I want to improve my shooting, my free throw shooting, keeping my turnovers down.
To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
A lot of guys go into the NBA not being able to shoot the ball well, but then they become great shooters.
You give me enough shots, I'll average 20. You give me a particular system where I stick close to the basket, I'll average 10 rebounds.
No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
I do realize that it's important to be a threat at the 3-point line.
I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.
I was a good shooter in college, but it's a different level here in the NBA and I'm working on getting better.
Most of basketball is in the mind. But it helps to have big hands.
I made a lot of big threes throughout my career, but it was the 3-point shot that allowed me to maneuver inside the paint, post-up, mid-range game and so forth.
I've taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you're in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it's on track, that it's going in.
Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
I run around a lot. I shoot a lot of threes. And that's just kind of what I've done since I was really young.
Each game helps me to continue improving, which is what I want. I want to improve in defense, on the ball, score more goals. I never want to get tired of improving.
Why shouldn't Harry Kane take corners? If he happens to be the best striker of a ball in the team and gives you the best delivery, why shouldn't he do it?
Defenses had to play us, obviously, out to the arc, but it was really, to me, my mid-range game that was probably more dangerous than my 3-point shot.
Diego Costa and Loic Remy are excellent finishers.
I'm a very good 15- to 18-foot shooter.
When I came into the NBA, coaches wanted you to shoot a midrange shot or two before you shot your 3 - you know, to get an 'easy one' first.
Great shooters are one dribble guys.
You got to be able to hit mid-range shots, you got to able to hit threes and you got to be able to finish in the lane.
If I see an open shot, I'm going to go shoot it. That's what I work for.
I don't shoot shots just to shoot shots. I'm always working in a rhythm, working on mechanics. I've got a checklist of the things I need to do with my form, my legs, my arms, all of my mechanics.
Really I can do everything on the court: pass, shoot, dribble, score.
