THE TWILIGHT ZONE
Q From the Blaze you moved to Adelaide and your team the 36ers made the NBL Grand Final in the 2013-2014 season but lost to the Perth Wildcats. Was it hard to miss out on that elusive NBL championship during your career?
A Brutal. It kills me. Everything you put in is for the greater good of the team. I don’t get jealous when people win a championship because they deserve it. I had some great runs at it. I could tell you story after story where a big injury or something happened at the wrong time of the year. I genuinely feel there were probably three moments in my career where we could have won it. I’m satisfied because it wasn’t from a lack of trying but there is still a little burn there that I never got the chance to do that.
Q When you retired from the Brisbane Bullets in early 2018, you retired on your own terms. What does that mean to you?
A I think the time was right. I was still playing well but I’d been through pretty horrific knee surgery. I probably should have been ruled out through surgery if they did it properly but I didn’t want that so I worked hard to get back I got back to playing well and finished on court which was amazing. That would have been the worst, finishing on the bench. It’s such a hard moment to know when to retire. That’s what athletes struggle with, when do you actually pull the pin. I knew I had something to go to in teaching and I knew I got everything I could out of my body so I was comfortable to let go of the game.