Although three weeks remain before the official start of daily practice, the Utes were allowed to hold their first full-team workout this week -- so long as it remained under the weekly limit of two hours that coaches are allowed to spend with their players.

So the Utes went for 90 minutes early in the morning on Thursday, with apparently mixed results.

Coach Jim Boylen said he's pleased with his players and said they comprise an intelligent team, but they're still not doing everything the way he wants. The Utes fell 20 minutes behind "right off the bat," he said, because he had to spend too much time re-teaching certain important details.

"I've raised the expectations, and these guys practice sometimes like there's no consequences to their actions," he said. "We're not going to play that way."

Boylen was particularly annoyed that the veterans on the team were not mindful enough to avoid putting two rookies in the same group for drills, a recipe for confusion because the new guys -- junior-college transfer guard Tyler Kepkay and freshman guard Carlon Brown and forward Morgan Grim -- are still learning.

"The good things are we have a very good shooting team and we have a very intelligent team," Boylen said. "We picked up all the stuff I threw at these guys pretty quick. Now, we're not doing it always doing it right and we're not doing it hard enough, but we know what we're doing.

"The bad things are, we don't communicate, we don't help each other and we don't have any clue about how hard we have to practice," he added. "But I'm happy with them, I'm thankful for the players I have, and we're going to keep working hard."