wow yeah i mean that's that's dedication right there that's just the love for the game and love for seeing the growth of kids and also yourself too as a trainer um and i want to know where all that passion sparked from of course it's from your playing days just loving the game of basketball but but yeah tell me more about that growing up in north providence and what the basketball scene looked like for you and the types of trainers that you had um that you looked up to now that you can kind of emulate um it's your training style

yeah so growing up in north providence man it was um You know, looking at it now, it's just so differently, especially youth basketball.

But for me, it was very competitive.

Always had great coaches.

Jerry Rubino being one of them, you know, playing travel basketball, all-stars, rec, playing in the park.

It was just something that, you know, I always looked forward to do.

Always played competitive.

in college basketball can you tell me that wake up moment for you when you realized that you wanted to take training to the next level after you were done playing