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00:00 [inaudible]
00:07 How do you [inaudible]
00:10 challenges of building on having such a big year
00:12 where everyone's taking other things to other season?
00:16 Us as a team, I think our goal is just meaning
00:18 to get to the playoffs for me individually,
00:21 just be more consistent in the last season.
00:24 I thought there was a stretch during the year
00:27 where I was -- I didn't play as --
00:30 as well as I played in the beginning.
00:35 I think I picked it up towards the end of last season,
00:38 so I'd probably say just try to be a little bit more consistent.
00:40 When you play how this frontcourt comes together,
00:44 are you not lucky right now?
00:48 How is that going to play out in the end game?
00:53 I think between all the guys in the frontcourt,
00:56 you know, me, Mark, JT, Miles, PJ,
00:59 I think, you know, we're going to be like a very physical team.
01:04 You know, we got a lot of guys that are versatile as well.
01:09 You know, I think all of us could guard,
01:13 could guard, you know, three through five.
01:14 So that's, you know, makes Cliff's job a lot easier
01:17 and the coaching staff's job is a lot easier.
01:21 What do you think that you started seeing in your own game
01:24 and started doing that gave Cliff the kind of trust
01:29 to give you more run and that has led to,
01:32 I think, Sam said, maybe the extension.
01:34 What part of your game do you feel like went to that next level?
01:39 I'd probably say the game
01:40 probably just slowed down for me mentally.
01:43 Also, you know, I didn't really try to go out of myself,
01:46 try to -- I didn't really try to do anything
01:48 that Cliff didn't ask of me.
01:50 So I think that just put a lot of trust in him
01:52 and I trust in him within my game.
01:55 One of the things you said to us on a couple of occasions
01:57 is that you guys are going to have a lot of diverse lineups
02:01 with the extended GM work.
02:04 How different does it look for you guys
02:06 in terms of the different options
02:08 that you seem to have on the team,
02:10 especially with the different groups of five
02:13 that you put on the board at the same time?
02:15 What was your question?
02:17 How different has it looked to be able to be
02:18 the first time a lot of this?
02:22 Um, I honestly wouldn't be able to answer that for you.
02:28 For me, I would just say we have guys on our team
02:31 that, you know, any given night, anybody could show up.
02:35 I saw DPR when it comes to our bench.
02:39 I think something that held us back last year was injury.
02:42 So I think that, you know, we stayed injury free
02:45 and hopefully everybody stays injury free.
02:48 You know, it could be anybody's game that night.
02:52 If you start with a negative,
02:57 you led the team in a legal screen last year.
02:59 Is that something that you're aware of?
03:02 Is that something that you're trying to clean up?
03:04 Is there like a common theme that you saw
03:06 when you had the legal screen?
03:09 For sure.
03:12 I think that's just something that, you know,
03:13 last season was my first season
03:16 actually getting consistent minutes.
03:18 So I really wasn't able to get back a rhythm
03:25 before last season.
03:26 So I think that, you know, that's just one of the mistakes
03:29 that, you know, every player just has to go through.
03:31 You know, you see the mistake, you try to correct it,
03:33 and then you just move on from it.
03:35 So Ben, you shot one for one 100 percent
03:40 for each last season.
03:42 Yeah.
03:43 Is that something you work on with Ben
03:44 and all those substitutes and stuff
03:45 that they all might pick on her?
03:47 Yeah, for sure.
03:51 Rex, Bruce and myself, you know, we practice shooting threes
03:57 towards the end of each of my workouts.
03:59 It's not something that, you know,
04:01 my game is going to be molded around,
04:03 but it's something that, you know,
04:05 I'm trying to put towards my game
04:09 so, you know, later on in the future, you know.
04:12 Maybe I could shoot threes consistently
04:14 like a Brook Lopez or something like that.
04:16 No.
04:23 Thanks, appreciate it.
04:24 Yep.
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