Heeyyyyy World!!!! What ya’ll up to? We got another win last night, but now it’s back out on the road again. We were home for one game and now we’re off to the West Coast for like nine days to play four games. It’s all good though because we will get some time in Oakland/San Francisco and L.A., two of my favorite spots. But it’s a business trip, so we’re keeping that focus tight.
I couldn’t be happier with how we’re playing right now. We had some rough patches early in the season, but I wasn’t really worried at all. We had a lot of new dudes on the roster with VC, Ryan Anderson, B-Bass and Matt Barnes, so I thought it might take us some time to get the rotations down on defense.
But I really see us coming together now. We played really well out on the road last week, and I think we’ll do that again next week because we love being out on the road together. To us, being on the road is like being at home. We know to win in the playoffs you have to be able to win on the road.
I just get the feeling now that this team really wants to be great. Every day that we’re in the gym we’re going hard and doing what we can to get better. This team wants nothing but to be great. We’re improving in a lot of different areas and if we keep that up I think we have a chance to be really good again.
My main job as a captain was to make sure that we get better every day as a team. And I just feel like now that we’re doing that. We just want to make sure we peak at the right time. We’re taking all the right steps in the right direction to become a great team. But like I tell everybody, everything we do starts on the defensive end of the floor. The last eight games have been very good defensively and we’ve done a good job of taking care of every detail.
We know that we have that target on our back and everybody is trying to take us down. That’s why coming into games and coming into practices, we just have to go out there and do our jobs and be the best that we can. Every day we get in the gym we go hard and do what we can to get better.
That’s just something that I love about my team – that hunger to get better every day. And so far it’s working for us. I guess we have the most wins in the league at 15 and we want to stay on top for the rest of the season. We want to win our division, win our conference and get back to the Finals. And this time it’s all about bringing that gold ball home. That’s our one and only mission.
I’ll hit you guys back from the West Coast this weekend. Holla back at yo’ boy!!!
—D-12
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I just heard that the all-star ballots came out today. VC, ‘Shard, Jameer and me are on there this year for the Magic. I hope that you guys can help me get back to the all-star game again. I’ve been there three times already and I want to be in that game in Texas this year where the Cowboys play. That stadium looks incredible. I can’t believe they are gonna put a B-ball game in there.
