Ty Jerome
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Yeah, it's kind of like you... I've always had the vision of who I want to be in this league. And, you know, deal with some injuries, some trades, all these different things pop up and it kind of derails your vision. And holding that and being able to keep in that belief in yourself until you finally get a consistent opportunity. And to see it come to light has been pretty cool. Obviously...
There's a million things that I individually still want to accomplish, and as a team, we still want to accomplish. Nobody's on a victory lap yet, but it's definitely pretty cool to have that consistent night-to-night role that I've always strived to have.
Yeah, I knew I was going to Phoenix when my name was called. I knew it was Phoenix.
Because they traded for the pick before the pick actually occurred.
I thought it was going to be a great transition, honestly. Um, they signed Ricky Rubio. So I was like, all right, I'll back him up and get used to it. And then, uh, I got, I got hurt the day before the first game played preseason day before the first game, I rolled my ankle pretty bad, like high ankle sprain and I'm out until like mid December.
And as a rookie, you try and get back and play catch up. This wasn't easy. Um, And dealing with all that and Monty Williams is a real old school coach. We didn't exactly see eye to eye and that didn't help me. So that rookie year was a roller coaster for sure.
No, not really. I was just... It happened so quick, though. You go to OKC, which is a great organization. And as you see now, they put it all together. But we were in the tanking phase. So that's another wake-up call to what the NBA business is like. Obviously, they had their vision. It worked out. And even through the tanking, it was still a great organization.
But it's still like, we're showing up to lose all these games on purpose. It's just another wake-up call to what the business is like in the NBA.
Yeah. I think you always have that doubt in the back of your mind. I mean, I think as humans, we're always going to have it right. You could probably relate in your own journey. Like everyone can relate or maybe you can't, maybe you were just always elite, but I think everyone can relate in their journey at some point of that doubt creeping in. And, um,
You just keep going and keep figuring out and keep waiting until hopefully I get this opportunity here. And someone told me, I never figured this, is like when you seize opportunity, it multiplies. And the more you take advantage of one opportunity, it becomes two. And your leash grows longer and your leash grows longer.
And I was finally waiting to just kind of get my foot in the door that I always knew what I'd be able to do. And I still feel that same way about how much I can improve.
Couldn't have said it better. I think there's a million guys in the NBA and there's a bunch of guys not in the NBA that if you said, hey, I'm going to give you 20 minutes every single night, here's the ball in your hands, they can go get you 13 points a game. The hard part about the NBA is figuring out how to stay resilient and stay confident until that happens.
I mean, like, can you get thrown in for a game and make your first shot? Like that's the mental hurdle of kind of establishing yourself as a player. And I don't think it ever ends. Right. Because you're always trying to get to a new level and to get to the next level. It's the same thing.
Like you probably look, people probably look now to, all right, if I was playing 30 minutes, I could do X, Y, and Z, but you can't really ask for a role increase until you master where you're at. And that's the mental hurdle of kind of any profession, but especially in sports.
Yeah, I think it's a few things, right? And a lot of guys I watch and I study, like I never really, I always try to watch like Jalen Brunson play and Luca play and Cade play because those are guys where when they touch the paint and I try to prop myself on this too, like you said, you don't know exactly what you're going to do yet.
And I feel like defenders get real antsy when you touch the paint. So as soon as you're in there, they're ready to jump or swipe or reach or foul. And then when you're off the ball and someone's in the paint, you're worried about, all right, do I help? What do I do? And so if you go fast, and I don't have the luxury of going fast, so it's really not by choice for me.
But if you go fast, you kind of run out of options, right? Because you're speeding to the basket. You might have one pass you can make. or you can go finish when I'm kind of going slower at my own pace. It's like, I really have every option. I can dribble all back out. If I want, I can stop. I can start and stop off to stop off one. You can stop and make a pass.
And like, I think Luke is the best at it in the world. His whole go slow and take one step, look around, take another step and he might lob it, throw it to the opposite corner, like stuff like that. I think it's just, it's, it starts with your pace.
Yeah, for sure. Is there a funny story?
it's a fight. You know, the best story is just when I get foul calls, people hate that. You know what I mean? Like if I get, if I have a game where I shoot like, you know, six plus eight plus free throws, other team is furious at how I'm getting thought. Cause it looks so, it looks so crazy. You know what I mean?
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