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

I don't care what the scoreboard sends 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 of 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.

So that which gets praised gets repeated.

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Thank you for tuning in. You're listening to The Hardwood Hustle, brought to you by PGC Basketball. Thank you for tuning in. You're listening to The Hardwood Hustle. I'm your host, Adam Bradley, alongside T.J. Roseen, broadcasting here in Washington, D.C. We've got a fun NBA shoot-around episode with four quarters. But before we do, let's tip this thing off with the need to know from our friends over at ShotTracker. Yeah, Adam, as we're're doing an NBA shoot around today I was thinking about so much knowledge I've gotten from our friends over at shot tracker and I was thinking about Stephen O'Shea who does analytics and works for

shot tracker over there and a genius yeah genius right and he was talking about how the back to the

basket post player is the postplay is the lowest rated shot in the And so I think as coaches, we have to start thinking about how much are we using that? Do we have a player deserves the ball around there? And the interesting thing about that is so many bigs got chosen early in the NBA draft. But Shot-Tracker helped us to learn that it's one of the lower percentage shots that you can take is a back-to-the-back post-up.

Yet people are still drafting that type of players, and a lot of us as coaches are really going to that well, maybe too many times. So just think about that as you work with your team and take that tip from our friends at ShotTracker. All right, TJ, four quarters today and today's shoot-around. First quarter, we're going to talk about Puma being back in basketball.

Interesting.

Quarter two, Lakers GM said he believed... T.J. Four quarters today in today's shoot-around. First quarter, we're going to talk about Puma being back in basketball. Interesting.

Quarter two, Lakers GM said he believes other teams have natural envy of the Lakers and influences their willingness to work and trade with them.

We'll then take a halftime break in third quarter. Donovan Mitchell said he'd rather beat LeBron than play with him.

Do you like that mindset? Do you believe him? We'll talk about that. And then lastly, where would we like to see LeBron James land and

free agency? I've got potentially a bombshell on that answer that I'm going to wait until the end

that no one will probably expect. I'll probably be the first person ever have said this theory,

but this is where I would like to see him go.

But let's start at the top.

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