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.
To be a great player and a great scorer, you have to find ways to get yourself open and get shots off. It's a dog fight.
It comes to the point where, if a midrange shot is there, I'm going to take it. If I'm open, I have to shoot that shot. That's a great shot for the team and myself.
The Knicks left me open a lot of times the last time we played them, and I was just making sure I took the shots that were there.
You don't want to be ball chasing or really forcing the issue because that looks bad. You've got to just take what they give you and have an opportunity to knock down some shots.
I'm not gonna try to force to look for threes, but if the three is open, I'm gonna shoot it.
There's so many different styles to it. I use my athletic ability to create shots for open people, I run the floor, then also space the floor as well. That's what I try to do.
I've played with a couple good shooters, but I've never been on a team where there's been three, four, five, six good shooters. And I've always thought that nothing gets you open more than being surrounded by good shooters.
I look across the league at some of these really good teams and these great players, and you give a guy that shoots 18-footers an 18-footer, he makes it every time. Every. Single. Time. You give a guy an open 3 and he makes it every single time.
Most of the time when you're open that's when it's tough to make shots because you try to get some different focus than normally when some guys try to contest your shots.
When they take away some of our main guys, I just find myself open sometimes and knock down shots.
There's times where I could take all the shots every time I touch the ball, but that's not me. I just play a team game and just take open shots.
I'd rather take a contested shot than an open shot any day ... It's kind of boring when you take open shots
If you're open in certain spots, you just shoot the ball. It doesn't matter if you're good from that spot or not.
