a challenge to India next year, let alone a victory in Colombo.With such an obvious and systemic problem, we may as well throw in another one: we clearly have no idea. Efforts to stem the embarrassment are rightly underway. Increased Asian exposure for junior teams and the alteration of home wickets have either been implemented or are on the table. They are good ideas. It has also been suggested that Australia employ a horses-for-courses selection policy for their batsmen. Its an idea that grates against the very fibre of Australias conservative spirit, but an air of experimentation would at least demonstrate some humility that recognises we may have been wrong about this all along.ddddddddddddBut the above are short- to mid-term solutions that will surely only offer marginal gains at best. Australian cricket cannot select its way out of this problem. Nor can it seriously believe that a biennial Asian bridging-course for their best batsmen will sufficiently educate them for the hardest cricket they are likely to encounter - a Test match in an Indian, Sri Lankan or Pakistani dustbowl. Because thats what were going to get for the next ten years, at least.But how do you mobilise a whole nation in the fight against spin? Because throughout, from grade cricket through to national level, the truth is that we really dont rate spinners. This wholesale attitude courses like boosted blood through the veins of the Australian cricketing body, where the advice to simply use your feet, get to them on the full and hit them out of the attack is consistent from club to club.Its similar for those bowling or captaining spin, where the almost fundamentalist commitment to building pressure by dotting them up produces an unceasing queue of slow-to-medium-pace bowlers who can tie up an end and keep things tight.Grade captains nationwide will opt for the grizzled late-20s medium-pacer over the young, raw spinner in almost every match situation when the game is on the line. And why wouldnt they? Try telling a third grade captain to bowl his 17-year-old spinner when the opposition are 187 for 2 in 35-degree heat out west. Why dont I just give them the six points now? would be a common, and reasonable, response. Cunning grade captains dont make tactical decisions in the national interest; they make decisions to beat the opposition - whom they usually hate.A quota of spin bowling per innings has been suggested before, and it really does have merit. Of course, in the deeply dog-eat-dog world of grade cricket, spinners selected by necessity would be further ostracised, but it would be the same for both sides. Having spinners bowl a percentage of overs would not only increase the chances of Australia developing better spinners, it would ensure our batsmen are raised on a balanced diet of bowling from an early age. We could call it the Pallekele Rule.It may be that the changes needed to win in the subcontinent will hamper the efforts to win at home, and we should simply accept our weakness. Perhaps were Roger Federer and Asia is our clay; maybe you just cant win everywhere. Death, taxes and struggling in India.Whatever the case, if Australia do not take care to cultivate quality spin bowling, their batsmen will continue to fail against quality spin bowling. Or are they just bad decks? Well probably find out in ten years or so. ' ' '