I think at the end of the day, regardless of who you're playing against, there's talent on every single team in the NBA.

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.

You don't really coach high school basketball because it's a good paycheck. You do it because you love it, care about the kids and you're just passionate about the game.

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.

Everybody has a different path to making it in this league. I was fortunate to get an opportunity here in Brooklyn.

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.