Also it's nice to see oyu guys winning the close ones. ET Hi, Norie, and thanks for getting touch. There were some major translations from this summer to this season. And I think most of those transformations were intangible things I was able to bring back to this team, stuff like mental toughness and work ethic. We've always had a great work ethic here, but practicing twice a day and playing eight games in the course of 12 days at the Olympics was tough.
International basketball is very physical.
You have to be able to persevere through the adversitites that arise, and they pop up out of nowhere. So that mental edge I brought back to the team really improved my leadership qualities. And at this point of the season, I'm very comfortable leading this team, and so much of what I'm doing was derived from my experiences at the international level. Physically, just playing the physical basketball we played prepared me in such a powerful way for this season. For example, finishing a layup in transition and drawing a foul at the same time, and being able to withstand the foul and finish the basket, were things I was able to learn this summer and incorporate into my game in a much better way.