Allan Ray Hard Quotations

It was a great game. A good bounce-back game for us after losing to Canada yesterday. It showed how much pride we have in USA Basketball. After losing yesterday's game, coming out and being able to play hard today against Puerto Rico, that says a lot.

My off-the-field heroes, the people who gave me the values to live by and who inspired me with their hard work and unselfish dedication to their family, were my mom, Catherine, and my dad, William.

(Syracuse) gave us a lot of open looks. When you give good players open looks, it's hard not to miss.

We thought when we came here that we were going to be in the tournament every year. But I'm kind of glad how things worked out because we went through so much and worked so hard to get where we're at now ... It wasn't an easy road for us. Nothing was handed to us. We had to deal with many different issues and that makes it even sweeter.

We were just like, 'Man, listen, the No. 1 team is out and it could easily happen to us. We don't want to be the ones going home. We worked too hard for it.

Surprisingly, it's not that hard to block things out. You just go up there confident, with a clear head.