Poole has absorbed everything into his own style, and now he’s a key player on a team with championship hopes. But he says he’s not thinking too far ahead despite everything seemingly going his way. The awards don’t matter to him—Poole wasn’t named a finalist for Most Improved Player of the Year. Neither does all the talk on social media about his highlights. He’s not into it. There’s a lot of Klay to Poole. He says it himself. “I don’t think about too much ahead of me or in the past,” Poole says. “I don’t do anything right now but play basketball. Basketball is my main focus. I just come in, I get my work done, and find ways to get better on the court. Then I just go home, chill, and gain as much energy as I can at home to go back and do it all over again.”