I just love basketball.

I don't really get recognized a whole lot. I blend in pretty well.

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.

Coming into my rookie year, I could kind of eat whatever I wanted - you're really not too concerned about it. But you don't realize that a pound here and there is really not a good thing. It's just basic physics: it's harder to move faster and jump higher when you weigh more.

The conditioning aspect of things is really important, obviously in basketball, and then specifically for players like me.

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.

Preparation is such a big thing and you should never take that for granted.

I feel like I take a lot of pride in the patience that I play with.

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.

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.

The decision of where I wanted to go to school was very important to me.

It was really important for me to get a degree that carried some weight, something that I really wanted to do.

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.

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.

Some games you're gonna have seven shots, some games you're gonna have 15, it just ebbs and flows with the game.

Whenever you play with better competition or play against better players, it raises your level of play on both ends of the court.

When you're going through a game and you miss your first couple, you definitely put a little bit of added pressure on yourself. And there is that sense of frustration. You got to block it out and realize that the whole goal of what I'm trying to do is just get open shots.

The shots, all that stuff, kind of comes and goes. You're not going to be hitting every single game. You wish that you could. But there's a lot of other areas to impact the game where I focus more on.

Obviously my role is shooter, trying to take my numbers to another level from that perspective.

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.

Everybody's always asking me: 'What's it like playing with LeBron?' It's really hard to describe. I'm pretty fortunate that I got him my first year. He's an awesome guy, a great leader. You're witnessing such greatness all the time and you try not to take it for granted because you see it so often, in practice or wherever.

Some rookies build bad habits and it's not until year three, four, five that they get to be part of a winning-type organization and culture.

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.

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.