During any typical Bucks practice, you might hear a whistle blow and a muffled groan from players, then you'll hear four dreaded words: "Get on the line."

That would be new coach Jason Kidd, stopping the action and putting his players on the baseline to run sprints as a sort of punishment for a collective or individual mistake. Before he does, he will ask the offending party about the error, wait till he gets the answer, then send his players on their way, sprinting up and down.

For those who played high school basketball, this arrangement probably sounds familiar. But in the NBA?

"It kind of reminds you of a backyard coach just because he will stop practice and say, 'Get on the line, let's get some lines in. Let's get some ups and downs,'" veteran guard O.J. Mayo said. "It's a little different because the NBA is not like that, but he takes it back to how he would have liked it when he played."

There is no doubt it is an effective weapon for Kidd. Nothing punctuates a directive better than putting it with some physical exertion.

"It gets the point across," point guard Brandon Knight said. "Sometimes a coach can say, 'Don't do this, don't do that.' But guys will continue to do it. When you have got to run up and down, you have got to sprint seven or eight times, and you've got a game the next day, you'll figure it out."

Kidd, of course, is in his first year in Milwaukee, following a messy and bizarre breakup after just one season in Brooklyn, in which his team won 44 games and reached the second round of the playoffs. He shocked many not only by contorting his way out of the Nets job in late June, but making the leap to the Bucks, a group that won just 15 games last season.

Now, Kidd is heading up a team that features two 19-year-old starters (Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jabari Parker) and only one player (Zaza Pachulia) older than 30. That's a stark contrast against the team he coached last year which, at different times, featured seven players 32 or older.

But Kidd said it's all still basketball to him.

"It's just the age difference," Kidd said. "They're basketball players. This is a younger team, the team I had last year was vets. They knew how to play, a couple of them won championships so they knew what it took to win. We won a Game 7 on the road, so experience, time and minutes are probably the only thing that's different."

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