During a late-August workout in his hometown of Toronto, Marcus Carr tossed up shots from behind the three-point arc, not missing for an entire minute.
The flick of Carr's wrist and his follow through seemed to go along with the beat to rapper Pop Smoke's "Got It On Me" blaring in the background.
Fourteen shots. All net. The first miss, though, was met with a shout of frustration by Carr.
Now that he has returned to the Gophers this month, the gifted junior point guard aims not to miss — not on boosting his NBA draft stock, not on proving he and his team are among the Big Ten's elite.
"He's got a lot more to show," Carr's trainer and mentor Vidal Massiah said. "I think he's going after the Big Ten Player of the Year award."
Spending the entire summer away from the Gophers, Carr got into the best shape of his career.
After removing his name from the early entry list for the NBA draft July 31, Carr stayed in Canada to train while most of the Gophers showed up for voluntary workouts in Minnesota. He made progress while remaining safe from the coronavirus at home.
"Definitely felt more comfortable to be where I was at," Carr told the Star Tribune recently. "Usually we're all here obviously together in the summertime. That helps with the team doing workouts and building chemistry. But being back here now I still think we're going to be able to do that."