When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm the kind of guy who comes home and checks scores for everything. I'm a sports fan in general, so I pretty much keep up with who's ahead in a division and everything that's going on.
When it's deep into the season and you're not playing well, it's frustrating. This is when it's time to revisit some basics.
It's a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.
For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.
It's just the game itself that drives me. I just want to be able to compete at a high level.
I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
It's just about taking each game as it comes and hopefully being up there at the end of the season.
Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season's end is approaching, and we're all pretty physically tired.
When the game is over it is really just beginning.