The successful completion of the first training session greatly increased Bird's confidence as a coach; he realized that being a head coach isn't too difficult as long as you can reasonably utilize your assistant coaches.
Technical work was assigned to Rick and Dick; Rick was responsible for offense, Dick for defense, and Bird himself took charge of fitness and discipline.
As for relationships with the players, Bird didn't need to introduce himself to anyone; he was well-known, recognized by everyone in the basketball circle.
Even the troublesome ones carried out the training obediently. Bird didn't want to know or bother with what they did outside of training.
On the third day of training camp, still no one was late, arriving at the training gym after 7:30.
Although Riddle was always the last to arrive, he would make sure to step into the Willamette University Gymnasium before 7:30.
