But it just shows you this team and how much we care about each other, how much we believe in each other.

Just makes you want to play in the harbor market.

Talk about helping this ball come in.

Number one, 2017.

Want to help this team get 100%?

The only thing I'm really worried about it.

Like you said, helping this team is going on there and giving him all on the defensive end on the office and just doing I need to do to help us win.

That's diving on the floor.

That's playing defense that's being on the bench, clapping enough for my team, keeping them encouraged.

Do whatever it takes about two confident fans.

Oh, yeah, I feel really good.

Like I said, I'm well for a training camp.

I'm just taking it day by day.

I don't really look too far ahead.

I'm looking.

I'm looking forward for the season.

But like I said, Tiki, stay right now.

I'm focused on me today, so I'm feeling good how much he looked for tomorrow.

I'm excited.

It's the first step towards the season.

Just being able to go out there and just get a good sweat and compete.

Learned some more players, learn defensive schemes and and get ready for the season.

So when was the last time you considered yourself fully healthy going into it?

It's been a while.

It's been a while.

You know, I really haven't been like this since.

No, I've been driving, really?

So I've overcome a lot of work really hard on.

I'm excited.

Do you see yourself is kind of being X factor that can help this team take another step.

I definitely think so.

But I also think it's going to take a team effort is not just gonna be one little thing like myself or, you know, addition to the team.

I think it's gonna be everybody from last year coming back.

Everybody who has been added on just working as hard as we can during this training camp.

Listen, coach, on this execute, yeah, that's my goal Like I said, I'm just taking it day by day.

Right now.

I'm just looking forward to training camp, just competing in there.

So how much did being around team during the playoffs help integrate?

I think a lot.

One just always being in the playoffs atmosphere.

Everybody wants to be there.

Be able to learn, see the physicality.

So it definitely helped me a lot.

Just learning my teammates game learning.

We're gonna fight on tough times and just being able to be there for them while I'm on the benches, boosting them up, keeping their head up, just telling them stuff.

I see him on the court that maybe they they want to see a couple of veterans at the point guard.

Spot Almost doesn't help you take the pressure off.

You're not ever Not all the weights on your shoulders, your D J and Michael Carter Williams.

I think it helps a lot.

That was too great point guards.

Along with the rest of the team.

We got great bigs, veteran bigs, but as far as pressure, I really never feel pressure.

When I'm on the court, I just got there, have fun and play my game what you're looking for.

Playing basketball?

Yeah, that's the biggest thing.

I think a lot of people are cut up into all the houses.

Shot gonna be houses, whatever.

But the biggest thing for me is just I'm able to go out there and compete and have fun playing the game, and that's all I'm worried about.

If I go out there and do that, everything else take care.

So how hard was it playing for a couple?

What's the toughest thing?

Just like anything?

Love.

I think anything.

If you ask anybody, what's the thing?

They love the most, And that's, um how does it feel to be taken away from you?

It's tough.

I just wanted to go out there.

If I had no arms, I would still want to play basketball.

It's just something about having something that you love being taken away from.

He does that's different, so not I got it back.

I don't take anything for granted, and I'm just glad to be out there.

It's a I think I bring defensive presence.

Ah, rebounding.

Uh, almost everything.

I tryto bring a little bit of everything.

I'm gonna be that guy that's going down on the floor for a loose ball will be that guy that's going talk on defense.

I'm that guy that's going to help the team out to help a team mate up when he falls.

So I just want to be here for my team in this organization.

Cities recruited D.

C.

Through the years he's told you yes, is your D C point.

I think the D.

M V Area D.

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Point guard just have a different grid.

You know, you grow up playing outside, you're growing up.

You have to earn everything you get.

That's one thing I do all my life.

Just work for everything that I got.

So Michael Carter Williams began his career in Philly.

Top moderate, pick you and talk about what the expectations were like.

Not really.

We don't really talk too much about the past.

We do talk about Philly, just are great.

The city was give our thanks for them and everything they've done for us, an opportunity, you know, to be in the league.

We wouldn't be here without them, but like I said, we try to stay in the now just live every day wearing about that you never know when in my slip away from, So it is great.

It's one of the best atmosphere is ever been in.

I really feel like I'm at home every time I come in here.

I love coming here to work.

Just because I feel like is really family here.

You know, everybody just has fun.

We work hard.

That's the best thing about it.

Extended, you move and Jr on the same day.

Do you think about that trio?

Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt.

I mean, this team is really We got a lot of young pieces, but I think about every day.

I mean, I played with both of those guys in USA and a little bit when I was in high school and college, so I kind of knew them for a little bit.

But it just shows the potential that we have to go over.

You're around this.

Is there a sense that what, this 100% I think we all we all got a lot of hunger and fireboat up under us.

I think we're kind of looking at it like we're underdogs and we just want to work as hard as we can I think?

Like I said, plenty of times.

If we just work, it's hard as we can and take a day by day.

I think we'll be perfectly fine.

So was your experience like it was a dope experience?

You know, You see, a lot of pros come through there.

I got a chance to be Kobe, but their facilities great.

They have almost everything you need as far as recovery court saying every day.

So it was It was a dope experience.

That's so when How good can it could be?

Unbelievable.

I think our length is a big thing.

I think all of us have long wingspans.

Um, we're all young.

We all work.

Our defense is mostly about effort.

So I think the biggest name for us is just crawling our defensive schemes and playing as hard as we can.

And I think it will be just fine extending your contract.

When they did, they give you a lot of feel like they have a lot of confidence in you and take that off your mind going?

Yeah, I mean, it was really on my mind, but I think it just shows you to trust that having me and the relationship that we have to see the work that I put in during the summer and see the improvements that I've made, everything like that just shows you.

I think the ability that I have and also the trust that they have in me and I have them so bigger affecting your game is picking role picking Rose.

One of my favorite things, I think is a vantage for me is one of the things that I'm really good at, just playing a bigger role reading defender.

I'm pretty efficient at it.

So I think is one of the things that I'm pretty good or you weren't in the system with a lot of pick and roll in a system with more pick and rolls with that be advantageous.

I think it would be great.

I think it would be something that can help myself along with team, and I'm looking forward to it.

You said you talked to coach Clint Barmes every day this summer.

What sort of things to say to you?

I'm just about working hard, you know.

We crack jokes sometimes sometimes nothing about basketball, and I wanted to have the love buckles.

Cliff is that he cares about me as a person and the team as a person's.

But we just talk about things I could do to get better, you know, getting in shape, Uh, you know, stuff on the court, off the court.

Like I said, we just have a lot of conversation by everything you mentioned the other day down 7% body fat.

Feel quicker.

May I feel great right now?

I think a lot of people see I look good, but I'm still not done.

Yeah, I want to get in the best shape I could possibly get and is a big thing.

Stood a training staff.

They got over there, their work output in.

So I'm just gonna keep working your size, affect you as a point of being a 64 gun?

Yeah, I think it helps me.

I think I'm a big guard being able to see over the defense, unable to switch on guard, multiple positions, being able to go down in the post.

I think it's something that we plan to utilize this year and just something I love being able to do with you.

That I think is probably one of the biggest things for me is giving back to the community because it's more than about basketball for me.

I think there's a lot of kids out there to have been in the same shoes that I've been in, that I didn't have anything.

You had to work for everything they've got.

So I just want them to know that you know all.

You have to do a set, a goal for yourself, work as hard as you can.

And don't let anybody switch that up or change it and forgetting to see somebody like me believing in them and being ableto, you know, interact with them.

I think it helps them a lot more than it helps me, and that's all it's about.

It's not really about Megan.

Any shine for anything like that.

I really do it because I generally care so touched on J I.

Earlier.

What's the ceiling for?

How good can be made?

You can be, I think, a za good as he wanted to be, because he's a guy that works hard.

He's a god, as does stuff the right way.

He's a good person, so I think as far as basketball you could go as far as he wants to go.

But off the court, he's a good person.

So I think I'll carry on way further than anything else.

So outside of outside, just saying help, What goals do you have?

My goals are only just go out there, have fun and help this team win.

I think if I do that, I think everything else will take care of itself.

I don't really have any, like personal goes.

I just want to go out there and just appreciate, you know, playing the game of basketball.

So you talked about Yeah, that's just what I grew up with.

You know, a lot of people don't know that Me coming up, I talk about it a lot, But I wasn't one of the top players in the nation.

I was a kid that played varsity all four years.

I had to work for everything I got.

It is a big thing that my mom does by just never quitting.

No matter of that goes away or not, you never give up.

So that's just how I was raised.

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