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“Obviously, back-to-backs are tough... but everyone goes through it in this league.”
“If you stay around in the NBA long enough, you're going to bounce around, your teammates are going to bounce around, but those friendships, they remain constant.”
“Yeah, I think any time you're comfortable playing within a system you're going to play more aggressive. You're going to play with more confidence.”
“I was fortunate in college to play as a freshman, but in the NBA, not a lot of rookies are coming in and making a significant impact right off the bat.”
“I've kind of given up trying to evaluate college guys, especially guys from Virginia, just because of my bias.”
“I was lucky in my rookie year to play in the NBA Finals, to have that experience, to see what it was like to get to that stage.”
“To actually play a game, where you are in the World Cup, there is significance to it, the point differential matters, all these things kind of add up.”
“I come from a town in Washington state that might not be too familiar to Clevelanders called Chelan. It's really beautiful. It's about two-and-a-half hours east of Seattle and two-and-a-half hours west of Spokane. It's right in the middle of the state.”
“If I ever got into trouble with my sisters or was slacking off, it was always my punishment that I couldn't go to a practice or a game. That was the worst thing in the world.”
“We're all going to have ups and downs throughout the course of the season.”
“I think I've gotten more comfortable and more confident on the defensive end. I've just been able to anticipate things a little bit better instead of reacting to how guys play offensively.”
“Obviously my role is shooter, trying to take my numbers to another level from that perspective.”
“None of us are perfect all the time.”
“There's only so much you can do as far as individual skill work and conditioning on a bike. But you can't simulate playing in an actual game. And it can't satisfy the competitive itch you feel as a player.”
“Every step of way, going from a small town to Charlottesville and playing in the ACC - that whole experience is a difficult adjustment. In all of that, you really grow as a person and as a basketball player.”
“You don't look through the NBA schedule and say, 'this is going to be an easy night.'”
“Obviously, you hope to make shots. But you can't put too much pressure on yourself to make it, because whether or not they go in, you're creating space everybody else.”
“I grew up in kind of a resort community. I lived on a big lake. It was really cool growing up there. But a lot of people come there in the summertime, especially Seahawks guys.”
“I grew up in the Northwest, so I was always a really big Sonics fan. I loved Gary Payton, Shawn Kemp, a lot of those players who were really good through the '90s.”
“You can play basketball - if you're lucky - for about 10 years. So, you're going to have to have something to fall back on.”