Actually, the coaching staff had recently been doing tactical preparations for the Los Angeles Olympics, as unorthodox playing styles presented massive variables.
Although the team had all kinds of sparring partners with different styles, there was no guarantee the foreign associations wouldn't invent new tricks. Word had already gone around that the North Korean team was using a combination of pimpled-out rubber and inverted rubber.
Having these two voluntarily study and research it yielded far better results than assigning tasks to the others. After all, self-drive was the primary element of progress.
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