Payton said there's 43 end-of-game, end-of-half or other in-game scenarios for which the team needs to be prepared, and they focused on about eight of them on Thursday.

"We can do a wink and a nod and he knows when to go and I know when to switch it," Jewell said. "It's been fun to be able to understand each other's brains and when we're going to do things."

"Obviously he had a really good year that year, so to be able to find ways to implement the things he did well into my game, I feel like we'll be able to have a lot of success," Sutton said.

"I think our unit is something to be really excited about," McGlinchey said in late May.