“It’s been a lot of shooting. It’s been a lot of …

Can you catch me up on what Stephon Castle’s off-season work has entailed with you so far? Simplis: “It’s been a lot of shooting. It’s been a lot of adjustments for us with them going so deep into the playoffs. I wouldn’t say we lost two months. But the year before, we were two months in by the time I saw him this offseason. So a lot of it was moving slow and not going full throttle. He had a long season. Then after the season, he took two to three weeks off. So we didn’t want to jump back in there and take a chance of having any injury. So it’s been a slow buildup in a short period. Now we’re starting to ramp it up a little bit as we get guys ready to go back to their destination. It’s been a lot of shooting focus, pace focus, shot-line pocket focus, off-the-dribble. Then it’s focusing from the gathers to the energy into the dribble and into the gather and the shot-line focus. With that, we’re starting to move a little bit. We’re starting to do it at game speed in the last week.”

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Can you catch me up on what Stephon Castle’s off-season work has entailed with you so far? Simplis: “It’s been a lot of shooting. It’s been a lot of adjustments for us with them going so deep into the playoffs. I wouldn’t say we lost two months. But the year before, we were two months in by the time I saw him this offseason. So a lot of it was moving slow and not going full throttle. He had a long season. Then after the season, he took two to three weeks off. So we didn’t want to jump back in there and take a chance of having any injury. So it’s been a slow buildup in a short period. Now we’re starting to ramp it up a little bit as we get guys ready to go back to their destination. It’s been a lot of shooting focus, pace focus, shot-line pocket focus, off-the-dribble. Then it’s focusing from the gathers to the energy into the dribble and into the gather and the shot-line focus. With that, we’re starting to move a little bit. We’re starting to do it at game speed in the last week.”

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