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 and chiefness.

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.

That which gets praised gets repeated.

You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle, brought you by PGC Basketball.

Think we're tuning in to the Hardwood Hustle brought to you by PGC basketball. Thank you, we're tuning in. You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle broadcasting here at the PGC Glazier Clinic in Chicago, Illinois. I'm your host, Adam Bradley, with Sam Allen, filling in for T.J. Roseen. Sam, today we're going to be talking about our role as coaches and helping get our players into college, right? And specifically from an athletic perspective, get to that next level. You know, I personally think this is a responsibility of

coaches, all right, not to do it completely, right? But it is a responsibility that we get an

opportunity to develop these players, but we also should take some ownership in trying to help

facilitate and get

them to the next level, not just from a player development standpoint, but also guiding them, right,

and not letting them get steered in the wrong direction or not having them need to go to some

necessarily online recruiting service where they don't know that person and that person could have

mixed intentions, you know, to do something.

But rather you having the relationship, you part of your guiding and mentoring process as a coach,

actually having a process in place that helps that.

My experience says this, Sam, more often than not, coaches will help their players,

but there's not a very formalized, intentional process that's been created.

It's not very extravagant.

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