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 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 broadcasts here in Washington, D.C. I'm your host Adam Radley, alongside T.J. Roseen. Today, great episode coming up for you. But before we do, let's lean in to find out what's new with our friends over shot tracker. Yeah, coaches, a lot of times analytics can be intimidating, you know, something that we're overwhelmed with.

But here's my challenge for you, and I was challenged by this the other day, is just pick

one thing to start charting analytically in your practice.

What's one thing that can make your team better?

And as you continue to find things that are going to give your team really good quantified data, it's going to help them to understand this is why we do what we do. Your team's going to have more buy-in. So coaches, think about the one thing that you're going to start charting in practice and then start building on that. Awesome. TJ, today we're going to be talking about, is it important that players when they are hurt, that they are still around the team, they're still with the team, rehabbing, training

with the team, attending practice, sitting on the bench during games, or when they're

injured, should they be kind of just focused on rehab and it's not important?

Like they don't play a role on your team any longer.

This topic got brought up and really initiated through some recent NBA news.

Bruce Bowen, recently, if you heard it, T.J. ripped Kauai Leonard from last year and about

the fact that he wasn't with the team late in the season.

And this is what Bruce Bowen said.

As a player, if I'm a leader of a team, my team goes on the road in the playoffs, I'm with my guys, he said. Because that's what it's all about. It's about camaraderie. It's about fellowship. It's a brotherhood. When that didn't happen, referring to last year with Kauai, it's all kinds of sirens and alarm signals that says to me, is this person fully invested?

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