When Smart wants ball pressure, he screams for Heat! over and over. When one group dallies on the floor after a rep against the scout team, a head coach rejoinder follows: Don’t walk off. Over the next half-hour, before the fans trickle in for the public portion of the practice, a very Shaka Smart workout unfolds. A job change doesn’t necessarily change the person in the job or what they do best to achieve success.

Building a staff and a roster, and so on. Taking the Marquette gig is a life change, inevitably. That slogan is a four-word declaration from Smart about the way he’ll do the job of college basketball coach, proof of life for his approach. But that mantra on that piece of team gear is nothing new, conjured a couple years earlier in a spot roughly 1,200 miles south of here, and carried along to the shores of Lake Michigan a few months back. Those four syllables alone settle the question that’s tagged along for a few months now, for anyone who knows a little about everything that happened before today: No, this is not the reinvention of Shaka Smart. He’s about to get to work in this arena for the first time in this capacity, checking his notes and wearing a blue T-shirt with LOST IN THE FIGHT emblazoned on the front of it. MILWAUKEE - Ten minutes before the appointed practice time, Marquette men’s basketball players cross the Fiserv Forum floor on a diagonal, bound for the far northwest tunnel and the locker room beyond it.

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