Duke sophomore Wendell Moore Jr. is on the players advisory committee and discussed some of the top issues other players around the country have mentioned to him
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00:00 I kind of feel like here is kind of what we're doing now.
00:04 Obviously, we have the money to do that.
00:06 Some schools may not be as fortunate.
00:08 I mean, I can't speak for those schools again.
00:10 Obviously, I think the idea of a bubble
00:13 would be a really good idea just to isolate all the teams who
00:16 want to play against each other in that bubble
00:19 and keep things safe, keep away from the public,
00:22 just kind of keep us in our area where
00:25 we're able to play the game the right way and safely.
00:27 Yeah, Def, I've been in contact with a lot of my friends
00:34 I have around the country in college basketball.
00:37 And more strictly, I've been in contact a lot with our team.
00:40 And obviously, the first thing everybody wants to say
00:42 is money, money, money.
00:43 Everybody wants to get paid from this.
00:45 And that's a good thing.
00:47 Also, the main focus is, again, playing college basketball
00:50 and how it's going to be played and if it's
00:52 going to be played safely, where we can make it through--
00:56 I mean, it might not be a whole season,
00:58 but however long the season is going to be,
01:00 we want to make it the whole season with no stoppage.
01:02 So we don't want to have to start playing, then stop,
01:05 take a break, and maybe pick it back up or things like that.
01:09 So really, everybody's main focus
01:10 is just getting on the court.
01:12 Kind of everybody's hungry to play.
01:14 They've been waiting almost a half year to play.
01:16 So I know they're itching to get on the court.
01:18 And that's the main thing that we're focusing on right now.
01:21 I'd probably say, for one, it was a lot different
01:26 mainly because of the time we got here.
01:28 We got here almost a month later than we normally do.
01:30 So we lost a month in preparation and training.
01:34 But as soon as we got here, it was kind of like wheels going.
01:38 As soon as we got tested, everybody came back negative.
01:41 We started training and testing right away.
01:43 We normally start with our biomechanical testing and things
01:45 like that just so they kind of know how we can move
01:48 and how they can make us better, whether it's jumping, training,
01:52 speed, anything like that.
01:54 And the freshmen have been really good about it.
01:57 Another thing that's been different
01:58 is all our work has been individual for right now.
02:01 We haven't had any contact with each other, any live action
02:04 yet.
02:05 It's kind of just been everything individual.
02:07 And everybody's working on themselves right now.
02:10 So everybody's getting better on things
02:14 that they think that they need to improve on.
02:15 And the coaches are doing a great job
02:17 in helping us do that.
02:18 Now, like I said, the freshmen are picking up everything
02:20 really fast and really well.
02:21 This is a good group of guys.
02:23 And they're going to make us a lot better this year.