This is the way thousands of these conversations begin in thousands of Zoom rooms every spring, during the weeks when the real business of college basketball is conducted.
Already, the coaches in the video boxes and the players in their boxes have learned that small talk is a waste of time. It’s better to simply cut to the chase.
So, always—every single time—it starts this way: a simple question from the coach: “What’s your number?”
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