— Fourth-year pro Elijah Johnson can relate to current Kansas basketball players Jack Whitman and Malik Newman, who took shots to the jaw and stomach that sidelined them for a spell during a highly-competitive set of drills run for Bill Self’s basketball campers Tuesday afternoon at Horejsi Center.
“Man, those drills are so funny. People look at those drills and they kind of overlook them,” Johnson said of intense passing and shooting exercises that start with the perimeter players on one end of the court and frontcourt players on another — the two sides eventually merging to run plays in a halfcourt scrimmage format.