Maybe the muscle mass that he’d focused on building in recent years had slowed him down. Or maybe, as he shared in the locker room afterward, the experience of winning gold with Team USA in France gave him motivation and momentum heading into this season. It’s likely a bit of both. “That’s the carryover from the Olympics,” said Davis, who was among the United States’ best players throughout. “The body’s feeling good. So I think that was just the main part — playing (at a) high level, playing high intensity with some great competition, alongside some great players who made me better, learning from them guys and coming into camp ready to go, trusting the work I put in all summer and just translating it into regular-season games.”
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