I'm more off ball, catch and go, spot-ups, cutting.
It starts the fast-break a lot easier when I get the ball. I don't have to wait for big men to give me it. Just get it and go.
When teams are crowded in the paint, it's very hard to get in there and penetrate, but you got to find ways to get into transition and get into your strengths. It's a lot of thinking out there, you got to make sure you think and strategize.
Against our zone, even really good offensive teams take longer than usual to get into their patterns, maybe 30 seconds. So we're locked into playing defense for that long... it's hard to run on offense after you've been hunkering down on D for that long.
I'll knock down the open jumper when it's there, but I want to get after it on the defensive end.
To be honest, I'm looking at today's game, and I put myself in that position and how I would benefit from the faster basketball, more threes, catch-and-go opportunities, attacking the paint with more space, that's what kind of gets me juiced up and riled up when I watch today's game.
When I get the ball, I have to be ready to be in scoring mode.
I still have my back to the basket because there's going to be times where I'm going to really have to score down low, but I'm really working on my face-up game because in the league, there's more space, and there's not double-teams and triple-teams coming at you like how it was in college.
The big thing that Giannis brings to the game for us is pace, being able to get up and down the floor and play fast. We got to continue to do that and not lose momentum when he comes out of the game.
When you move into becoming more of a shooting guard, you get more catch-and-shoot three's, lot of pin-downs and things like that where you shoot the three a lot more.
When you put pressure on the paint, you not only score but you force the whole defense to collapse and you can make easy plays to hit shooters.
Basketball has turned into an offensive-minded situation. They don't play on both ends. They don't play defense.
I just think I've got to be more aggressive at both ends of the floor. When I'm aggressive on the defensive end it really helps me on offense.
If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.
When we're able to get stops, get the ball off the glass and run, you never know who's going to get the ball. Everyone takes off, runs to their spots, and the ball just finds the open man.
I like to get out in transition. That is one of my favorite aspects of the game.
I'm never going to be a point guard, but you always have guards that get the rebound and take it coast-to-coast.
Golden State was basically a guard-oriented offense so I didn't use it that much.
I love fast breaks, and I love playing full-court basketball, but offensively in the half court, I kind of take my time, let guys cut, and let the defense move. Then, if I have a move, I'll go. If not, I'll just hand it off to a teammate.
That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.
In high school, I figured I'd get a few extra baskets by getting steals. I would just pressure up the ball.
That's what I do - I run the floor, I run the wing. Either get easy layups or transition threes.
I think I can help push the tempo just a little bit... I feel I can get the ball after a rebound. Push the fastbreak. Push the tempo. Get guys some easy shots.
When you're running next to a guy who's about to lay it up in transition, you just get out of the way because you know Giannis is coming to block it.
Running in transition and scoring in transition, prevents you from setting your defense up on the other side.
