Your focus should be on the learning aspect of things

“I didn’t know where went with that.

“My advice now would be, if you’re looking to go down that path; first and foremost, you just can’t get caught up in the end result.

“You really have to focus on now and what you can do to improve.

“If you’re talking about being a professional player but right now you’re not the fitness, strongest, fastest, best player on your team or club, then you’ve got a long way to go.

“Your focus should be on the learning aspect of things and getting better every single day.

“Position yourself by playing club basketball or school basketball at a high level then hopefully on to the national team.

“Glasgow Rocks are there. They’re always looking for new talent. They have their trials every summer.

“So that’s another way to try and get into professional basketball.”

I could have

• A P6 pupil at St Brigid’s Primary turned their question to Lawrence: What makes you keep going if you make mistakes?

He said: “It’s a big part of the game that I had to learn, personally.

“I was always really hard on myself and I used to think about during games.

“It really affected my performance and I wasn’t performing the way I should have been.

“So, I got myself into the way of thinking that; if I make a mistake, the next thing – I just try and do right and it seems to work for me.

“Even if you go on and make another mistake, if you always have in your head; right, I’ll do the next thing right, I’ll do the next thing right – then eventually, you will.

“You’ll do that right thing and you can keep it simple.

“Eventually, you can find your form again and your game starts to grow again from there.” it