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I’m actually enjoying attention. Who wouldn’t?
That’s the nature of basketball. You gotta go out there and compete.
My confidence level never varies.
I think my ability coming into the NBA is going to make it that much easier for me with the space and the different type of players here. I think just by the spacing alone is going to make my game that much easier and that much better for my teammates.
If you ask the guys I played with when I was little, they’ll all tell you the same thing. All I did was catch and shoot. I didn’t do anything else.
I remember me being that kid growing up. Me being the kid that grew up going to games and being a ball boy and wanting a high five from Blake Griffin or the other players.
I feel my overall skill set, my ability to make players around me better, and my ability to help my team win is unique.
When you’re around somebody all the time, you butt heads every now and then. That’s what happens in every family.
I’m glad people get excited watching me play. Hopefully I show them something new each time I step on the court.
I think I can pretty much do it all for a team. And I’m looking forward to whatever team I go to, making a huge impact.
I was never the big leaper, the dunker, the long and athletic kid who looked the part of a traditional basketball star. Truth be told, I wasn’t even considered a top guard coming out of my recruiting class.
I’m light-skinned. I’m mixed with black and white.
I just hope I get picked by the right team and the team that really wants me and a team where I can help and take it to the next level.
To me, I’ll always be the skinny, 5-foot-6 eighth-grader on the YMCA court, trying to get grown men to choose me for pickup games. It wasn’t always easy. And that’s what drives me.
I want people to say that I’m something new, something different. Something they’ve never seen before.
My favorite player growing up was Steve Nash, so that’s been a guy I look up to and a guy I’ve gotten to talk to a few times, too.
I’m getting guarded like nobody else in the country is being guarded, scouted on like no one else in the country is.
I want to do something different in this league, even as a rookie.
People keep asking me if I feel pressure. But I don’t feel pressure. I realize there’s a lot on my plate, a lot of expectations for me to come in and win and do certain things. But I’m just playing the way I always have.
A lot of my family is from Texas, stuff like that, so I was always in Texas, and when you grow up in Texas, around Texas, you want to go to the biggest Texas school, and UT was that.
Who wouldn’t want to be compared to a guy like Steph Curry?
I bring a lot to a team. I bring immediate impact. As far as my skillset, I can attack defenders in multiple ways and get my teammates involved.
My hair is different than a lot of people’s. I like my hair. I like the fade. I like the little design I have. I’m cool with it. Obviously my hair is thin on top, so it looks like a bald spot, but I really could care less.
There’s gonna be stretches where I don’t play as well. People are gonna be talking bad about me and not always on my side and cheering me on.
Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot.
