Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall is always the prominent voice in basketball practices. He would like others to emerge.
Somebody to tell a teammate to hustle through fatigue. Somebody to call out defensive switches. Somebody to provide the kind of strong voice and presence that guard Fred VanVleet, assisted by fellow seniors Ron Baker, Evan Wessel and Anton Grady, provided last season.
“We lost our voice with Ron and Fred leaving,” junior Rashard Kelly said Thursday at WSU’s media day. “Some of us veterans are trying to fill that role. We’ve got to make that a consistent aspect of our game, being a vocal leader on and off the court.