Homegrown has helped and encouraged me immensely to become not just a better player but a better person. The things I take away from training reflect on my development as a player and a person, and I have gotten better understanding of the game and better confidence. Homegrown has been the next step for me into creating new opportunities so I can compete further and become a better basketball player, as well as getting the experience of playing abroad and learning more about the game of basketball.

I have to credit some of my coaches over the years for mentoring me and setting me up for success, but some of the best advice was a little graph that was shown to me by my Head Coach from 2022, where it said that it takes a second to shoot the ball, and if a guy goes 0/9 and plays 40 minutes, the player is more likely to focus on the 9 seconds of him missing shots, and not the other 39 minutes and 51 seconds where he played great basketball elsewhere. The moral was to tell me that it was not just about the shots and the points, but because of other ways you can contribute to the team in the entire length of a basketball game.