![]() “Chris could tell how mature he was, and how much he wanted the information,” Sullivan says. He told Mitchell the importance of getting to his spot and quickly pulled up a clip of Kobe Bryant, who inspired Paul’s elbow pull-up jumper. As a point guard, Paul told him, you have to know your personnel. Paul pulled out his laptop and started poring through film, going back to his days with Tyson Chandler and DeAndre Jordan and how he’s had each big man he’s played with change the angle of the screen. Every time Sullivan’s gone out to eat with Mitchell since, he says Mitchell calls one of the nutritionists at Proactive, where’s he’s been training, and asks for suggestions on what he should order. He’d decided after the first time he didn’t like salmon, but he liked the way Paul’s chef made it, and he’s since changed his own diet, ditching fried food and burgers for leaner meats and vegetables. They ate salmon, only the second time Mitchell had ever eaten it. The night went on like this with Paul gifting nuggets throughout, about how he wished he would have taken care of his body and watched his diet - he’s now a vegan - earlier in his career. Mitchell sat amazed as Paul called out a play before it happened, narrating what was to come and correctly predicting every part of it. ![]() ![]() A Grizzlies game played in the background. Paul wants to know the tendencies of every player in the league. He told Mitchell that he watches every NBA game on NBA TV nightly, and if he misses one, he watches it the next day. Paul started to make sure to throw passes with his left hand going left. He gave Mitchell some of his favorite tricks that he mastered from his addiction to film study, how he learned to get more steals when a ball handler was going left because most guards throw the pocket pass with their right hand. Paul gave Mitchell tips on ball-screen execution - both on offense and defense.
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