Riley hinted a couple times in the postgame last night that the team overcame an unusual obstacle this week, so I asked him to elaborate.
"Yeah, we had, I don't want to use the wrong word, I don't know if I want to say outbreak, but we had a lot of flu. Like a lot, a lot of flu. We practiced Tuesday with I think 27 players out, and it ran through over half the staff. Guys battled. We had a lot of guys that didn't feel very good even here at the end of the week. The preparation was a little disjointed because of that, but said from the very beginning, we're going to get through this deal here at the beginning of the week and then there are no more excuses. We said last night in the team meeting, like, we wake up in the morning, nobody's sick -- period. Nobody's sick. So we healed them all, baby."
"Yeah, we had, I don't want to use the wrong word, I don't know if I want to say outbreak, but we had a lot of flu. Like a lot, a lot of flu. We practiced Tuesday with I think 27 players out, and it ran through over half the staff. Guys battled. We had a lot of guys that didn't feel very good even here at the end of the week. The preparation was a little disjointed because of that, but said from the very beginning, we're going to get through this deal here at the beginning of the week and then there are no more excuses. We said last night in the team meeting, like, we wake up in the morning, nobody's sick -- period. Nobody's sick. So we healed them all, baby."
