He took jump shots with a hand in his face. He shot the ball a lot but when he had to make them he made his share.
We told (center) Robert Swift at the walkthrough this morning and tonight that Ely is going to take two dribbles to the middle and shoot a jump hook. And that's exactly what he did and he scored 21 points in the first half.
We haven't had a power forward here since (Shawn) Kemp who can run and jump and play above the rim like he does.
We went into the game with the idea that Ray would try to push him to a certain part of the floor and there would be help there. I thought Ray did a good job of pushing him there and then our big guys were ready to at least make him take a jump shot.
He (Johan) made jump shots, and I thought that kid was ... for someone we considered putting in the D-League, he was pretty good.