On if the players were able to do things individually during the shutdown:
“We did a lot of shooting. We were trying to get 500 shots made a day with them. Not just 3-point shots either. Game shots, with game speed and game spots. It was hard obviously, because they’re on the court by themselves with a gun, shooting. They were allowed to have a manager that had been tested and ready to go. So, they were mostly getting shots up. One thing they did do, was continued to lift weights via Zoom. And Garrett Medenwald worked hard on that from his end. We were going to follow the protocol in the exact way it was supposed to be done and our guys did that. And, they were tired, but it’s just not the same as five-on-five, going up and down the floor, getting your timing down where there’s 10 bodies moving with cutting and banging around. Now, I’m going to tell you, there isn’t anything more they could have done on their own. They pushed it as far as they could push it trying to get better with their individual skills. Not just shooting, they worked on their weaknesses.
“As you would expect the older guys—one of my first days back, Josiah-(Jordan James) was in the weight room by himself doing a yoga workout on his own. The older guys understand their bodies and know what they need to do. That’s where the younger guys are still learning. Again, we’ve got a great and very unselfish group of guys. We have a group of guys that is unselfish almost to a fault at times, but they pull for each other. If it were up to them they would want everyone to play as much as possible, but tomorrow will be the first time we’ve been on the same bench together and we’ll see how it goes.”
On if it was always just one player in the gym with a manager at a time:
“No, we could have three guys in there at one time. We could have one on each end and one in the middle. In most situations it was two guys in the gym, but it could be three. They were organized with their times. They were allowed to get a couple of hours a day in there where we had to rotate. Again, some guys even with as much as we asked them to do some of them wanted to come back and do more. We’ve got some guys that are real gym rats. But, most of the time it was two guys. They started sometimes at six in the morning and it would go until about 7:30 to 8 at night.”