00:00them telling me it just made it easier because i'm like oh i wanted to do that anyways so it
00:04just
00:04made the journey even more fun what part of your game so far i know it's hard to tell right
00:09now
00:09because usually these things kind of come to fruition in january and february when everybody's
00:16body's breaking down but what part of your game right now you seem like you know as i'm going
00:22through this process oh this feels much better how easy to do this is the handling of the ball
00:28is it the shooting like what part of it just seems like this is the biggest jump i'm going to
00:33take
00:33from being in this tip-top shape i think the mental side i think that's really the because i can
00:40do i
00:41feel like i can do it all i always could do it all i think i can always shoot i
00:44can always pass i can
00:45always finish i think i can always do it all and i can i can defend with the best of
00:48them i think it's
00:49just the the mental side of uh giving myself permission to do it and i think that just having
00:53the confidence of going out there and actually doing it instead of just like you mean knowing
00:58it but actually just doing it you know what i'm saying just just do it you you already know that
01:01you have the abilities to do it you worked extremely hard to do it now it's just time for you
01:06to put it
01:06in in game mode what's uh been your impressions of the rookie ryan conwell i see like it seems like
01:11you've been uh putting some work in with him he's a he's a dog um obviously his game he's a
01:15a true dog i i went to go see him in the california class and i'm like oh yeah he's
01:19a he's a dog and
01:20he's a competitor and i think that when he's a competitor he's he fit right in he feel like a
01:25glove and then he also just wants to learn um i've just been kind of peeping that him going on
01:29a hill
01:29with me him uh asking to work out but we never really got to i mean we worked out one
01:34time together
01:35when we did when i did the defensive show but we never really got to like our schedule was never
01:39matched because he's a rookie so he had to do a lot of things with the team so he couldn't
01:42really do
01:42his own thing like he wanted to but i know eventually probably over the season he's gonna ask me to
01:47work out with me and and i'm gonna ask him to work out with him because he's he's a really
01:51good
01:51shooter he he really is really detailed about shooting and i can learn a lot of things from
01:56him just his mentality on shots and how he's on to the next shot each one for him because as
02:00shooters
02:00you can't just do well on one shot you know i'm saying i never was a known shooter i was
02:04just a
02:05guy that can i can shoot the ball but like how do really shooters think right like it's like how
02:09do
02:09you become really a good shooter it's like because you're going to miss shots sometimes but how do you do
02:13well and when you miss shots and a lot of things that i'm gonna learn from him i know but
02:16he's just
02:17a learner he's a dog from the uh from the respect of this band we were talking to him and
02:22he said uh
02:22you guys wanted to do something different with this whole like mini camp you dubbed it pain pain camp
02:27pain camp that's a cool name that's objectively a cool name uh what so like what went into all of
02:31it
02:31and how how much do you think you got out of it going into this camp uh the real camp
02:35tomorrow
02:35we built so much just like bonding together and i think it is it was it was short time but
02:42we built
02:43so much um just learn about one another um but also just to go through if we didn't just do
02:48because
02:48it was if it was just up to me in basketball i mean me and ben we just been playing
02:51basketball all
02:52the time we did difficult things that people probably don't want to do you know i'm saying like
02:56the golfing oh cooking yo you know what i'm saying
03:01yeah like a lot of things that people do that that's why we named it pain camp because we're
03:06going through pain together so we're golfing together we're cooking together things that's
03:09like we don't cook for real you know i'm saying like i mean i definitely i don't cook and so
03:13i'm
03:13like yeah i do it it's gonna be fun and we we put our minds together and we need to
03:17enjoy to
03:17do this task together and i think it was dope um just uh the bonding though was just the key
03:23part
03:23uh the off record with the key part on the court we're gonna be on the court so much we're
03:27gonna
03:27bond for sure that's gonna be easy but i think it would help us though
03:29just to play and pick up with one another um just to see each other faces earlier in the summer
03:35because it was just it wouldn't have felt right just seeing clay thompson on just today right or
03:40just yannis on just today or bobby like new faces like oh snap y'all down the facility now right
03:46like
03:46we seen it early in the summer and i think that's gonna help us a lot from this uh from
03:50the
03:51perspective of yannis you go over to greece a little bit to to get to know him what's that i
03:55guess
03:55was there things about him you didn't expect um i mean i kind of you kind of look at him
04:03be like uh
04:03he has this he's he's a he's a champion so he has this dog mentality but actually seeing it firsthand
04:09and seeing his like his mindset of how he carry himself how he go throughout his day how he looks
04:15at how detailed he is with different things or something subtle that you probably don't even think
04:20that someone shouldn't be that detailed about oh that makes sense on why he's who he is right
04:26these little things actually matter to him and it probably doesn't matter to the average basketball
04:30player but that's why he's different that's why he that's why i had to go to greece i had to
04:35figure
04:35out what was so different about him than the next person why is he an mvp it ain't just because
04:40he's
04:41stronger and taller than people because there's so many strong tall people in our league right we're in
04:45the nba but what is his mindset like what how does he how does he look at wanting to win
04:50in a
04:50championship so that's what i learned about him did you enjoy the food over there yeah actually he
04:55actually put me on sushi i didn't eat sushi and then i i went over there and now i'm a
04:58sushi guy
04:59really yeah yeah it was a sushi restaurant greece yeah sushi yeah it was good was uh what have you
05:08what have you made of pella larson summer he's been uh you know i mean we saw him at the
05:12world cup but
05:13he gets uh the extension he's got the headband on now like this is a big year three form what
05:17have
05:17you what have you seen from a guy you've played with for a couple years man pella's like the most
05:22i would say like i mean i don't want to say underrated because i when i look at him he's
05:26like a
05:27he's a really good player but people would say underrated just that don't really know pella and i
05:32think that if we're gonna base it off that he's the most underrated player in our league i just
05:35off of you can give him the ball he can play off the ball he can be your best defender
05:39one night i think
05:40that he has so many things to his game that that can really help a team win it's like you
05:45have to
05:46have that on your team because he does the dirty work he does he just does little things that you
05:51noticed last year but you didn't really pay attention to it because all the other things
05:55we're going through but i think that now he's he should be rewarded because he he does a lot of
05:59things on the floor that helps do you you have this uh this interesting thing when you were talking
06:03to the team you were saying like we're already champions like keep doing this thing with like
06:06already on accomplishments like where's that coming from is that like a different thing because
06:10you said like i think i already departed it might be i already got that like why are you putting
06:13yourself in that kind of mindset i think that growing up um i think that subconsciously you
06:19didn't i always wanted to be in the nba so i always in my head was like i'm an nba
06:23player right i'm just
06:25i just haven't got there yet and i think that i can do the same thing with the team where
06:29you can do
06:29the same thing with teams we always have a mindset of being a champion right now we're going to act
06:34like
06:34a champion we're not going to just act like a champion when we get the trophy we're building habits to
06:38become champion that's what it really is is building habits what do i need to be who do i need
06:42to be
06:42to become a champion right and i think that's like building those championship habits doing it right
06:48now instead of doing it in july right and it's like if we do it right now it comes easy
06:53to us and it's
06:54like natural it's like the standard so that's what i really meant about is like having championship
06:58habits now will you help you honest with this iguana problem say it again will you help you honest
07:02with this iguana problem nah i won't because i don't like it he said not yeah no not me that's
07:10not me
07:11yeah well listen it's like i'm trying to tell them man like it's not just an intangibles thing like
07:16don't it it kind of is oh yeah so we don't play with cringers man yeah i'm i stay away
07:21from them
07:21like it's not i don't even like the little lizards that'd be on the ground you don't like the
07:32lizard or a snake right and you like the ground move all right there you go i don't care like
07:38you
07:38care too much yeah it's fun though man no it's not yeah they like change colors and stuff it's fun
07:43no but it might be fun to you though i like that it is it catches him yeah you got
07:48it that ain't me
07:48i'm telling you like it's it's it's a it's a whole thing davion man listen it's been fun watching this
07:53summer can't wait for the season and uh best of luck along the way yeah appreciate you guys all
07:57right there you go davion mitchell point guard for the miami heat he is uh been putting in a lot
08:02of
08:02work for your franchises heat camp gets going tomorrow
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