01-09-2022, 06:56 PM
I really enjoyed watching All In, and I was surprised at how emotional it felt to relive last season's championship run. For us fans, it was a long time coming, but truly worth the wait.
One tidbit that stuck out to me, as I hadn't seen it reported elsewhere: When the players first returned to campus for the 2020-2021 season, some of them broke the five-day quarantine requirement and went to shoot around together at an off-campus gym on day four. Subsequently, multiple players received positive Covid test results. They hinted at Tara's reaction (not good would be an understatement), and it seemed as though this was a real impetus for the team's discipline around Covid protocols going forward. Obviously, a highly transmissible virus can strike anyone, no matter how careful they are, but many of us noted now many other programs had to cancel games, while Stanford seemed less impacted overall. Last year's players got a taste early on of how carelessness could impact not only them but their teammates, and it's clear that they resolved to play for each other and make smart decisions for one another. Cue shots of everyone double masked for the rest of the season. It seems protocols were so strict that Jones and Belibi even had to ask Tara's permission before they famously went to hug Boston after we beat South Carolina in the final four!
One tidbit that stuck out to me, as I hadn't seen it reported elsewhere: When the players first returned to campus for the 2020-2021 season, some of them broke the five-day quarantine requirement and went to shoot around together at an off-campus gym on day four. Subsequently, multiple players received positive Covid test results. They hinted at Tara's reaction (not good would be an understatement), and it seemed as though this was a real impetus for the team's discipline around Covid protocols going forward. Obviously, a highly transmissible virus can strike anyone, no matter how careful they are, but many of us noted now many other programs had to cancel games, while Stanford seemed less impacted overall. Last year's players got a taste early on of how carelessness could impact not only them but their teammates, and it's clear that they resolved to play for each other and make smart decisions for one another. Cue shots of everyone double masked for the rest of the season. It seems protocols were so strict that Jones and Belibi even had to ask Tara's permission before they famously went to hug Boston after we beat South Carolina in the final four!