Right here’s Denver Nuggets assistant coach JJ Barea describing the mindset/position he had on offense as a participant.
(by way of Undrafted To NBA Champ JJ Barea’s Wild Journey | Denver Nuggets Off The Court docket):
“Any person as soon as advised me, in my head was like, ‘Play the identical manner you performed in highschool otherwise you performed in school within the NBA whenever you get a chance. Whenever you get 1 minute, simply do the identical factor.’ So for me, I discovered early if I get within the sport and I simply convey the ball down and go it and go to the nook, I’m getting thrown out of the league within the subsequent couple months. Anyone [can do that]. So I used to be like, ‘I’m gonna get the ball and be tremendous aggressive.’
“I keep in mind Avery Johnson one time, I performed like 30 seconds in rubbish minutes and I wasn’t aggressive. And after the sport, he went at me: ‘You’re not aggressive! You’re not even wanting on the basket!’ I used to be like, ‘Don’t fear about it.’ Subsequent sport: two minutes, I’m capturing seven photographs, I’m driving to the paint each single time. And from then on, I used to be like, ‘I gotta be aggressive. Or not, I’m not gonna have the ability to do that as a result of my position is come off the bench and be tremendous aggressive, get to the paint.’ Get to the paint both to shoot or to go it, and that obtained me going.”
