On engagement of team on bench and from administrative standpoint:
“We got on our bench during one of the timeouts. We felt like when they made their run to get back in it, we were dead as a bench. It is different but still they should be very vocal. They’ve got be in it doing what they need to do. Like I said it’s the first time that we’ve been together on the same bench around the court. I mean it’s different it really is. We’re trying to move people around during timeouts so guys are not sitting beside each other. Guys were conscientious, I’m not obviously, but people are working it trying to tell this guy sit here, this guy there so it’s different, it really is it. The timeouts were ok because that’s kind of how we normally would do it but the bench itself it is just different. Like I said, that’s the first time we’ve done it. We had scrimmages but we’ve had both ends you know we work both ends and separated them, but I mean think about it I’m looking around trying to yell at guys to get in the game and I look up and Uros (Plavsic) is sitting on the baseline you know and I’m like you better get there and take you know take your sweats off when you get there. Jayden was trying to take his sweats off but he’s going to run over there. So those are some things we have to talk about. We’re going to make sure they get to the table first, then worry about. The building is a little bit different. It’s probably not as warm. It doesn’t get as hot as it normally would because more people in there you know but the benches yeah, I’m going to have to get used to that too because I was looking around and trying to see guys and I wasn’t sure where they were.”
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