Listen. There are three words sports fans never want to hear associated with their favorite team.
“Players only meeting.”
That can never be a good thing. It’s like getting that “we need to talk” text from your significant other. There’s only pain and suffering awaiting on the other side. Put that talk off as long as possible.
The dreaded players only meeting means that something somewhere along the lines went wrong. And players are trying to identify whatever that something is and fix it.
Usually, these things happen in the swing of the season after a tough losing streak or the chemistry seems off.
But it’s only the start of training camp. And my Washington Wizards have already had their first.
The Wizards seem to have a bunch of lower-key guys on this roster, I’ve been wondering who’s going to turn out to be the talkers.
Spencer Dinwiddie’s already called a speech Brad Beal made as “MLK-like,” now Montrezl Harrell called a players only meeting after practice today.
— Ava Wallace (@avarwallace) October 1, 2021
Let me tell y’all how excited I am for this season, man. Especially after Bradley Beal’s media day? Man. This is going to be, uh, interesting.
Now, look. This isn’t a bad thing. And these meetings actually happen far more often than we think. We just don’t hear about them all the time because, really, we’re not supposed to.
But this one was, apparently, to help set the chemistry for the team.
Caldwell-Pope said the Wizards had a players only meeting today to help establish chemistry with so many new players coming together. He said Montrezl Harrell called it right after practice.
— Chase Hughes (@ChaseHughesNBCS) October 1, 2021
That’s fine. But, of course, fans still had jokes. And they were pretty good jokes, too.