VICTOR OLADIPO'S
WORK ETHIC
TO BECOME THE
# 2
NBA DRAFT PICK
ALL-MET ELITE
DEMATHA HS.
HYATTSVILLE MD.
HEAD COACH TOM CREAN - In the three years that he was here, especially during the season, there might have been two days that he took off. One of them I told him not to come in. I’m talking about not just after a game or before a game or on a day off or at the end of practice, I mean, every day he came to work.
It started when he first got to Indiana. When he and Will Sheehey who is from Florida, became two freshmen that walked in and utilized our new building and started working on their games until the last day Victor was here until he headed back to D.C. two days after graduation and all that time in between.
He is an extremely gifted athlete, tremendous charisma, and just strength of will and personality. But when he gets in the gym, it is all business, and that is exactly what propelled him to so many different things. I mean, it was just common for us to practice and if we ended practice and weren’t going into films or the weight room, he stayed in the gym. Put his cones up and started to work on different things, with a coach, without a coach, with a graduate manager, and work on his shooting. Even if we went to weights and to film, he always came back out.
We got to the point where we went on the road and we took the cones with us because he wanted to work on and set the cones up at the walk throughs after we’d have our walk through practice because he constantly wanted to make his ball handling better, not only his shooting but his ball handling.
He’s just got a force of purpose right now that’s incredible, and I think it’s just going to continue because I think that’s who he is. That’s his work ethic. It wasn’t anything that we did to push that work ethic. I think we helped intensify it, but he had it when he got here, and I think he’ll definitely have that in the NBA.
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