Photo: Gunther Cunningham, center front, the Chiefs' defensive coordinator, Coach Herman Edwards and a few players studying the playbook yesterday.
Lucia diagramed a drill and spoke while the players studied the board in silence.
Wren also pointed to technological advancements that can help players study data and video wherever they are.
Players study greetings in languages other than English, too, Whan said, to prepare them for tournaments abroad.
But Mr. Baker insists that he has what he needs, although he would like laptop computers to help players study as they travel to games.
After some Nets players studied the Hornets in preparation for Tuesday night's game at Continental Arena, they sounded flattered and violated.
Dr. Charles George, a professor of medicine at the University of Western Ontario and the principal investigator of the study, said the players studied had between 10 to 30 pauses in breathing of 15 to 20 seconds in duration per hour.
Clearly the young historical performance program at the Juilliard School, where Mr. Ruiz and Mr. Teresi teach and some of the other players study, is already paying dividends.
Similarly, Prokhorov argued that, by taking over an N.B.A. franchise, he would be able to help Russian coaches and players study the N.B.A. and bring their knowledge back home, and rejuvenate Russian basketball!
Now the Giants travel with a production crew, cameras, monitors, printers and extra rolls of film, capturing hundreds of still images that players study once they return to the sideline -- red binders for the defense, blue binders for the offense.
