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You get a lot of accommodations for being on scholarship, but there is too much money floating around in the NCAA to not be giving it to the people earning it.
Joe Harris / Basketball Player
Money
Earning
Floating
Giving
Ncaa
Scholarship
Too Much
Lot
Much
Being
Around
Too
Too Much Money
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If you stay around in the NBA long enough, you're going to bounce around, your teammates are going to bounce around, but those friendships, they remain constant.
Joe Harris / Basketball Player
Bounce
Nba
Enough Your Long
Teammates
Friendships
Long Your Enough
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I grew up in the Northwest, so I was always a really big Sonics fan. I loved Gary Payton, Shawn Kemp, a lot of those players who were really good through the '90s.
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Gary
Northwest
Shawn
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I loved going to a place like Virginia, making a connection and meeting the people that are outside of the whole basketball realm, and earning my degree from there.
Joe Harris / Basketball Player
Earning
Virginia
Realm
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Obviously, you hope to make shots. But you can't put too much pressure on yourself to make it, because whether or not they go in, you're creating space everybody else.
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Everybody Else
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You never want to see anybody get hurt... but if you've ever played basketball before you've probably sprained your ankle so that stuff happens. It's part of the game.
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Ankle
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You don't really coach high school basketball because it's a good paycheck. You do it because you love it, care about the kids and you're just passionate about the game.
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Love Good Game
Paycheck
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Cleveland, although I didn't play a lot I really learned a ton in my year and a half of being there. I was really fortunate to be around some of the game's best players.
Joe Harris / Basketball Player
Being There
Cleveland
Ton
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If I ever got into trouble with my sisters or was slacking off, it was always my punishment that I couldn't go to a practice or a game. That was the worst thing in the world.
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Punishment
Sisters
Worst Thing
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I grew up in kind of a resort community. I lived on a big lake. It was really cool growing up there. But a lot of people come there in the summertime, especially Seahawks guys.
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Summertime
Lake
Resort
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I played football growing up so I used to lift quite a bit when I was in high school. And then I got to Virginia I was lucky, good strength and conditioning program and coach there.
Joe Harris / Basketball Player
Conditioning
Virginia
Lift
Quite A Bit
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I think I've gotten more comfortable and more confident on the defensive end. I've just been able to anticipate things a little bit better instead of reacting to how guys play offensively.
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Anticipate
Reacting
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Kyrie is a good guy. Spent a lot of time with him over the years because we were the same class in high school and ACC when he was at Duke. Then I was with him my rookie year in Cleveland.
Joe Harris / Basketball Player
Class
Good Guy
High School
Time Good School
Duke
Rookie
Spent
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The shots, all that stuff, kind of comes and goes. You're not going to be hitting every single game. You wish that you could. But there's a lot of other areas to impact the game where I focus more on.
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Hitting
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There's only so much you can do as far as individual skill work and conditioning on a bike. But you can't simulate playing in an actual game. And it can't satisfy the competitive itch you feel as a player.
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Bike
Conditioning
Simulate
Itch
Satisfy
Skill
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Every step of way, going from a small town to Charlottesville and playing in the ACC - that whole experience is a difficult adjustment. In all of that, you really grow as a person and as a basketball player.
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Adjustment
Basketball Player
Every Step
Small Town
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It was like a brother-sister type relationship with all of my cousins. Growing up we were always hanging out together. We all kind of looked after each other like brothers and sisters when we went to school and stuff.
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Brothers And Sisters
Sisters
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The NBA is a difficult thing because the head coaches, they definitely have one of the more difficult jobs and one of the jobs with, I guess, little amount of security as possible. There's so much turnover all the time.
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Coaches
Nba
Turnover
Difficult Thing
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Some games you're going to be able to get rolling, you're going to get in a good rhythm, you're going to be able to get open looks. Other games, sometimes the rhythm's not there and you've got to get off it a little bit.
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Rhythm
Rolling
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If you look at all the top shooters in the NBA, guys that might be specialists like how I see myself, they're always 40 percent and above. So, that's a personal goal for me to get into that elite three-point shooting percentage.
Joe Harris / Basketball Player
Nba
Specialists
Myself Always Me
Elite
Myself Look Me
Percentage
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Yeah, I had a good relationship with Coach Blatt. I enjoyed playing for him. But the NBA is, first and foremost, a business, and as much as you may have liked the situation you were at, sometimes it just doesn't work out your way.
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Good Relationship
Nba
Work Good Business
Foremost
Work Business Good
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I think you go across this league and you talk to every coach and every player, and dealing with a young, up-and-coming team is much different than coaching superstar players, and everybody kind of realizes that it's a much different dynamic.
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League
Player
Superstar
Across
Coach
Dealing
Dynamic
Up-And-Coming
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I keep in touch with all the guys that I was training with in Chicago during the pre-draft process; Nik Stauskas, Mitch McGary, Adrien Payne, and Dougie McDermott. We all got pretty close training together and we just keep tabs every now and then.
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Now And Then
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I've been No. 12 my entire career. My cousin Nikki Haerling was a good basketball player, she wore No. 12 in high school and college, and my dad, he was No. 12 as well. I actually just started wearing it when I got to high school my freshman year.
Joe Harris / Basketball Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
Cousin
Freshman
Freshman Year
High School
Entire
Entire Career
Wearing
High School And College
Wore
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I come from a town in Washington state that might not be too familiar to Clevelanders called Chelan. It's really beautiful. It's about two-and-a-half hours east of Seattle and two-and-a-half hours west of Spokane. It's right in the middle of the state.
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Familiar
Seattle
Washington State
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A lot of Washington state is beautiful. You have just tons of mountains, beautiful bodies of water, you have a lot of rolling hills in eastern Washington. I'm biased, obviously, but there's not a lot of places in the world that are like where I grew up.
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Biased
Eastern
Hills
Rolling
Washington State
Bodies
Mountains
Tons
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Coach Blatt is very, very knowledgeable about the game. And it just goes to show you that no matter where you're at, he knows as much about basketball as anyone. You learn a lot from him. And he's a very charming guy, very personable. He's pretty funny, too.
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Basketball
Charming
Coach
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Obviously playing on a team like the Cavs in 2014, they were championship contenders, not allowing a ton of young guys to come in and play through mistakes. If you weren't helping the team have success you weren't really afforded a lot of different opportunities.
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Allowing
Championship
Young Guys
Afforded
Ton
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When you look across the board at the count of NBA quality players that are on various international teams in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, there are good players all over the world now. It's just not in the NBA where America has the most talent.
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Asia
Latin
Latin America
Middle East
Nba
Good World Look
Count
Good Look World
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When you're going through a game and you miss your first couple, you definitely put a little bit of added pressure on yourself. And there is that sense of frustration. You got to block it out and realize that the whole goal of what I'm trying to do is just get open shots.
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Block
Frustration
Yourself Your Game
Added
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Coming into my rookie year, I could kind of eat whatever I wanted - you're really not too concerned about it. But you don't realize that a pound here and there is really not a good thing. It's just basic physics: it's harder to move faster and jump higher when you weigh more.
Joe Harris / Basketball Player
Concerned
Faster
Harder
Higher
Physics
Basic
Good Thing
Jump
Pound
Rookie
Weigh
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There's a tendency, guys get really excited and go through practice, and they want to stay for an extra hour after and do these workouts. What you should be doing is getting in the cold tub or getting your corrective exercises in with your strength coach, little things like that which can help you in the long run.
Joe Harris / Basketball Player
Little Things
Corrective
Exercises
Extra
Long Run
Tendency
Tub
Workouts
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Everybody's always asking me: 'What's it like playing with LeBron?' It's really hard to describe. I'm pretty fortunate that I got him my first year. He's an awesome guy, a great leader. You're witnessing such greatness all the time and you try not to take it for granted because you see it so often, in practice or wherever.
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Granted
Greatness
Time Great Always
Time Great Me
Describe
Witnessing
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Kyrie, he's got a big personality. He's one of these guys that's misunderstood. The way that he's construed in the media is probably going to paint him in a light that is not necessarily true. I'd say you could ask a lot of people that played with him and they'd all say that he's a great teammate and a good guy to be around.
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Paint
Teammate
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My hometown, first and foremost, it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. A beautiful lake town. It's one of those communities where, winter rolls around, it's exactly the same as any other small town in America. Sort of a lower socio-economic area. There isn't anything high-end necessarily anywhere around there.
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Beautiful Places
Hometown
Small Town
Winter
Exactly The Same
Foremost
High-End
Lake
Most Beautiful
Rolls
Socio-Economic
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Over the course of the game you're probably going to have 10 turnovers or so just because you're playing hard, you're competing, that's the way the game goes. But it's the other 10 that you have to limit. You can't have the careless ones, the ones where guys are cutting backdoor and you throw it, or you try the hail mary pass.
Joe Harris / Basketball Player
Careless
Competing
Cutting
Hail
Mary
Limit
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I think going to Virginia and playing in that program, you definitely take a lot of ownership in the fact of possessions and understanding the value of each possession. And that goes on both ends. Trying to be as efficient as possible on the offensive end, and not turn the ball over. But then defensively, making everything tough.
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Efficient
Offensive
Ownership
Possession
Virginia
Defensively
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After the occupation of Paris, Hitler visited Paris, which of course was a great jewel for him, and he wanted to go up on the Eiffel Tower and gaze down upon the city of Paris, which he'd conquered. For some reason the elevators mysteriously stopped working that day. Some people say it might have had to do with the French resistance. So he couldn't go up.
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Cities
Jewels
Paris
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I strive to view my students as unique human beings all of whom come to my classroom with a personal history, cultural perceptions and traditions, goals and aspirations as well as fears and insecurities. By employing the principles of Personalization, I am able to connect with my students in a genuine way in order to build trust, respect and rapport in the classroom.
Joe Harris / Basketball Player
Order
Unique
Views
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