Not a training day at all

From start to finish, everything that Alonzo had planned that day had absolutely nothing to do with any training:

1. The college kids. That was to get the dope, in order to blackmail Hoyt.
2. Roger. That was to make sure he'd be home later on.
3. Wheelchair guy. That was to get a name: the Sandman.
4. The Sandman. That was to get bribery money.
5. The Three Wise Men: That was to get the warrant.
6. The rooftop. That was to prepare for the bust.
7. Roger. That was to get the money to pay off the Russians.
8. Smiley. That was to dump Hoyt.

In fact, I'm beginning to think that Alonzo specifically scheduled the training day for that day solely for the purpose of doing the necessary errands for dealing with the Russians. Although I'm not sure about the time frame -- in order for me to be correct on this point, there would need to be enough of a window between Alonzo's murder of the Russian guy and the training day.

Questions:

1. The only part of the day that doesn't seem related to the Russians is the visit to Sara. Was it really just to have sex? Doesn't seem likely to me. Was it to say goodbye to his wife and child in case he got killed by the Russians?

2. Why did Alonzo go back to Sara after getting the money from Roger? Seems to me it would make more sense to go straight to the Russians.

3. Why did he include Hoyt in the day's tasks? Seems that the whole thing would have gone much more smoothly without Hoyt, for so many reasons.

I suspect that the answers to a lot of the questions about this movie are that there really aren't any answers, and that the writers just wanted to put together a movie full of cool scenes, without much regard to coherence.

If a private venture fails it's closed down. If a government venture fails it's expanded. M Friedman