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 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 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, tuned in. You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle, brought you by PGC Basketball. Thank you, to tune in. You're listening to The Hardwood Hustle. I'm your host, Adam Bradley, alongside T.J. Roseine, broadcasting here in Atlanta, Georgia. We've got a great NBA shoot-around episode. But before we do, let's catch up with our friends over at ShotTracker. Adam, our friends over at ShotTracker have done it again. They were just out at the Hoop Hall Classic with the top high school teams all around the country, delivering live scores and real-time analytics through those games. I know we were blowing away when we were down in Orlando with them. Opportunities we've had to see them. They're just changing the game through analytics. If you get a chance, go check out our friends at ShotTracker and see how the game is changing. Yeah, I'm excited to see them continuing to grow. But, hey, before we get in today's episode, man, it is so good to be back with you, TJ. You know, our schedules have been crazy. Our schedules have been full. You know, new baby over here. you're in the middle of your season. A variety of different things that kept you and I from being able to connect. So, uh, hustlers listen, we are thankful and, uh, that you listen each week. And we're excited to be back. We've got a whole string of, uh, upcoming episodes we think you're really going to like. And a special shout out to our guest hosts that have helped fill in over the last couple of months,

Sam Allen, Graham Maxwell, and a variety of different contributors.

We appreciate them.

But, TJ, it is so good to be back and no greater way to start than with a fun NBA shoot-around episode.

Let's start here.

If your players pushed back, and we're going to break this into four quarters, so we've

got four hot topics to discuss NBA-related.

If your players push back on practicing, i.e. the Chicago Bulls from a few weeks ago,

how would you have responded?

So just to kind of preface it, if you recall, it was the morning after a back-to-back.

Now, quick disclaimer, it was a home back-to-back, so there was no travel included.

Keeping in mind also the second part of the back-to-back, TJ, they lost by 40-plus, and not one of

the starters played more than 20 minutes because

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