Summer Catchup: Randy Foye

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">ome NBA players take it easy during the offseason. After speaking to Randy Foye at the Wolves' practice facility on Tuesday, we found out that he's certainly not one of them.

MT: Take us through your past few weeks since earning First Team honors at the Las Vegas Summer League:
Foye: I've just been working out. I was working out and preparing to play with KG before the trade, but afterwards I felt like I had to tone it up even more. I felt I had to go two times a day, or lift every day, or work out every day or go back and shoot and get my touch. I came back in and worked out (Tuesday), and I'm still in form. The coaches are shocked, because I think they expect the young guys to just go home and rest, but I took advantage of my free time by putting a whole lot of work in.

MT: You've played with or against several of the players involved in the trade with Boston. Talk about the new mix of players here in Minnesota, and the chance you now have to build something together.
Foye: I think it's great to play with some young guys of the caliber of these guys from Boston. I've played against Al Jefferson, Sebastian Telfair, Gerald Green and Ryan Gomes. We just have to come together as one. Whatever happened in the past happened, and you have to look forward. Every team in the league has gone through something like this at one point in time, but you have to build from it. That's what we're going to do.

MT: For those of us that have seen you play and spoken to you, we know that you embrace the leadership role ... You want to be the leader.
Foye: Definitely. I want to be the leader on the team. I want the other players to come to me. I want to be the vocal player on the team on and off the court. I feel as though that is something that helped me succeed in college. And when I played my best last year, that is something that made me succeed too.

MT: We saw that in Vegas; Corey Brewer was vocal about looking to you for leadership.
Foye: I've played against Corey before, and he knows that I'm quiet and humble, but I'm an assassin. I'm not the rowdy type that needs to tell everyone what I'm doing. I'm not the type to dunk and look in the crowd; if I dunk, I'll look at my teammates and say, "Good pass." I'm not playing for the crowd, I'm playing for my teammates. Hopefully the younger guys around me see how I act in that leadership role and can do the same thing.

MT: Tell us more about what you've been working on this summer:
Foye: It was hard work, just taking the time. It's about going to the gym doing stuff you aren't comfortable doing to help make you succeed in the game. In a game everything isn't always perfect, you aren't always going to shoot the ball because you're open. That's what I worked on this summer: doing things I wasn't as good at to make my overall game better at the end of the day.

MT: Among the reasons it was a successful Summer League for you was your ability to recognize when to score, and when to pass.
Foye: For sure. I'm a team player. Craig (Smith) had a great first game, and I had seven points in that game. It's not about scoring points all the time, it's about winning. Jason Kidd is showing that right now with Team USA. I tried to show that in Las Vegas; as long as we win, it doesn't matter. The next three games, I played great. I was on, so Craig and I played a two-man game. Then in game five, Rashad (McCants) got hot, and you have to keep feeding the hot hand. If you make them double him, it makes it that much easier for everyone else to get open looks.</div>

Source: Timberwolves.com