“With all of our young players, we are encouraging them to be free thinkers about their own career, about their own development,” Hardy explained. “It's about who they want to be as people, where they want to end up as players, because I think in today's world, we have so many individual trainers. We have strength coaches, and staffs have gotten bigger.” The alternative, Hardy warned, is a dangerous passivity. “So it can be easy for players,” admitted Hardy, “if they'd like, to check their phone, see the schedule that's laid out for them. They come to the facility and get what they should have for breakfast. We say here's the vitamins you should take. They go into the weight room, and it's two sets of something with eight reps of each. We got on the court and tell them where to shoot. They can go all day without making a decision for themselves.”
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