Al Harrington
Al Harrington
Albert "Al" Harringtonis an American professional basketball player who last played for the Sydney Kings of the National Basketball League. Selected with 25th overall pick in the 1998 NBA draft, Harrington played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Associationfor the Indiana Pacers, Atlanta Hawks, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets, Orlando Magic and Washington Wizards. He also spent a short stint with the Fujian Sturgeons of the Chinese Basketball Association...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth17 February 1980
CityOrange, NJ
(Williams) played well, and he got it done for them. He hit all the big shots, got into the paint when he needed to, to find guys and get easy looks. He did a good job tonight.
We had way too many days off. We lost our rhythm. We lost our feel.
That was big because I let my team down (in the last game). I just had to come on -- be more aggressive and produce.
I wish we played them 80 times this year. That's a great team over there, but for some reason we just out played them. We got the sweep but now we have to move on and win this game on Friday (against the Nets).
We kind of got disoriented by not running our stuff. But we came out and played the way we're supposed to in the second half.
We came out a little flat and we shouldn't have had that type of lapse. We had a great shoot-around, so there was no reason for us to come out and play the way we did.
We're so close. If we didn't have such a bad start, we'd be in the thick of things. We're still playing for a lot of pride.
We've won our last three that way. We'll take 26 more like that as long we win. We never get discourage. We just play through our mistakes and that's the biggest difference.
We took a couple steps backwards. The last couple of games we were focused in the fourth quarter and pretty much could get the job done. Tonight, we didn't do that.
I got the call when I was getting into my car. I can't (pretend); I cried like a baby. I cried as soon as I got in the car. Then I called my mom. When you realize you're never going to see somebody again, it hits you. We'll never see him again.
(Hawks GM) Billy Knight told me I'm not going anywhere, so mentally that's where I'm at now. I'm not thinking about it at all. He said if there's something that comes along, something that he's thinking about doing, I'll be the first to know before he does it.
(We want to) give the fans something to look forward to next year. We're going to be a much better team, and we are going to be scratching and clawing our way into the playoffs next year.
Believe it or not, when it left my hand, it felt good.
When someone is scoring like that, everybody else isn't involved. When they do shoot, they're ice cold, so that worked in our favor.