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 cheapness.

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 with beautiful.

You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle, brought you by PGC Basketball. Players, welcome to the Hardwood hustle, brought to you by PGC basketball.

Players, welcome to the hardwood hustle today.

We've got a great topic for you.

We're going to talk about how to become a really good defender.

And one of the things that, one specific element of that, but here's why it's relevant to you.

You know, really good defenders stay on the floor. Coaches trust them. And so it doesn't matter how fast, how quick you are. So if you've got those abilities, those God-given abilities, you have probably a higher ceiling as a defender. But we're going to talk to a lot of you out there that might not have all of those gifts. How do I overcome that when I'm overpowered? But before we do, I just want to send a quick thanks and a shout out to our friends that lead them up and PGC basketball. If you haven't ever been, check out a session. Come to a session and join us this summer at PGC basketball. We'd love to have you at one of our sessions. But today I got Graham Maxwell, and Graham was my assistant coach, but Graham was also a player for me in college. And some of you players might be able to relate to this. Let me just give you a little bit of background. But I was recruiting

Graham, and there's a lot of things I really liked about him. I thought he saw the game really

well. I thought he was a great teammate. I thought he could shoot it. There's, he played hard. Those were all things I really liked about him. But did have a little bit of a meek makeup. Not now, though. He's been in the weight room, trust me. But he did have a little bit of a meek makeup as far as like you just you know you were

a skinnier guy as I was in high school you had a little bit of size on you but a talk

more of a tall lanky guy really worried about his speed and his quickness I really

my biggest fear and recruiting graham is I don't know if he could defend at this level.

I don't know if he could be a really good college basketball defender just because of

strength and quickness and things like that.

And, you know, Graham ended up probably being one of the best defenders we ever had here at

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