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 and cheap ones.

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 play a role in that,

and if you want your team and your teammates to be the best that they can be,

you can help that process move forward.

Yeah, so players, hey, you know, those of you that are in pursuit of being the absolute best team you can possibly be,

your coach needs help, you know? Your coach needs somebody. And you hear it all the time. The point guard is an extension of the coach or the quarterback is an extension of the coach or whatever. You know, we need more coaches. There's never enough good coaches. Now, there's plenty of bad coaches, right? And there's ways to do that, too. And we'll

dive into that. What's a good coach from a bad coach? But if you want to help your team win, help your coach coach. I find it fascinating. I feel at the high school level specifically, and a little bit in the college, I feel like the NBA does a little bit better. We don't do a great job as players mentoring and coaching up our peers.

Okay?

And I think it's a combination of, one, the players not feeling comfortable doing it. And then also on the flip side, the players aren't open to receiving it. So, I mean, it's got to be a two-way street. I can't coach you if you're not willing to let me. And I won't do it if I don't feel comfortable.

You know, you look at the NBA. You see a guy, you know, I covered the Washington Wizards for three years. And during that time, Paul Pierce came in. And I'll never forget how Paul Pierce attacked Otto Porter. At that time, we had just drafted Otto Porter number three at a Georgetown University. Paul came in on a one-year deal,

and he said right out of the beginning, right up there in Media Day, he said, this young man,

Otto Porter has potential. And he goes, and I'm going to make it my mission all season long to

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