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 cheap as. 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. I'm one of those set goals, 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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Players are saying for tuning in. You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle, brought you by PGC Basketball. Players, thank you for tuning in. You're listening to The Hardwood Hustle. I'm your host, Adam Bradley. Normally alongside T.J. Roseen, but today I'm going solo. Special thanks to our friends over at ShotTracker, PGC Basketball, Team Snap, and lead them up for all their support of the Hardwood Hustle. players, I am here joined by my good friend, my guy, Mr. Jordan Hawkins. How you doing, Jordan? Good. How are you? Doing well. Jordan is a sophomore right now, Gavisburg High School, and a young man who is an extremely talented basketball player, already has a couple D1 offers that have been been offered to him and has been a starter both his

freshman year and obviously he's still a starter today you and i've had a chance to build a relationship

over the last couple of years as i've worked with the team through lead him up and uh you've attended

and participating some additional lead him up training camp stuff and jordan i wanted to have you on

because i feel like your perspective you are living where all of our players that listen, y'all are living the same life, right?

Going to high school, you know, playing ball, trying to grow, trying to get better, managing the different dynamics, trying to get a scholarship, trying to get looks, trying to get all that.

So I feel like your perspective is going to help a lot of players that are going through similar stuff. I want to go back to last year, right? Last year, you're a freshman. You come in here. You don't start right away. But for all intents and purposes, everyone knew that at some point you were going to be starting. It was only, you couldn't keep you on the bench for long right the talent is there and all that let me ask you when you came in like did you have a

mindset like I should be starting right away like did you already have that kind of edge that

mindset honestly no I mean coming in as a freshman knowing that there are great seniors on the team.

I know I had to work for my spot, knowing that I was to produce every day in practice, working hard, knowing that the show that Coach can trust me to play me as a starter.

But when I got the shot, and taking every opportunity I got and fulfilling it.

How much, because you started, you end up getting the starting night around like game four or five.

So like games one through four, how much playing time were you getting?

Maybe like 15, 20 minutes ago.

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