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.”
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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.”
