Coming up on this episode of Mind the Game.

Final countdown.

Let's start with James Hard and Darius Garland.

Very intriguing and very interesting to see what happens.

For the Lakers, there we go. We're six seed.

For us to be, you know, I think 11 games, 12 games over 500 right now, top six seed in the West. I think it's pretty damn good under the situation that we've been in, but we've got to keep going. I have this play that happened the other day. You start to recognize the patterns, how much of that is you recognized beforehand or just, oh, I'm jumping this? A lot of teams kind of run the same kind of sets. Kind of like this football action.

You know, to kind of confuse you, you know, getting guys going over the top underneath.

And I'm seeing now the corner of my eye that he's going to set a pin down for grinds. I read you stop drinking.

True story?

It's true story to when I stopped drinking.

So I wasn't playing obviously as the season started.

You know, so I needed to give up something.

I got to sacrifice something and actually did two things that I very love and that is drinking

wine and my chocolate chip cookies for dessert. I completely took it out. So I was like, okay, I wasn't playing. I missed, obviously I'm well documented. Missed the first 14 games of the season. It wasn't playing in November. I missed all the training camp, everything. So I was like, for the, all right, I got to do, I got to take something out. I got to sacrifice something, you know, and for the whole month of November,

I was like, I'm going to do no desserts and no wine, no liquor, no nothing for the whole month in November. And yeah, I did that. And I actually went all the way, once I got to December, I was like,

oh, I keep going. And I didn't have my first drink and my first piece of dessert until New Year's.

New Year's night.

So I ended up going basically two months.

That's pretty impressive.

Yeah, yeah.

The chocolate chip cookie part with the ice cream is probably the hardest for me.

Well, the wine too, because being not playing and being a little stressed, I maybe wanted a glass here, glass there, but it was good to get myself, you know, get my body a break and also to know that, like, you like to challenge yourself. We all like to challenge ourselves to know that, yeah, I love the challenge. So like, how much of it was for the health benefits? How much it was because I got to focus on challenges?

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