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When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.

See the ball; hit the ball.

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.

I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.

Without the ball, you can't win.

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

I think guys that play basketball really understand how to go up and get a ball. Because in a rebound situation, you've got to go up and fight for a ball. Just boxing out. There are a lot of things that transfer.

You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.