When the league resumes its season behind closed doors at a quarantine site in Orlando, coaches will now wonder how they deal with the uncomfortable silence.
"We did load up on medical personnel just because of the history of players coming back after lockout-type situations and the high risk of injury," Vogel said."With the COVID protocols and potentially having guys out, we did decide to bring 17 players so that we make sure that we have enough practice bodies. What most teams are going through, it leaves you a little bit short-handed on the coaching front.
No wonder Vogel called the process"fairly miserable with trying to place a value on everybody’s contributions." Vogel conceded the Lakers are motivated to advance in the playoffs both to win an NBA championship and add additional employees. By then, teams will still place a premium on medical help and available players. But more coaching can always maximize a team’s ability to make a pivotal adjustment during a playoff series.
"We’re trying to plan our first few days of practice in the bubble," Orlando Magic coach Steve Clifford said."But frankly, I watch our guys today and I change my mind every day on how much we can do." "The conditioning aspect is going to be a great concern," Vogel said."Being able to react on defense is something no one has done league-wide for four months. There’s muscles involved. There’s instincts involved. All those types of things have been dormant, so to speak. They’ve just gotta be, hopefully, brought back in a relatively quick fashion and at the right pace. We’re very concerned about going too fast once we get going.
"Half of my career I’ve coached without people in the stands," Gentry recalled Nurse saying."I’ve been in the G-League and the CBA." Good luck. Participating players will have to spread out in the first and second row of the bench to follow social distancing rules. Though all active players are exempt from wearing a mask, any inactive players and coaches on the second row are required to wear one. Players and coaches on the first row do not have to wear a mask.
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