[I know that I can be a great player, but when I was young, I didn't know how to achieve that.
The only thing I knew was to work hard; hard work was the only thing I could control. So during training, I ran as fast as I could, persisting even when I was very tired.
But effort alone was far from enough on the offense; during my rookie years, there was a period when my shooting was terrible, and it took me some time to learn how to shoot and develop some skills to score points.
I could do many things like fast breaks, breakthroughs, opportunistic plays, offensive rebounds, but my fundamentals were too poor, which prevented me from contributing consistently; I felt frustrated.
The biggest change I felt upon entering the NBA was the pace of the game; everything here was fast, very fast.
Whether on the court or off, you had to make quick decisions, and for a time, I didn't know what I was doing.
