Talk about the challenge Nicola presents on the floor and kind of talk about the challenges it presents guarding him. It was so much fun playing against him, even at that stage in my career, because that was my only job was to lock in on defense on him. I saw when you gave him a lot of space, he's able to attack, get comfortable, go either way, up and unders, get up to his pull-ups, anything.

I'm like, nah, I can't let him do that. So as soon as I see the coach look down to the end of the bench and say, let's go, I'm looking down at the end of the bench too. And I'm like, oh, you going in? Let's go. I'm ready. And that's the whole, my whole mindset is I'm going to mimic him.

I'm mirroring him. And that took a lot of mental energy because he's a tough player. That's all I was thinking about my whole time in the bubble. Like we beat them, I'm getting another contract.