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“I mean, I don't hate attention. I don't embrace it or like it a whole lot.”
“I played football growing up so I used to lift quite a bit when I was in high school. And then I got to Virginia I was lucky, good strength and conditioning program and coach there.”
“I kind of look like I work in a Brooklyn coffee shop.”
“I feel like I play with good poise and I know when to take my shot - and when I do, I have a lot of confidence.”
“Everybody has a different path to making it in this league. I was fortunate to get an opportunity here in Brooklyn.”
“The conditioning aspect of things is really important, obviously in basketball, and then specifically for players like me.”
“Cleveland, although I didn't play a lot I really learned a ton in my year and a half of being there. I was really fortunate to be around some of the game's best players.”
“There have been lots of times in my career where you go four or five games and feel like you can't hit anything. And you also have the exact opposite.”
“I don't really get recognized a whole lot. I blend in pretty well.”
“If you look at all the top shooters in the NBA, guys that might be specialists like how I see myself, they're always 40 percent and above. So, that's a personal goal for me to get into that elite three-point shooting percentage.”
“In college you might think you travel a lot, but it is nowhere close to the NBA.”
“Coach Blatt is very, very knowledgeable about the game. And it just goes to show you that no matter where you're at, he knows as much about basketball as anyone. You learn a lot from him. And he's a very charming guy, very personable. He's pretty funny, too.”
“It's hard to compete with everything that Brooklyn has to offer as a city.”
“When you have guards that are versatile, it just makes it a lot easier in terms of who you put on the court.”
“I'm one of the best shooters in the League.”
“The way I play - I'm the guy moving, coming off screens, getting up and down the floor. I should be one of the better-conditioned athletes out there.”
“I loved going to a place like Virginia, making a connection and meeting the people that are outside of the whole basketball realm, and earning my degree from there.”
“Sometimes you've got to be able to finish at the rim.”
“The NBA is a difficult thing because the head coaches, they definitely have one of the more difficult jobs and one of the jobs with, I guess, little amount of security as possible. There's so much turnover all the time.”
“Yeah, I had a good relationship with Coach Blatt. I enjoyed playing for him. But the NBA is, first and foremost, a business, and as much as you may have liked the situation you were at, sometimes it just doesn't work out your way.”