The Fan After Dark was joined by Dallas Mavericks center Daniel Gafford last Friday night to talk about the win streak the Mavs are currently on, what's gone into their hot start to this season that has them up to 2nd in the West, how comfortable he's feeling in Dallas in his second season here, and more!
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00:00Daniel, what have you learned about your own personal game kind of going off of Fred's
00:20questions since you've been in Washington to now playing on this Mavericks team playing
00:23with Luca playing with clay playing with carry what have you learned have kind of opened
00:27up okay I can do this or maybe I can't do this um just learn the different type of patience
00:33you know it helps me it helped me slow the game down for myself a lot more just being
00:37put in certain positions and just being able to succeed with you know what I got out there
00:42on the floor whether it's rebounding posting up or just you know grabbing uh rebound and
00:48stuff around the rim and going back up with it you know I got him I got one main job and
00:52that's pretty much just being the trash man being the energy guy so I kind of locked into
00:56that and just found ways to do that in the elite level and then I was there for your
01:01first press conference when you were brought to the team and that was kind of one of the
01:04things that you mentioned being the trash man doing all the dirty work for the team
01:07maybe the stuff that maybe everyone else doesn't desire to do where do you think kind of that
01:12mindset came from and if you could just explain to the fans kind of where you got that mantra
01:16from um really it's just you know from where I come from is pretty much just work over
01:25everything having a hard work ethic is some one of the main things that kind of just pushed
01:30me over the edge you know I've seen my mom do it a lot I've seen my dad do it a lot just
01:34to make the sacrifices and stuff that they did to kind of help us and just put us in
01:39position to where we can just be successful when it came to whenever we became adults
01:43and I just kind of took that and took it to the basketball side it just helped push me
01:46to where I am today.