The gym is full of cheering fans with an announcer chimes in over the speaker with a live ticker.
Since the mass of bodies to push the other, literally all over the floor of the pavilion, is Chris Paul Allen and purple T-shirt from the players wrestling. The tip is to grab the opponent by the shoulders and try to push it through the gym. The problem, of course, is that he tries to stop you.
This is an exercise of power, will and endurance. It 'hard.
And it isonly the beginning.
The mass base of players from some other strong players who have the power for the elite college basketball and used to play basketball in high school. This exercise is one of the first effort of the range Elite Guard Chris Paul, a field of focus along with the position of NBA star point guard, Paul and sport on a clear goal: to build a better point guard.
The tips are entirely to be a playmaker concentrated, with waves of intenseBall handling drills. The coaches in the three levels of fitness, with players receiving two courses of high school and college players among others. The coaches screaming drill - two ball dribbling around cones, then two ball dribbling a ball in a pass behind his back, around the cone, and so on. The tips are rapid fire, changing every few minutes. Players grunt and push to try to master every other series of intensive instruction.
Chris throwsin the field, which takes place in his hometown of Winston-Salem, and engages in exercises with the players. How does pass-and-catch drill in one hand with incoming freshman UNC Harrison Barnes, you do not know that Chris Paul the great star that all players can enjoy. Today it is more than a mentor to emulate, more than a star player.
Today is a teammate.
The area has some of the talent in the ranks of college and two high schools filled with DukeKyle Singler Star, Nolan Smith and incoming transmission Seth Curry all the way through their exercises. Kyle Singler and Harrison Barnes be improved before taking a point guard field capacity, an attempt to push yourself constantly. Singler worked hard through drills, exercises an effort that would be an example of players to high school together in front of the gym - if you do not focus on the survival of the same drill.
Scoop Jardine will present in conjunction with otherSyracuse guard Brandon trical. After the first practice session, Jardine would have told his followers on Twitter that the camp was "hard as hell."
It is an understatement.
Kembo Walker, from UConn, freshman point guard Kendall Marshall coming to UNC and Wake Forest in the second year increased Ari Stewart and CJ Harris are also passing through the field, with Chris Wright of Georgetown, Durand Scott of Miami and a few more.
For high school students are demonstrating the exercises is howMasters of their ball handling skills as an elite guard and defend positions and what is the player power as Dezmine Wells, a 6'4 "small forward from the class of 2011. Dezmine is to take smaller, faster player at times, but works like crazy, poured in every drill. He uses his size to defend, as a guard Marquis Rankin receives a pass inside and flashes beneath him, is inserted in the air so quickly and cleanly blocked the ball to 'last second.
It moves then as DezmineFrom a great jab and blows up in his defense, he turns his head beams roars and screams of frustration and anger, his hand shot off the rim. The coach quickly and firmly say: "There was nothing wrong with the game, you did everything right!" It 'a good teaching moment. The coaches have been insisting on players not following instructions, all night, but obviously Dezmine attention. He is perhaps not always the result he wants, but he listens. EWhat makes coach happy.
There are so many talented guards in the camp, such as the increasing phenomenon Rodney Purvis (PG, 6'3 ", 2013), Jabari Brown (G, 6'3", 2011) and Jamal Branch (PG, 6 ' 3 ", 2011). Bishop Daniels (PG, 6'2", 2011) is very good at ball handling drills, and PJ Hairston (SG / SF, 6'5 ", 2011), UNC commit another, its size worked against the guards catch up.
Quinn Cook (PG, 6'1 ", 2011), modified sit on the bench with aAnkle. "I got hurt last night in a summer league game," he says, but he sits on ice, hoping to attend the next day.
At the end of the first night practice, the players loaded on a bus and drive back to the hotel, ready to collapse. Chris Paul is a hard training elite point guard in his NBA, and these players are ready for the challenge.