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00:00 [inaudible]
00:15 Well, for me, it's very exciting.
00:18 You know, it's my first media day and I feel good.
00:22 Those-- these three months has definitely been helpful for me.
00:25 And, you know, I'm excited.
00:26 I'm ready to get rolling.
00:28 [inaudible]
00:49 Well, for me right now, it's not really about
00:51 proving, you know, anybody wrong.
00:53 Right now, I'm trying to find a niche on this team
00:56 and just find, you know, anything I can, you know,
00:58 help the organization out.
00:59 And just talking to, you know, the coaching staff,
01:02 talking to some of the players, you know,
01:03 that's something that's definitely going to be needed
01:05 for me, you know, as a-- as a competitive person,
01:08 just trying to, you know, go out there
01:10 and just trying to win games and, you know,
01:12 trying to do my part, you know, as a player.
01:14 So just coming in here and just working every day,
01:17 working my butt off, you know, is definitely--
01:20 definitely, you know, something, you know,
01:22 I look forward to when we start playing.
01:23 For sure.
01:24 [inaudible]
01:31 Everybody.
01:32 I pick up on, you know, a lot of things,
01:35 on, you know, some stuff that people tell me,
01:37 some stuff that people don't tell me.
01:39 You know, for me, you know, I ask a lot of questions
01:42 as I go into a situation,
01:45 wanting to know a lot of things before, you know,
01:47 I start to, you know, not really--
01:49 you know, a lot of people try to like--
01:51 I try to go through stuff without not knowing,
01:53 you know, I'm the total opposite.
01:54 I want to go in and, you know, get the job done.
01:57 [inaudible]
02:02 [inaudible]
02:08 [inaudible]
02:14 Yeah.
02:16 For sure, it's-- for sure should be an advantage,
02:19 especially for somebody or a rookie to go to the G,
02:22 especially if they send you to the G.
02:25 You know, you basically can sit to the G for a reason.
02:27 So you just got to take advantage of it
02:29 and just go out there and play as hard as you can
02:31 and, you know, just try to come out of it for positive
02:35 and just try to get better from it.
02:37 If you were like the number one ranked prospect
02:40 coming to college last year,
02:42 and you had injuries and stuff like that,
02:44 you didn't have to take the student loan.
02:47 How important is the mental aspect of like
02:51 your belief in yourself to be able to achieve
02:56 the levels that you're challenging yourself to?
02:59 Well, let's see how I explain this.
03:03 You know, like-- you know, like on the line,
03:12 like, you know, on the line, like,
03:13 needs to eat their food, you know,
03:15 it's like little nets, you know,
03:16 that try to get in the way of that, for real.
03:19 Like what Kobe said, like, you know,
03:20 it's trying to like, you know, those little nets
03:22 try to get in the way of, you know, his food.
03:24 You just got to get them out the way.
03:26 That's all I can say.
03:29 Yeah. Yeah, for sure.
03:31 Yeah, T-Row, especially when we was playing,
03:50 just the way how he used the ball screen,
03:52 just the way how he's so patient, so poised.
03:56 I'm like kind of like way taller than him,
03:57 so I got to like use different stuff,
03:59 but just his poise, his poiseness,
04:01 and just the way how he like wiggled his way out of,
04:03 you know, a situation or put, you know,
04:06 certain people in positions to score the basketball,
04:09 just using his touch, using, you know,
04:13 using the three ball to his advantage,
04:14 just using the whole court off the ball to his advantage.
04:17 There's just a lot of things that, you know, I pick up on.
04:21 Using his offhand a lot, you know, I recognize that.
04:26 Yeah, I mean, I picked up a lot of things that,
04:28 you know, that's very helpful for me
04:30 and something I can put in my game.
04:32 And just working on it every day,
04:34 you know, is definitely helpful.
04:36 [inaudible]
04:44 Is that playing more off the guard or off the ball
04:48 or two guards, that kind of way, or additional?
04:53 Well, I mean, I can see that.
04:56 You know, I've been working towards,
04:58 you know, playing a point and two guard.
05:00 You know, obviously we got, you know,
05:02 a lot of good players here.
05:03 We got a good piece here, Lamelo Ball.
05:05 So just trying to, you know,
05:08 just trying to help him out as much as I can.
05:11 You know, we got Terry Rozier here.
05:13 We got Gore here. We got a lot of good pieces.
05:14 So whatever the coach really need me to do,
05:17 you know, I'm willing to do it.
05:18 And, you know, we're just trying to focus on winning.
05:23 It's not really much as, you know, position-wise.
05:26 You're just trying to go out there
05:27 and do what they need you to do and, you know, get some wins.
05:32 Do you think there is a benefit
05:34 playing sporadic minutes on the NBA level
05:36 and learning, like, to be a guy
05:38 who's not, like, consistent, like, locational level?
05:41 Or would you rather play 30-plus minutes a night?
05:45 Uh, I mean, well, it depends on the situation.
05:52 I feel like both could be helpful.
05:53 You know, for me as a rookie, it's going to be some nights.
05:57 I'm going to play five minutes. It's going to be some nights.
05:59 I don't play at all. It's going to be some nights.
06:01 I might play 48 minutes, 40 minutes in the G.
06:04 It might be some nights I play 48 minutes in the league.
06:06 So, you know, whenever my name is called, I'll be ready.
06:09 I think it was Larry Hedges.
06:15 Yeah, Kobe. Yeah.
06:19 That last switch to eight,
06:20 was it a number or a step change?
06:23 He was supposed to go to Charlotte,
06:24 and that number eight was over, so, you know, I had to --
06:28 Usually I go three, but Terry got three,
06:29 but, yeah, so I had to pick eight.
06:31 Appreciate y'all.