I watched every game.

So I think, I mean, I saw someone, they were leading like 75% of the series.

It's really just the fourth quarters.

I think like in a 29 point loss, Knicks did start coming back, but I think the big thing was Castle without the game.

Late games, The refs kind of hold their whistle a little more, so it's harder for Wimby to get in the paint.

But Castle's a guy who really gets in the paint a lot.

So I think kind of slowing the game down, and they were really relying on a three.

Why is LeBron the GOAT?

How was your freshman year? How would you grade it?

I mean, I think it was good.

It was everything I expected.

I mean, I had goals definitely going into it.

I mean, I wasn't, like, under-recruited or anything like that, but I mean, I wasn't really known 'cause I didn't really play on any, uh, UIBL or Adidas, anything like that.

So just going into Houston with Coach Sam, just trying to prove the player I was every day in practice, just going out there and competing.

And then I knew...

Tell the team and the fan base of the organization what to expect if their team drafts you.

There's someone on the Spurs roster that Kingston here reminds you of.

Yeah.

When, when I watch your game, and I watched you throughout the course of the season, it's, uh, very reminiscent of a guy whose Spurs fans can resonate in, De'Aaron Fox.

And we talk about your game, right? That end-to-end speed, the, the vertical explosion of which you provide, I mean, you, you from one end to the other end is very reminiscent.

When you get downhill, you're hard to stop.

You get that momentum, the change of pace, the way you change directions in the blink of an eye.

I mean, what do you see, and what are the comparisons to you and De'Aaron Fox? Definitely.

Mm-hmm.

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It's 'cause I was playing good defense, it's 'cause I was getting deflections, it's 'cause I was playing like I had a long wingspan.

So just because measurements come out and I'm not as big as you thought I was, at the end of the day, I'm still doing what I can on the court.

So w- whatever I can do on the court, you know, just trying to lock in and I think obviously for me, I have, my, my talent is really athleticism.

So a lot of times where I lack in length, lack in size, I can use my IQ and athleticism to get to, get to spots like that, you know? Kind of knowing what the offense is gonna do, get deflections, and then reading the, reading the person I'm guarding.

So I mean, using a lot of things, 'cause it comes down to a lot of things.

Some people have more God-given talents.

Like, do you think that a lot of guards, especially a, like, high usage guards, like, they do overdo it at times? Not calling out other people, but.

Talk to us a little bit about that process, how rigorous it was for you to kind of adjust to that and to kind of get your body right for the season that you had.

Yeah, I think high school prepared me a lot for that.

I think just the running we did, it was just so continuous, you know, every day, you know, so you can't there's no days off.

The worst days were versa climbers.

Like if you if someone's got on versa climber, they done they had to go through one of the workouts we've done on those because it's crazy.

You can't even explain it really how it is.

It's a full body workout, but it's weird.

What's one aspect of your skill set that you feel like gets slept on a little bit?