Players meet, stress team play
"At some point, you get tired of being smacked in the mouth and losing. How you react is part of being a team."
After a 3-hour-10-minute practice, Adrian Griffin called for a players-only meeting that lasted close to an hour Monday afternoon at the Berto Center.
Griffin hasn't played a second this season, but that didn't stop him from showing his veteran ways.
'We talked about being a team,' center Ben Wallace said. 'Instead of going out there and playing like a group of individuals, we need to play as a team.'
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