Aaron Gray
Aaron Gray
Aaron Michael Grayis an American former professional basketball player who played eight seasons in the National Basketball Association. A heart condition forced him into early retirement in 2015. He is currently an assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth7 December 1984
CityLos Angeles, CA
biggest continue felt free game practice since team throws weakness
I felt confident. Ever since the Marquette game, every day I've been working on my free throws before and after practice with the coaches. Apparently, I just need to continue working on it. It's probably the biggest weakness in my game right now. I let my team down.
lose season
It's another season now. We know where we stand: You lose and you're done.
easy four offense taking three
My offense was bad, and I had to keep taking three or four opportunities to get an easy basket.
defensive people presenting seems setting step strategies teams
Other teams are keying in on him, setting whole defensive strategies around him. That's presenting opportunities for other people to step up. It's amazing. It seems like every game, it's someone different.
anxious bad coaches early eight fact goes man played playing teams
The coaches just told me to be patient. I get real anxious when I see teams are playing me man-to-man. Early on, I had a lot of bad turnovers. I think that goes to the fact that we hadn't played in eight days.
balancing coaching coming focused guys happy high rotation
He's really coming into his own. He has such high expectations coming in. He has surpassed everyone's expectations. It's his team. He's making his own coaching decisions, balancing a 9-, 10-man rotation -- which not a lot of guys can do -- and keep everyone happy and focused on winning.
came country teams tough
Two tough teams went at it and they just came out on top. They're not the No. 1 team in the country for nothing.
church clothes ready sunday
We've got our church clothes ready for Sunday morning. You can write that down.
emphasis game lead obviously post
We wanted to put the emphasis on our post game with Padgett out. We did that. We obviously got out to a big lead because of that.
board happy people running
Without any pressing issues, there won't be a lot of change. Most people are pretty happy with who is running the board now.
denying drew good great job tribute
We drew up a play and Connecticut did a good job of denying me in the post. It's a tribute to great Connecticut defense.
beat country team
We beat the No. 2 team in the country that got a No. 1 seed. Our expectations were higher.
coming determined final great guys hard job playing plays team
We started off real slow, and the guys did a great job of playing so hard and coming back. Our team was almost, like, determined at one point. We just didn't make the final plays to come down the stretch.
ahead confidence last playing steps
We're steps ahead of last year. We're playing more like a team. We have confidence in each other.