LOS ANGELES — Lunch is served in the team dining room, the chef preparing chicken piccata and fresh greens, but there isn't much time to eat.
Players finish quickly and head for the opposite end of their training facility, past a glass-walled office where coaches pour over game data, past a lobby filled with gleaming trophies. They file into a darkened meeting room to watch film, then commence with practice.
That's when things get heated, everyone keyed-up now, a coach muttering: "This is ridiculous. We have to play better."
