If you put your effort and concentration and to play into your potential to be the best that you can be,

I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book, we're going to be winners.

The talent for so many players today, the talent and the spotlight, it's taking them to heights that their character's not strong enough to support.

I'm one of those set goals achievements.

I talked about faith, passion, obviously, the drive with the guys that I've been around and the guys that surround me every single day.

If I want to be one of the best, I've got to play with and against the best.

Okay, so that which gets praised gets with beautiful.

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All right, let's jump into this training world right here.

You know, to be honest with you, Sam, the word trainer can be a bad word sometimes in the basketball world.

And I don't really consider you a trainer, but you are in that market, right?

You're in the market of training teams and training players, and you've kind of got a different route. You've kind of become a friend of the coach. You know, you work with coaches. But in general, when you hear the word trainer, right? I mean, there's a lot of things that it triggers, I think, with coaches in general. Like, you know, like in recruiting in college, we hear, you know, well, my trainer said and you think, oh, geez, you know what I mean?

Like, just being honest because everybody is relying on their trainer, like they know everything and they can train them to be able to do this.

And the relationship is a little bit skewed sometimes because, you know, that trainer is getting paid to be able to do this to market that player to be able to you know and so you're like hey you've got to take that with a grain of salt

I know a lot of really good trainers all right there's a lot of them but I also have lived in the

world where well my trainer says I should be playing at Duke and I'm like okay you know I'm not

even interested in you right now at our level so

there's that's part of what they're supposed to do so that relationship could be very interesting

in this world yeah and it's always scary whenever there's an industry where the barrier of entry

is really low yeah you always have to be skeptical of what's out there right because anybody can

kind of get into and we always joke that you could throw a tennis ball and probably hit three trainers right now. Okay? Like they're just everywhere, but Sam's doing it a little different. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. He's doing it different. But I think specifically today, you know, talking about anybody that wants to be a trainer, anybody is a trainer, and as well as, you know,

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