A Quote by Matt Barnes
I was a good shooter in college, but it's a different level here in the NBA and I'm working on getting better.
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Coming out of high school, I think it was good for me instead of going to college because college and the NBA are two different things. You can dominate on the college level, but the NBA is a whole different story. The dudes that do the best are the ones who work hard.
College is so different from the NBA. You have three guys coming at you and trapping all over the place, and NBA is different. There's more space.
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.
Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.
I've been a good 3-point shooter, but I've been a better midrange shooter my whole career, so it was definitely frustrating to try to figure out that balance.
Jeff Bzdelik is one of the smartest, most knowledgeable, hardest working coaches I have ever worked with. His teams in the NBA and college have achieved beyond their talent levels. Recruits to Wake Forest will play for a coach who was successful in the NBA for a long time and will teach them what they need to know to make it to the NBA.
Every time you play a different role with different actors in different locations, you're developing a greater level of comfort in the act of doing this, which is why you're getting better all the time.
I'm a really good shooter, three-point shooter. I'm good at defense. Dribbling, not so much.
Of course, in college, you're traveling, especially when you're with Duke basketball, but in the NBA, it's on a whole entire level.
Throughout college I was getting better and better at making recordings, producing songs, making different kinds of beats.
One thing I've learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you've always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.
I'm a pretty good free-throw shooter, so getting fouled is a good thing.
I always tried to be an all-around player. In college, I felt like I needed to add to my game to get to another level, to get to the NBA. The NBA has really turned to positionless basketball, so it was very important to me to have an all-around game so I could stand out in front of other guys.
My coaches and I always stress getting better and working on all aspects, so I'm ready to fight and take it to the next level.
I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.
I definitely enjoy working within different contexts, with different collaborators, and in different locations. I need to keep feeding myself as an artist by working with different people. I see continuing with that. I've also enjoyed getting to explore different kinds of music and instruments in the last couple of years.
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