Duane Wilson had two options.
The 6-foot-3 point guard could have coasted through his final spring before arriving at Marquette and played catch-up once offseason workouts and individuals begin. Or, he could have set up seven-day-a-week workouts, finding himself in the gym and weight room more often than not to begin his collegiate career on the run.
Guess which one he chose?
Receiving on-court tutelage from Mike Lee—the trainer who worked with Jae Crowder and Darius Johnson-Odom before the NBA draft—Wilson does ball-handling work and takes reps as the point guard in pick-and-roll action multiple times per week, all in an attempt to get an early feel for collegiate work levels.
“There’s no going through drills or motions,” Wilson said of the workouts. “You go full speed because that’s how it is in college practices. It’s a lot of repetition, but as you keep going it’s like practice. When you go down there in June (to Marquette), I better do this stuff.” Continue reading here.