Watching this **** really has me missing basketball. Jalen looks so smooth. I can't wait for the season to start.
Saturday’s practice before breaking camp will be entirely spent scrimmaging in an effort to apply the lessons from drills and video work in some competition, a welcome change before heading back to Houston and the start of the preseason schedule on Tuesday against the Washington Wizards. “It’s been a good four days,” Rockets coach Stephen Silas said. “We’ve been working on a ton. We’ve been doing a lot of technique stuff, a lot of organizational stuff. Now, it’s time for us (on Saturday) to just play. “We’ve been doing drills. They’ve been great during the drills. They’ve been attentive. They’ve been going hard and trying and all that stuff. At this point, Saturday, our fifth day of training camp, we’re going to just play and hopefully get three quarters in where they can kind of use the things that we’ve been talking about. Then, we can use some film to support that and teach a little bit more on the back end of playing.” Silas said, “it has been a really, really good camp.” It has not included two-a-days, a trend in the NBA with information that it is best physically to limit the load on players in the initial practices. “When I first came into the league, we did like a week of two-a-days,” Silas said. “But the performance team along with experts … a lot of teams, I would say most teams, are going away from two-a-days just because of the load on the players and kind of introducing them to playing again and doing five-on-five and banging, it doesn’t bode well for them to do two-a-days for their bodies. “So, we’re not doing them. We have optional shooting in the evening that some guys participate in. But as far as the group stuff, it is just one practice.” Spoiler NBA for sure gotten soft.
Silas makes it seem like they've just been doing drills and practices the first 4 days and tomorrow they "put it all together". I'm not sure, but I'm sure we'll get highlights soon enough. Here's his quote :
