Lauri Markkanen of the Utah Jazz discusses his military training including shooting and how it affected his preseason prep.
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00:00 Continue with a lot of the same stuff that I was doing.
00:04 Of course, staying in the woods changed your eating habits a little bit,
00:11 but once that was over, it just kind of kept going what I was doing.
00:16 What about your service maybe took you out of your comfort zone the most?
00:23 Believe it or not, even though I'm from Finland, I'm not that happy in the cold.
00:28 I think we had a pretty cold summer.
00:31 It was still just waking up and crawling out of my tent and see snow in the first week of May.
00:39 That was a pretty freezing moment, but it was not that bad.
00:47 Are you done with it or do you want to go back to it?
00:49 Yeah, I'm done.
00:51 You talk about the woods. What exactly does that mean? What were you doing?
00:56 Just learning basic skills.
00:59 Basically, we went to a shooting range a lot and kind of learned how to work as a team in the field
01:09 and camping, I guess.
01:13 Put up a tent, put up a fire.
01:16 How are you as a shooter?
01:19 Solid.
01:22 What's the percentage on that?
01:26 Hopefully nobody burns down on that.