Justin Champagnie: I credit a lot of my readiness to Fred VanVleet and Pascal Siakam

Washington Wizards forward Justin Champagnie says that former Toronto Raptors teammates Fred VanVleet and Pascal Siakam helped him develop a mentality of always being ready to go no matter the situation.

(via Washington Wizards):

“I will credit that a lot to my vets in Toronto, Fred [VanVleet] and Pascal [Siakam]. A lot of times as a rookie, I didn’t really get to play too much. And when I did play, for like five minutes or so. So they always used to preach to me like, ‘You gotta be ready to come in the game, knock down a shot, play defense, go rebound, do your thing off the bat. Nobody’s gonna wait for you to get started. And if you can’t get started fast enough, you’re coming back out.’ So just try to keep my mental in a place where I know that when I get out there, no matter what’s going on, if I sat for two, three, four quarters… don’t really matter. I’m just ready to go.”

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