SHOOTAROUND SOUND: MOE WAGNER & JALEN SUGGS

SHOOTAROUND SOUND: MOE WAGNER & JALEN SUGGS

Well you’ve been here before played for this team talk a little bit about your experience with DC and how it helped you grow to be the player you are starting to become now I mean first of all DC is an awesome City it’s always cool to come back

Um yeah I mean it’s kind of part of being a pro you know coming back to these uh these Arenas that you’ve played in obviously a lot has changed since then so a lot of new Personnel here now new staff so it’s not quite the same anymore but obviously had a great two

Years here and very grateful for the experience it did you grow individually yourself or did you kind of see kind of like how you the player you kind of wanted to be from these experiences uh yeah of course you you learn the more people you work with uh

The more kind of experience you make the more knowledge you gain um the more information you gain about yourself the more situations you are in you can learn about yourself as a player what works well what doesn’t work well um and obviously very grateful for that process

Um looking at this team’s resiliency to be able to come back from just a little bit of a deficit from Indiana but the last time you guys played it was 16o deficit just talk about the growth and the strength of this team being able to

Come from behind in games yeah I mean I guess it’s just like the focus on the process not uh focus on the result to much and kind of locking in on what we want to do offensively and defensively and letting the game come to us I think

It’s a part of the process of growing as a team being a young team and um we getting better at that and obviously wanted that to translate to wins as well so um happy that we got that last win Before Christmas what did you guys learn from

The last two games at home that you’ll take away in this game oh obviously it helps having seen a team before um they played a lot of Zone against us they try and they play with a certain level of Randomness um which is hard to prepare

For so I think we got to be very disciplined in our coverages and and trying what we do to do want to do offensively and I think we’ll be fine J can you just well first how are you doing how are you feeling and how does

It feel to kind of be back out here with this team and really getting active uh it feels good you know I feel well uh you know got time to take care of my body um and getting back out here it’s good times uh you know it’s good uh you

Know fun to be on the court of guys get up and down get some running and excited for tonight you guys have had pretty good games against DC you get to play against your teammate again just what was it like the first two times that you guys took away that you’ll bring into

This game uh just continuing to be solid uh you know they’re a tough team to scout forward and defend cuz a lot of random action you know a lot a high level shot maker so uh just continue to be us on defense you know help each

Other out and uh you know hopefully lead to good things talk about this team’s resiliency from to come back from deficits we saw with Indiana you guys came back from a little bit of a deficit last time you guys played here it was a 16-point deficit talk about the

Resiliency of the growth of this team to not let that get the best of them to be able to come out and fight um yeah we you know we’ve seen it for a couple years now you know since I’ve been here you know playing from behind and you

Know trying to find ways to get back in games and and win games uh at the end so you know how to mix that together you know with the growth that we made and uh you know when we do get behind you know understand that it’s a game of runs and

All it takes is a couple minutes couple shots going in and we’re back in back in the game so I know you never want to miss games but having missed some time the first two years of your career does it help you kind of get through the

Moments where you might miss a game or two just knowing what it’s like oh yeah definitely um I mean just understanding that it’s a long season um you know I missed a lot but um you know trying to be smart and taking care of my body and

Things like that and it makes it a bit easier uh you know just while I’m out continuing to doing uh you know give mental reps uh you know stay locked in with the team you know not try to miss too much of a beat uh you know and stay

In rhythm with the guys uh has definitely helped what was it like playing with Cory kissper in college ah it was dope uh Cory was such a good guy um a great leader uh you know taught me how to be a pro early on and I

Appreciate him uh for that a ton and uh yeah knockdown shooter uh so you know we got to run him off the line tonight but it’ll be good to see him what’s it like when you are playing against guys you kind of know their game but now you’re

On the other side uh it’s fun uh I think it brings a competitive competitive nature outout and also just you know to have laughs jokes you know just see how far we’ve come you know playing you know on professional level uh you know making money for our family and enjoying the

Game we love uh is a dope thing so kind of just sharing that

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