Playing point guard position is
extremely tough.
You don't have any nights off.
My main goal going into my rookie season is to really
just make an impact to my team immediately.
Try to do better than
we did last year.
Coming in, you know, doing what I'm comfortable with,
doing what I can do, try to lead a team.
You know, I'm gonna be one of the youngest players on
the team and I have to lead a group of grown men.
I started playing video
games at a really young age
but it kind of started getting serious when I was around
maybe 3rd or 4th grade.
I want to say that's probably
around the time Call of Duty 4 came out.
I played that game non-stop and that's probably what really took off with me and video games.
So after that I've been
playing ever since.
The thing about Call of Duty is I guess you can do stuff
that I wouldn't do in real life.
You can die as many times you want to and you
come back all the time.
My friends and I we all
played it back then
And I just remember days
where you know, be eight of us in the house
and we just have like
a two-on-two tournament.
Those are probably the games that I would say mash
up together.
Call of Duty and my
basketball game, in real life.
I'm fast, always in attack mode.
But in the NBA you
have so much downtime.
People don't really get how much
downtime you actually have, you know?
You practice and you're done by 1 o’clock,
and you have the rest of the day to do whatever,
so, I mean, I have all that time.
I'll play games even more than I already did.
For me it's just a different feeling
when you're playing with headphones.
Especially for things like
Call of Duty, you know?
It could be the smallest
thing that makes a difference.
So you would be somewhere and if you have headphones in you'd hear footsteps coming behind you.
That's when it really helps me
to feel like you’re in the game.
Music before games definitely helps me
get ready, uh, puts me in the zone.
I don't really listen to, like hype music. You know, I'd rather just get calm, get in that zone, get focused
and just kind of cuts off
everything around me.
It really lets me just kind of
just live in the moment.
What motivates me about
competition is I just love to win.
Whether if it's basketball, uh,
I think I might have been in 6th or 7th
grade, my brother beat me at Need for Speed
and he started talking trash and I threw
the controller at him and broke it!
I just always liked winning.
I never liked the feeling of losing.
