It’s drill, drill, drill for newbies to national hoops team

Sat, Jul 25, 2009 (2:25 a.m.)

Jerry Colangelo and Mike Krzyzewski and Kobe Bryant and LeBron James made wearing the red, white and blue cool again, and it helped that those colors have been trimmed in gold since August. Colangelo assembled the U.S. national basketball squad, coached by Duke boss Mike Krzyzewski, that defeated Spain for the title at the Olympics last year in Beijing. Now, it’s onto Phase II of the program: two days of drills at Valley High to indoctrinate new players into the system.

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