Quotes About Opportunity

That's what you work all season for, to get into the playoff games, and you don't want to blow it.

I think one of the hardest times was when I almost won a Web.com tour event in 2016 after my freshman year. I lost in a playoff to Ollie Schniederjans and J.J. Spaun. I mean, who knows what could've happened if I'd won?

The bench is really important in the NBA because if you have a good bench, then you can make that playoff push even harder.

When I first got drafted, I've really grown. Coming in, I was kind of nervous but honestly I've been really blessed going to two playoff series, one against Miami and the next year against Chicago and the Celtics. I've progressed easier.

The thing I've always liked about the playoffs is the finality of it and knowing there's so much importance on every play.

I think being able to make the playoffs alone is an outstanding accomplishment alone and something not a lot of people get to experience in their careers.

It's easy to go somewhere where everything already is set up and they've been to the playoffs four, five years in a row. I've been on those teams. Those are great experiences.

The first thought is always about making the playoffs. That's the tough part. And once you get there, only then you can allow yourself to start thinking how you are going to play in the playoffs against other teams. And a lot is left to chance then. There's an element of luck as well: sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you do not.

We know how hard it is to get to the playoffs in general, and then to get to the NFC Championship Game. You just never know if you'll have the opportunity again, so you really want to make the most of it.

I'm not a guy that believes you've got to have a lot of experience to have success in the playoffs.

Any chance a rookie gets to go play in the playoffs, that should be a boost going into summer league. That should be a boost for the rest of your career. That's something that a lot of rookies can't say they did.

Every moment is big in the playoffs.

Everyone starts the playoffs with the same record. It doesn't matter who won 70 games or whatever.

After going through the playoffs, you definitely get a sense for how important it is to go through it at least once before you win.

I would like to be in the playoffs. I would hope that there is some opportunity to go and play in the playoffs. Those are the best games, the most fun for sure, and you have a chance to win.

I just want to go deep in the playoffs and be put in that situation where I'm locked in and the game and the season is on the line.

In the regular season you always say, 'Take it one game at a time.' But the playoffs, they kind of make you do that.

Playing pretty big minutes in the playoffs and having career games in the playoffs is something you dream of as a kid but never really think will happen.

You look at it every year, how many teams are in and out of the playoffs, and how close the league is, it seems like every team is not too far away.

When I come off the bench, I have that intensity and that effort. That's something all of us guys are trying to bring, but especially the guys off the bench. Because we can play a role in any game, let alone the playoffs.

I mean, nobody wants to lose. And nobody wants to be playing at the end of the year when you don't have a chance to make the playoffs.

Whatever you do during the regular season doesn't matter once you get to the playoffs.

Once you get to the playoffs, anything can happen.

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.