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Training camp is teaching McCain the base principles behind plays he only learned the endings of last season.
โI learned a lot of the offense of like the endings of plays or new plays that we added in towards the end of the season last year and I never even knew like where the base play came from. And so being in training camp has just allowed me to help learn the base principles of what they teach here at the Thunder, offensively and defensively.โ
Shai beats defenders in many ways and stays unselfish until it is time to take over.
โwhat makes him so special is being able to just beat you in so many different ways whether it off the dribble in the mid three to the rim. I think that makes it so hard to guard and he does a great job of being unselfish out there and when it's time to take over, we know he can.โ
Thunder camp has stressed getting out fast and pushing the ball ahead with unselfish play.
โit comes back to, you know, pretty much our principles and what we've been working on in training camp is, you know, getting out fast and making outlets, getting the ball up ahead. And I think we all play unselfish. We all want to see a person win and succeed.โ
Mara's teammates are running the floor for his deep outlets and even throwing him post passes.
โThey've learned that he outlets the ball deep. So they're getting up the floor in the outlets. They're looking for him in the roles... even like they throw the ball to him in the post... it's a sign of trust.โ
Mara did a lot of invisible work between summer league and the start of training camp.
โHe did a lot of invisible work in between the end of summer league and the start of training camp... your impact isn't felt if you're not in great shape. And no one's in 10 out of 10 shape, you know, in beginning a training camp like this.โ
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