All the extra work that I did paid off. The practice got me to the level that I needed to be to compete. Every player's goal is to get a college scholarship and go to the NBA, so the hard work is necessary.

I was pathetic my ninth grade year. I couldn't even make a lay-up and you can forget about a long range shot.

Everybody used to always come up to me and tell me that I needed to play basketball. They said I was too tall not to have a basketball in my hands. The comments by other people got me interested in the game.

We need to be more physical, which we were [Thursday], but we need to be even more physical and work on the mental things. We also need to keep focusing on the fundamentals.

Rather we had a few schools that did not take the necessary verification work seriously enough.

He's really been working hard, ... He would come out for junior high practice, and then stay and work out with the senior team.