I think in Toronto my job was to score just based on the system that we had. We played a lot of iso basketball - a lot of one-on-one basketball.
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.
You know, pass now to pinch post, cut, shoot the shot. Do things to facilitate the offense. That's what I did in Alabama.
It's easy to draw up isolation basketball - it's not easy to draw up great motion offense with passing and cutting.
It's always good to have players who can help us in attack.
If I pass the ball to Karl Malone, he still has to make the shot, or nothing has happened.
I think my assist numbers dropped off in Toronto with the way we were built. We played a lot of isolation basketball. I know we were in the bottom half in the NBA as far as assists go.
It's football. The game hasn't changed. There's not tons of new concepts every year that go in. Offense is offense; it's our job to move the ball, to score points, and keep our defense off the field.
It's kind of boring to me if teams never throw the ball.
Do passing drills that come from your offense.
At Golden State, it was basically a guard-oriented offense and it wasn't either around me or in my direction.
The triangle offense is more for slashers and people who like to take the ball to the basket.
Mike D'Antoni is one of the best offensive coaches in the whole game of basketball, by far.
I'd prefer to have 10 players scoring 10-15 goals than one scoring 25.
I feel like I am definitely an attacking player. I don't really know where specifically that is, whether it's centrally or out wide. I do feel like I just naturally have a mindset to go to goal or create goals or things like that.
We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.
Golden State was basically a guard-oriented offense so I didn't use it that much.
I like to get the ball in transition and go and everything, but I'm also not as dependent on having the ball all the time as I was maybe in college and when I first got to the NBA.
You have to have a deep passing game within your offense. It's got to be incorporated in some form or fashion.
I feel dominant - I feel the triangle offense utilizes all my skills.
Given the way Duke plays its offense and defense, in high school I was very interested in playing for Coach K. Then when you get there and see how good he is, you buy into it a hundred percent. He has a recipe for how to be successful on the court.
You got to be able when you get the ball, slow it down, read the defense, call for a pick, and go off a pick-and-roll instead of going isolation all the time. Just be able to use that screen.
I look at film, but more than watching individual players, I'm trying to watch a team's whole offensive scheme. I'm trying to know their tendencies so I can... guess. That's what it comes down to, really, making the best guess.
I think there's a lot that goes into an offense, obviously.
At Kentucky, the environment and the coaching staff is going to prepare you for the next level, but the way we played in college... there's not a lot of spacing in college at all. So, I mean, you've just got to be able to play off the ball.
