The Wizards have gone from “Back to Basics” to “Back to Training Camp” after head coach Flip Saunders abruptly halted a sluggish practice Monday morning and told his players to come back at 4 p.m.
“What’s our record?” Andray Blatche asked. That would be 1-4. “Patience is running out, people are getting frustrated. I don’t have a problem with it. A two-a-day, training camp in November. Cool by me. We need it.”
Technically, John Wall and Kirk Hinrich are team captains, but the harshest player criticism afterward came from Josh Howard, who hasn’t played this season while recovering from a knee injury.
“We gettin’ ready to get a paycheck on the 15th,” said Howard. “For right now, I think they gettin’ a paycheck for nothing.”
Saunders said it wasn’t the first time he’d stormed out of practice, but it may have been a first for some of the players. Not Hilton Armstrong, of course, who played for Jim Calhoun at Connecticut.
“[Did it happen in] college?” Armstrong said. “Yeah, a couple of times.”
