My guess is that by "team player," he meant mindless, unquestioning and obedient -- "synchronized" -- followers with no room for independent thinking, "personal momentums" or the worst of the lot: bongos or munmuts. 

Ironic that Rawat resorted to "team training" to coercively threaten premies back into such a sorry state of dependency and submissiveness.

Not then and never was for you and the rest of the beautiful people here!