
Carson Stafford
High school distance runner at Tahoma High School in Covington, WA — 3200m state placer, 4:25 1600m PR, and Pacers podcast guest.
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Jul 31, 2026
Ranking the East's Best Duos Pt. 2: Where Do the Pacers Rank?
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Carson StaffordGUEST
I think h- he's such an interesting, like, genre of player because he, we've seen him be, like, All-NBA first team several times, but he also, to me, like, he's never...

Carson StaffordGUEST
Although he's All-NBA first team several times, he's never, at really at any point in his career, I've never considered him to be a top-tier NBA player.

Carson StaffordGUEST
Um, to me, he's always in that, like, second tier of, like, really good All-NBA guys, but never top three, top four guy.
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Pacers Reveal Gold Pinstripes + Ranking the East’s Best Duos Pt. 1
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Carson StaffordGUEST
Um, I think that there are, there are other score first guards in the NBA with defensive weaknesses.
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Ep. 198 - Marginal Gains & Being a Student of the Sport With the Fastest Washington Sophomore | Inside the Mind of Carson Stafford
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11:02NicholasHOST
Maybe not right now because obviously we're tapering, but what do you optimize for? What do you do specifically in your training? You're a sophomore, so I'm sure it's a little different than if you were a senior, maybe running higher mileage, but what are you up to right now?

Carson StaffordGUEST
So, I mean, typically, like, when I test lactate, it's on a lot of, like, threshold work just so I can make sure I'm in, like, the right, like, metabolic threshold zone, like, or close to my LT2 or LT1, depending on what I'm doing and, like, sub-threshold.

Carson StaffordGUEST
So, like, I'll test, like, two times a workout, like, kind of, like, in the middle, closer to the end.

Carson StaffordGUEST
Since I know my own zones with the numbers, I try to just have the lactate come down as I'm finishing the workout.
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34:43NicholasHOST
Not to act like you're the king of all kings, but what do you think separates you from a lot of the other athletes? And your abilities, like mentally, what mindset, what attitude towards the sport do you think separates you or maybe a lot of the other good guys from everybody else?
