(CRAFT)[I NEVER SHIED AWAY FROM CONTACT.]

I definitely knew I was stronger than Reggie Miller. I don’t know if it was a mental thing, but I was more of a bully than him.

I would get to the basket, and try to attack it as much as I could. When you go to the basket like that, you’re not using your arms as much as you are your body. You use that to create separation. A lot of times, with a lot of guys, the defensive player becomes the attacker and the offensive player capitulates to that. I never approached it that way. When I went to the basket, I was attacking and I wasn’t the one at risk of getting hurt: they were. Whether you’re Reggie or Shaq, I’m going to the basket hard and making you think twice about whether you want to contest it.