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.

So that which gets praised, gets what you're listening to the hardwood hustle, brought

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All right, coaches, thanks for listening. This is T.J. Roseanne alongside Sam Allen. Thanks for tuning in to the Hardwood Hustle today. We've been journeying through the season, and we went through the preseason, then we went through the early season. Now we're going to talk about the middle part of the season right here. We really, you know, we're talking about everybody's journey, but also talking about specifically our journey. And we want a championship this year. And what did that journey look like and what did it feel like? And in the preseason, we talked a lot about, you know, just laying the foundation, right? In the early part of the season, we talked about being flexible and adaptable and also sticking to the process and how you measure those things and now we're in the middle of the season you're starting to find

out who your team is and what their roles are and where everybody fits in the best and I think

there's a lot of parts of the middle of the season that are crucial I think you know one of

there's a couple things that I think are really crucial one I think is um I love

Christmas break particularly because I think it's a time to regroup and rebuild and and to

refresh as well I also think this middle part of the season is crucial to prepare yourself for

the stretch run as far as identifying roles absolutely so TJ if you'll remember back in probably mid to late December, I was down, me and you were sitting in a hotel room in Florida.

Y'all just gotten beat.

You know, it was probably one of the worst losses you've had in the last several years.

You know, he gave up a lot of points defensively.

You know, you even referenced your dad

talking about shorten your rotation. He and I had a breakfast during that same trip at the hotel

where he was telling me, you know, he was like TJ's playing too many people, but you and I were

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