ATLANTA – Practice hadn’t officially started, yet Georgia Tech guard Josh Okogie was already checking his teammates. He led them during stretching, calling out the next movement while two lines of synchronized motion advanced 94 feet down the court.



On a lot of teams, this would be the time for laughter and jokes before the whistle blows, the coach appears and practice gets serious. But a lot of teams don’t have Josh Okogie.



It’s as if he’s on the clock the moment he steps on the court. And he always seems to be on the court.



“I have to make sure everybody is straight, everybody is doing the right thing, everybody is on the right cadence,” Okogie says. “It takes a lot of discipline for me to not goof around with them because sometimes they goof around. I’ve got to make sure everybody is on the right page, ready for practice.”



His intense approach to something as mundane as stretching begins...