Tarence Anthony Kinseyis an American professional basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Premier League. Standing at 6'6", he plays the shooting guard and small forward positions... (wikipedia)
When he gets going, you have to. He just gets wild.
Some nights you play good and some nights you play bad.
I don't know what to say or how to say it. We're still believing and still fighting. Hopefully, the man above will have mercy and we can get this thing turned around as quickly as possible.
But we can't dwell on that. We just have to take games one at a time and see what we can do.
Basketball is a game of runs. We had had some runs, but they had more runs and better runs than we did.
Basketball is a game of runs. Everybody can easily run off 10 or 12 points real quick. It is just how we respond when they start going on a run.
I think we've been guarding better, playing better defense and rebounding better. We didn't prove ourselves at the beginning of the year and we're trying to make up for it now.
That burns us up inside. That was a huge lead to have over a team. Right now we have the mentality to come out in the second half and just leave it on the line.
That don't mean anything in tournaments. We've got a lot of aggression built up. ... Let's leave it at that.
It feels good. Last year we were one-and-done, but I think right now we developed some toughness that we don't want to lose. The coaches keep putting it in our heads that we're champions, play like champions.
We need something to keep us together. Right now we still believe we can compete night in and night out but we need something else.
That's the problem. It seems like some games we're up and hyper and ready to play, and some games we just come out lethargic. Right now, we've got momentum because we don't want to go home. And that's the only momentum we need.
You just get so motivated to play a team like Florida. Everyone just seemed to be on the same page.
Usually, when we travel, we used to have our jackets zipped up. We'd gotten away from that. It was a unity type thing, to let everybody know there are no individuals.
We know, right now, we've got to bring our A-game. We can't have an A-minus because we can't afford to lose anything.
We want to make it through the tournament. Everybody can be in the tournament, but you're not really in the tournament until you win a game. We know right now that if we lose we go home.
We think we've got as good a chance as anybody to win it. Even though the season hasn't gone like we wanted, we know we can play with anybody. We're going in there with the idea that we can win it.
Truthfully, I think we play better under the radar. Coming into this game, there was a lot of hype and publicity and stuff that I think this team probably right now we don't need.
Everybody in the gym knew Rondo was going to get it. My main concern was not letting him get to the lane. I thought it was going to be in our favor if he pulled up and took the jump shot. But he hit it.
It would be like a cavity. It would be real sweet.
Right now we've developed some kind of toughness that we don't want to lose.
It's just, you kind of look at each other. You just kind of get the feeling of 'oh my God, I can't believe it,' but at the same time, you've got to get a man on him.
Everybody around this time of year is physically tired. It just depends on the team that's most mentally focused. I think right now, whoever wants it more at that point in time, that's who's going to win. And this team right now, we really want this.
That sounds bad. If we were to lose tomorrow, that just puts us in a deeper hole. We know we've got our backs against the wall.
That's terrible. That's all I can say about that. That's real terrible.
Everyone in the gym knew Rondo was going to get it. My main concern was not let him get to the lane.
It was a dogfight. We bought the fight to them. They brought it back to us.
I'm confident based on how we've been practicing that we can go out and compete extremely well. I'm confident that it won't be our last game. Whoever wants it more right now is going to win. This team right now, we really want it.
I don't want to say revenge. We're just hungry for everything.