Hornets vs Nuggets: Nick Smith Jr. Postgame Media Availability

Hornets vs Nuggets: Nick Smith Jr. Postgame Media Availability

Well I missed a few early um I just wanted to keep my rhythm and U just keep taking the open ones and uh you know um just just having movement on offense you know that’s my biggest thing um and uh you know my teammates found me and you

Know I was able to knock down some shots spoke with Terry earlier in the season and he said that you try to mimic some of his game and your game so what specifically you know from ter you trying to of emate um well just as pace of the game

Um just how he plays the NBA game you know um because uh college to NBA is a um you know it’s a big difference on on just pace and just knowing you know where to be um you know what to do and just how to do it on in certain

Situations and uh just stuff like that just the way how he carried himself um on the court and off the court yeah Nick um obviously you know electric fourth quarter you know throughout that performance today um but you taking a look at your kind of career from a bigger picture you know obviously

In high school very well known you went to Arkansas obviously youal dealt with injuries were still really good when you were on the floor how’s it kind of been you know now with the Hornets you you know sometimes in greensb sometimes here but you know obviously just constantly

Doing whatever you have to do for to win how much just been for you um it’s been a blessing um I have I had have a chance to you know learn a lot from you know um people that have been doing doing it for a long time you know Steve Coach

Cliff he’s been doing it for a long time before I probably was even born um so just to have knowledge and um have a coaching staff that you know continuously that want me to improve every day and just want me to work um is definitely something that um you know um

We don’t really have like you know where I’m from so um just to have that and just somebody that actually knows the game consistently and actually put forward and like just you know information and just details you know um that’s definitely something you know I try to take in like every

Day in your previous games and career before you got to the NBA when you had a hot shooting night what did you do to kind of keep yourself in that Rhythm and and stay ready to go you know for the for your next appearance on the floor me

Is there something you can draw on uh to try to keep this momentum rolling knowing that you’re also going to be off for a few days before you play again yeah just staying in the gym um even on off days just coming in here getting shots up um before practice getting

Shots up after practice getting shots up so you know basically just staying in the Rhythm even when I’m not playing just you know working out you know consistently um making sure the guys upstairs you know that’s doing you know the uh training stuff making sure you know everything stays sharp and um you

Know just waiting for my name to be called straight how you stay that make we get the best shat uh well I really was worried about that I was just really just trying to get the win um you know we was we was down big um in a third you know we

Didn’t really have a third quarter I believe we scor like two points in like 10 minutes or something like that so um I just wanted to you know um come in you know me and Cody came in and he told us that we need energy on the floor so you

Know I just wanted to provide that you one of those shots CLA you have a good up I guess a little past half court do you try and bring that intens side yeah I mean even when it have to starts on defense offense it don’t matter um you know I just been

Playing I’ve been playing this way for 19 years and um you know I just try to you know um bring energy bring energy and um you know just try to being tuned in the game and knowing what we doing and um just trying to get the win

Obviously we didn’t get it tonight but you know just just building on this and just you know um knowing what we have to do just to you know get over that hump yeah when we talked to you before the season at media day when we talked to you

Before the season at media day it was a lot of G Le questions now in the fourth quarter 19 17 that TI the most in the fourth quarter for rookies this season do you feel like the car out a role in this rotation even when full Squad uh I

Have no idea um my job as a professional is just to you know go out there my name is called and um yeah if they send me to the G League I’m going go down there play in the gague Le when they see me up

Play up so you know just learning it’s a learning year I’m young and I got a lot of stuff to you know do in this league I feel like and I got a lot of stuff to know and you know that’s just a it’s a everyday process it’s not something that

You know you just get you know out of 20 some games you know you just got to keep keep going and U once you know once I once they feel like it’s time for me to you know U release that leash yeah y going to see a different yeah for sure

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