Cory Joseph likes defense, winning

James Herbert is a friend of 48MoH; he contributes to Hardwood Paroxysm and is the producer of HoopSpeak Live in addition to his own site Outside the NBA. James was kind enough to send us a guest post Q&A he did with recent San Antonio Spurs draft pick Cory Joseph. James caught up with Joseph after the Canadian National Team’s practice at Ryerson University in Toronto. That’s in Canada. Experience the point guard swag that Joseph’s words display, despite being considered a bit of a reach at the end of the first round of the draft. That marks the last time you’ll ever read me use the word “swag” in a sentence. Take it away James…

James Herbert: I wanted to sort of rewind back to June 23rd of this year – you waited your entire life for the NBA Draft. Could you give me a sort of play-by-play of that day?

Cory Joseph: I was in Toronto with my family: my parents, my grandparents, my girlfriend, my brother, my sisters, my dad and everybody. So I was just there just watching the draft. I knew a couple teams liked me in the first round so I knew I had a very good chance of getting in the first round. So a couple teams, it was either me and a couple of guys for a couple of teams and it came to twenty-nine, San Antonio picked me. So, it was great. Like you said, ever since you’re young you dream about it, so it was a dream come true. But it’s just the start. I know I’ve got a lot of work to do just like all of us rookies got a lot of work to do to go in there and prove ourselves. Everybody does, everybody starts at ground zero. So I’m just working hard and trying to get better.