If I get a chance, high pick and roll more. I want some triple doubles. I've got to get my handle right so I can pass and get it to guys where they can make shots.
I still play my fast-paced style but when the game slows down it allows you to see the little things - the right passes, where to lay the ball up.
I'm more off ball, catch and go, spot-ups, cutting.
It starts the fast-break a lot easier when I get the ball. I don't have to wait for big men to give me it. Just get it and go.
When teams are crowded in the paint, it's very hard to get in there and penetrate, but you got to find ways to get into transition and get into your strengths. It's a lot of thinking out there, you got to make sure you think and strategize.
I always thought the objective of basketball was to get the maximum amount of movement to get the easiest shot, closest to the basket. With the three-point rule, the whole strategy changes, and you make a move and then throw it 30 feet out, where somebody takes a standing jump shot.
Man, anytime the ball goes through the basket. It doesn't matter if it's a jumper or a drive. Any time the ball goes through the basket, and it's going through consistently, it's demoralizing for any opponent.
When I was younger, I was a guy who always wanted to get to the rim and attack the rim and just dunk the basketball.
I've been a Gunner for life. They play similar football to Barcelona. So ball movement and player movement is important to me in basketball; I think I picked it up from watching those guys.
You know, pass now to pinch post, cut, shoot the shot. Do things to facilitate the offense. That's what I did in Alabama.
Rondo is great with the steals, also on offense with the passing and court vision.
I'll always have a score-first mentality, because that is my bread and butter on the floor.
Depending on the point in the game and what's necessary, if you can deliver the play, whatever that is - heck, if it's a screen - and you get a guy open, and he scores a big basket for you, that gives me as much of a charge as anything.
When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
Basketball is basketball.
I'll knock down the open jumper when it's there, but I want to get after it on the defensive end.
During games, I love a Twitter-rocking dunk as much as the next NBA nut. But now, I'd slightly rather see a crowd-detonating (or crowd-silencing) 3-pointer, either off four or five whip-whip passes or (even better) off a steal and a one-on-two pull-up on a solo fast break. No shot in basketball can be more psychologically devastating.
I love getting in the open floor and running.
Basketball's fun; it really is. Because I've done it all my life.
I remember Michael dribbling at the top of the key. Everybody knew to just get the hell out of his way.
When I get the ball, I have to be ready to be in scoring mode.
NBA's spacing's really helped. Teams gotta really respect my jumper.
A basketball was in my hands 24/7, playing one-on-one against everybody and anybody, trying to prove against the older guys, just playing. The wind blowing outside, double rims, stuff like that, just always playing ball.
I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.
The key word is 'control.' I have to get to the point where I can do it like Magic does. That means penetrating, scoring more, taking over on offense once in a while, increasing my range on the outside shot to open things up for the drive.
