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KA: Let me ask you something about that. Sometimes, playing with certain players, it affects your game. I didn’t like playing with certain players. Being a point guard, sometimes—maybe it's a 2-guard or a 3 or a 4-man—someone else can hinder your game. And I thought Josh Smith affected your game a little bit. What do you think?

BJ: Well the thing about it was every time I would come off the pick-and-roll, the team would trap me, because the scouting report was to get the ball out of my hands. It was tough at times because I need the ball to make plays and things like that. It was just at a time when our record was bad, so everybody was feeling down. Everybody was like, This is not gonna work, we need to do something else. It was everybody. We were all just like, Yo, something’s gotta change, because it’s either me or it’s Coach or it’s—everybody was pointing a finger instead of trying to come together. I feel like once we made that move, I felt like it was in me to just go now. Just go. I feel like once the Josh Smith situation happened [the team waived him in December—Ed.], it gave everybody else another opportunity. We were able to really do what we wanted to do. Yo, I have a question: Who was the best player you played against?

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