Joe Ingles has a lot on his mind.
At the forefront is an NBA Playoffs campaign with a Utah Jazz team that entered the postseason with the league's best record. Look a bit deeper, and you'll find the ever-present quest to help lead the Australian Boomers to a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
Ingles, a veteran in every sense of the word, isn't new to that sort of juggling act.
"You throw in having a wife and three kids, and it's pretty easy to stay focused," Ingles told ESPN. "Because I come in here everyday and do what I need to do and obviously put in the work and the mindset."
Compartmentalising all of those things and retaining a singular focus is even more difficult when the stakes are so high, and that's why the context of those respective goals matter so much.
The Jazz have their best chance to win a title in more than 20 years, since it was John Stockton and Karl Malone donning those navy blue jerseys. The Boomers' recent history is well-known - and unenvied - in Australian basketball lore, with the program still without a medal at a major tournament after back-to-back fourth-place finishes.
"Honestly, right now, the Boomers is in my mind, but it's very far back in my mind; I think understandably in the back of my mind," Ingles said.
"I still think about it a little bit. I talk to my teammates; I was texting with Patty [Mills] last night about stuff. [But], I come in here and it's 100 percent completely about the Jazz. It's not about me using this as preparation for the Boomers, using this as anything else but to win a series and obviously, hopefully continuously win series'.
"I leave here and I go home and pick up the kids and have dinner and get food thrown at me and put them to bed, get a few hours' sleep, then come back and do it again.
"Maybe someone else in this situation, it might be more difficult, but I've been confident - and good enough - in my career that I've been able to split those things apart and not focus on too much else, except what the present is... I think it's been a bonus of whoever taught me to do it, whether it's my parents or Matty Nielsen when I was young being his roommate. Being able to focus on what I'm doing at the time... As soon as this is over - hopefully very, very late - I'll be jumping on a plane the next day and, as soon as I get on that plane, that mentality will switch to what I need to do and what I need to get ready to help the Boomers."
Ingles' path with both the Jazz and the Boomers have similarities, and while the driving force may be the talent and very real potential to reach the promised land, it's a certain level of disappointment that truly informs his mindset going into each of those environments.
The Jazz blew a 3-1 lead against the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the 2020 NBA Playoffs, while the Boomers squandered two opportunities to win a medal at the most recent World Cup.
"It hits you pretty hard... for it to slip away like it did... I think we all remember that, and we don't wanna forget that," Ingles said. "You wanna use it as motivation. It's almost similar to what we've been through with the Boomers, being so close to medaling and then not. You have that burning desire to not let it happen again and move forward with it.
"Myself and Patty and a few of the older guys, we've been through a lot with this Boomers group. Since 2007... we started at the bottom... we were building our program up and we got to the point now where we believe we can win it. Why shouldn't we? It's disappointing we haven't won it the last couple campaigns... Same with the Jazz. It makes you just not wanna leave. You just wanna keep going back for more, until we end up getting our ultimate goal which is obviously a championship here, and a gold medal with Australia."
It's no surprise that, even as an NBA postseason gets into full swing and all eyes are on the Larry O'Brien Trophy, the discourse among Boomers players remains ongoing.
Just before sitting down for his interview with ESPN, Ingles received a well-wishing text from Matthew Dellavedova. The day before, it was Mills. Matthew Nielsen, a newly-appointed assistant coach of the Boomers, is based in the US and has been regularly touching base with the program's NBA-based players.
"They're watching clips of all of us, they're getting our stuff ready, getting prepared," Ingles said of the national team's preparations for the Tokyo Olympics.
"When the day comes - for Patty, it was the other day; for Delly, more recently as well; Baynesy as well; everyone's on holiday except me and Ben and Matisse - as that goes further down, we'll obviously keep talking throughout, but get more serious as we get more closer to it...
"It's exciting when you do talk about it, but depending on what part of the year it is, you know there's still a long, long season ahead for us. Those guys are more focused on that right now, getting ready for the Boomers campaign. I'll still have it in my mind, but it'll be a bit further back until we do what we need to do here."
When that time does come, Ingles can have comfort in the fact that he's playing the best basketball of his career.
The Australian wing, 33, began the NBA season by breaking Stockton's record for the most made three-pointers in Jazz history, and continued to shoot the ball at a historic rate.
"When your name is near or close to any of those two guys - John or Karl - you know you've done something right," Ingles said of the feat. "To be on that list, it was kind of a step back for a second and have a half a glass of wine and enjoy it for a second."
Ingles' rise as a professional has been a unique and inspiring one. He began at the Australian Institute of Sport, played as a teenager in the NBL, before heading to Europe and Israel. He only got to the NBA at the age of 27, and is now all of a sudden in the same conversation as some of the greats of the franchise he loves being a part of.
And, as much as Ingles thinks Donovan Mitchell will eventually be the one to take that three-point crown - "he'll probably catch me pretty soon," the South Australian says - he still has his sights set on continuing his unlikely, inspiring rise up the NBA.
"It's like, why not make another 10 threes? Bump the lead up even more," Ingles said.
"It's not something that I overthink about, because there is more to do. There have been some achievements done, and I am proud of where I've come from - 10 years ago or 12 years ago, when I first started in Europe or back to the [South] Dragons - but, yeah, I just feel like my off-court life with Renee and the kids is great, and then I get to come into this organisation and they let me be myself, and my body feels great... I feel great.
"I probably don't look it; my eyes have got some bags. I feel great and I feel energised, and I kinda wanna keep this going as long as I can."