Howie

You walk into an NBA locker room for the first time.

Give me an idea of the environment, how you're feeling about it.

This is serious stuff now.

So we get to debuts again.

What have I written here?

29th of July, drafted on the 8th of August, Giddey signed a contract.

20th of October, 2021, your NBA debut versus the Utah Jazz.

Drives, hangs, and hits.

I'm not a massive basketball aficionado, but when I watch it, it's like, holy heck, these men are so big and so athletic.

So you step onto that court for the first time.

You play 82 games a season.

But on debut, mate, how is it?

So you've gone to the NBL.

Obviously, there's an enormous difference in talent, but how big a jump are we talking here?

It took me a while to get used to it.

Shortish, sharp responses because we're under time duress.

But you talked about the grind.

So 82 games to me, crisscrossing the country, that blows my mind.

Like we talk about here in the footy, I know Collingwood's got to come off a five-day break, which you're just laughing at.

So some specific areas.