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some people might have died with that shoulder honestly when did you realize you were able to do certain things that other players might not be able to do even if I was playing against Jordan or whoever I would just be happy to be in that Court yeah Wy appreciate you joining the show man thank you so much for the time man your first highlight that I felt like went truly super viral was the putback dunk walk me through what you were thinking cuz it's very rare for someone to get a putback dunk on their own shot I mean yeah it's very rare indeed uh you know what was happening that was um important game we were playing pretty well in a possession had to take a tough shot and I mean I don't know it's just you
know in this moment you just have to fight for every everything every position and so I was like I mean nothing stopped me from doing so I just did it when did you realize you were able to do certain things that other players might not be able to do when did I realize I mean very early on you know it's it was I think it was one of the things that separated me very early on the next play is your game against Giannis it is an amazing back and forth between you two what was your mindset before the game any nerves I guess Yiannis yeah no not really I mean that I think that was on my birthday you know so uh no I wasn't nervous I mean I've never been really nervous is bad or is it like no I would say ner like
it's the debatable some people say that it's not great to be nervous I personally get nervous before big things but I feel like that helps me prepare and get more locked in for something so I don't know if it's it's a bad I mean I get excited you know and I mean I just every day I mean before every game I just say thank you know for earning my life while playing this game and which is my passion so I'm just very happy and I'm just so thankful before every game this is so it's it's all fun I even if I was playing against Jordan or whoever I would just be
happy see Giannis has a nice dunk and then you immediately respond with a putback throwing it off the backboard what made you do that in that scenar actually on the first the yanis dunk that was my mistake isz the play before they ran a pass to uh poris and I tried to anticipate but Janis just went to the basket and dunked it so I had to make up for my mistake and uh tried to take advantage of the split of the stream as a handler comton was early so I had and so I had to pick up the droal and just improvise and then what about on The Fast Break um where it's you and you see Damen Lillard in front of you and you go behind the back and kind of dunk it as well for Middleton Rama oh go oh no put it down that's a move I
work on you know uh that I've I've been taught when I was uh 11 or 12 and ever since i' I've been using it you know it's pretty natural to me now to recognize that situation yeah at what point did you know you were going to dunk it last second yeah I didn't I like I saw Brook Lopez last I didn't think he was running back actually I saw him but I thought he wouldn't be running back so yeah you're also I wanted to compliment your off the ball movement um you have this play against Giannis it's about to come up it's most people I feel like move the ball off this quick like are usually guards um when did you realize you have this speed where you can move off the ball just as good as anybody I mean it's
uh it's not always been the case so I'm glad that now my body and my you know my muscles I'm I'm a little bit more mature than when I was 13 14 15 you know so now my body actually allows me to move in this way and it's it's it's great cuz it's I mean it's the major difficulty as a TP person yeah and the last clip for us is you're going to block Giannis at the end here screen the drive oh it's kned Away by what are you trying to keep in mind um when trying to block someone as good as him I mean the first thing is you know back up cuz it's you can't guard yanis you can't get he's he's three point shot and his you know his shoulder head so you have to make a choice and the choice is prioritize him
taking a three yep then it's just got to make those hours in the weight room Camp some people might have died with that shoulder honestly it's the is it the hardest match up you've had one of them but uh definitely up there can't tell right now but definitely up there thank you so much for the time man I really appreciate it congrats on everything
