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 of 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.

Okay, so that which gets praised gets what people.

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Thank you, then you're listening to the Hardwood Hustle, brought you by PGC Basketball. Thank you, tuning in. You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle. I mean, host, Adam Bradley, alongside T.J. Roseen, broadcasting here in Atlanta, Georgia. We've got a fun mailbag episode, questions submitted by our listeners that we're going to jump through. But before we do, let's catch up with our friends over a shot tracker, T.J. Man, I was just on the site a minute ago, and it was just blowing away. They track, you know, we think about tracking like field goal percentage, rebounds, things like that. Shot Tracker's got over 70 unique stats that you can get instantly with ShotTracker. There's a lot that goes into the game of basketball, and there's a lot of stats that influence winning and losing.

If you're not paying attention to the analytics, you should be paying attention to the analytics, and no one does it better than our friends over at ShotTracker. So, TJ, listen, Hustlers, if you aren't following us on Instagram, you need to check us out, Hardwood underscore Hustle, check us out on Instagram. And we recently ran a fun kind of mailbag request where we ask coaches submit questions for both you and for me

where we could answer in an episode i've got three questions for you and two questions for me

that i want to go through as we go through this episode the first one tj let's start with you okay

jack matt 13 asked what's the biggest difference in your opinion for players between the high school and collegiate level?

Yeah, you know, I'm always hesitant or sensitive to answer this question because it's not a knock on high school

coaches you know it's not it's not um necessarily their fault like i i experienced the same

thing as a player is that you generally play to what's around you you know you generally rise to like

i'm going to give this amount of effort when i'm in this scenario i'm going to play this so you know and there's a lot of things I mean even I mean I can even

go to the AAU scenario like where they're playing five six eight games in a weekend like you

pace yourself you go on you know I just think the level of intensity and the amount of time

you have to maintain that intensity is just really different than high school.

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