I want to be held accountable. I want my teammates and my coaches to push me to be the best that I can be.

I just want to show Atalanta who I really am and show my teammates what kind of teammate I am.

That's one thing I pride myself on is working hard in the weight room, working hard in practice, trying to become a better player.

You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire.

I'm not a nest-egg person.

I know you can't please everybody; you can't make everybody happy, but just getting that perception that I don't care about basketball and what it brings is a lie.

You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they're all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you're on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won.