Uh , we were in contact throughout the year but never really officially , you know , said , hey , come play for us , um , so I didn't know exactly what I was going to do . Academics and basketball , I would say , are always , you know , are 1A 1B . I don't know which one's 1A 1B necessarily , but they've always been my main priorities .
how he takes , you know , sometimes you gotta take a little break on the game goes in the corner , how , how you space there's so many different things that you learned through scout team and through watching other great players . Yeah , there's a lot that goes on in college basketball . It's not just the guys that you see on the court with the lights on .
I think the most important thing is focusing on yourself , um , you know , you could think you could , you could look at it like , OK , I wanna play at this school , I wanna play at that school . The the extrinsic rewards of basketball will come . You gotta focus on your yourself you gotta focus on what you you do best and what your weaknesses are and everything else will fall in place .
Um , like a Colin Gillespie is always one of my favorites to run , um , just because he shoots so many threes , so I had the green light that day and running off screens and , you know , yeah , and I feel like that's really developed my game as well because sometimes I have to go crash , sometimes my personnel is go crash the glass , rebound , play super hard , rake rake in the gap , uh , try to get steals sometimes it's just like , OK , he's a softer defender , so give him , uh , he plays a little bit softer , um . Shoots a lot more threes , step back threes or sometimes it's bully ball in the paint , uh , sometimes it's just pass first , can't shoot the ball , so you know , playing , you know , practicing those different kind of players has really developed my game and you know really gave me a holistic view of how , you know , basketball works , how basketball should be played , um , and then I get to pick and choose what I want in my own bag , right ? So like , OK .
What's up everybody ? This is Samuel Smani Cra University basketball . I don't know if it's necessarily a piece of advice , but it's setting an example , and I would say that's a testament to my high school coach who's been my coach from middle school to my senior year of high school and then also my older brother there in the back .
