how you feeling
feel good? It's been *** good, um, *** few days last few days of me being on
the floor, back on the floor with my teammates and kind of trying to figure
out some things that I can do on the floor and continue to progress.
I mean it's been different. It's been different every single day. You know,
you never know the response that I'm going to get the next day, but I'm able
to push um, I'm able to push through
um,
in the beginning of the process is less and less soreness,
still fighting through some things, but this is tolerable right now and I'm
able to do some things effectively. Do you have an expectation of maybe three
game home stand coming up?
Um, if I feel up for it? Um, that's the plan. Um, try to get back at it and try
to ramp up *** little bit, try to get back integrated with my teammates, but
just all in all how feeling day to day basis. How did you,
how did you feel
good today? I felt good last week
continue to ramp up, testing out different movements and trying to see
the reactions that I guess I felt pretty confident and strong and
everything.
Did you feel it would be this long, did you? No, you know, actually I've, I've
dealt with injury and I, and I pretty much know my body really, really well.
So it's *** little bit of confusion. Um, *** little bit, *** lot of patients in
this process of trying to get back to where I'm 100% and can really, really
push off and be who I am, but I didn't think it would take this long, but I
had to listen to my body before I got back on the floor of my teammates and
before I got back to playing basketball, do you feel like you're close now? And
is it *** matter of pain management or is it how do you know when your body is
ready to be back? I feel like I'm close, I just pouring this whatever tolerable,
you know, not not pushing over but doing pushing where I know that I can
be myself and pushing where I know that the pain is tolerable for me to be on
on the floor whenever I can. You know, I've been through injuries, I played on
achilles pain, really bad achilles pain and this is what I, that's what I want
to do. So, um if it's tolerable, I'll be on the floor.
I mean, even when they are winning, you know, I love the game of basketball
and I just, I like playing with my teammates more than anything. So just
seeing them out there and knowing that I can be effective in some way hurts
*** little bit of course. Um so I just try to try to make sure that I'm
staying positive through this whole process and making sure that I'm the
same person every time that I step on that bench on the floor and giving
advice and being there for everybody. You don't look at the chemistry,
Chemistry on this team and how special it is. I mean, that's something we've
been talking about since last year. You know, just having all our gods being
the same age, even some of the older guys just buying into what we bring to
the floor and you know, the great thing about everything is everybody is in
tune with getting better every single day. So that's the best thing. We have
fun, but everybody really, really wants to work on their game every single day
and figure out how we can continue to win basketball games, what we need to
work on what we can get better at. So I think that's the most beautiful thing
out of chemistry, the chemistry part that we want to get better. What's it
been like the process in keeping, trying to maintain your conditioning
because you're coming up and I think now to miss months, does it feel like
maybe you're entering *** new season training camp because you haven't
played in so long? I feel like I'm I'm *** fresh about it than everybody else.
You know, everybody beat up.
I just had *** chance to, to let my body rest for *** little bit and come
back off an injury.
Maybe the first few games will be some fun conditioning, but
I feel I feel I'm fine. I've played basketball game for *** long time, so
I'll be fine. You've been able to watch the game from *** different perspective
in the last four games that you guys have been up in three of the last four
losses at halftime. What do you attribute? Maybe some of the second
half struggles from what you've seen? Oh,
you know,
missing guys, You've got *** lot of variables um, out there that we can, we
can pinpoint every single night is something different. It's just not one
thing. Maybe it's *** misread on the game plan. Maybe it's miscommunication,
maybe it's, it's just something different every single time. So I can't
pinpoint one thing. But I know one thing that we have to get back to our
habits. We have small margin error, especially when we have guys out that
can really, really score the basketball, but we got to continue to build
foundation of who we are on the defensive end. The offensive take care
of itself.
Thank you. Thank you.