Al Horford
Al Horford
Alfred Joel "Al" Horford Reynosois a Dominican professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the University of Florida, and was the starting center on the Florida Gators teams that won back-to-back NCAA national championships in 2006 and 2007. He was drafted with the third overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks, a team he played nine seasons with before joining the Celtics in 2016. He also...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth3 June 1986
CityPuerto Plata, Dominican Republic
I think at the beginning of the season, he was playing too much to the crowd, especially on the road. We talked to him about controlling his emotions and told him to show his emotions to us, instead of the fans.
You always dreamed about getting to this point. It is big in my mind. I'm pretty excited about it.
We really understand that in order to win, we have to play together and play team ball. I think everybody's OK with that.
Maybe people thought of us as a running team. Or a three-point shooting team. A no-contact team. We've changed that image.
Joe was all over the place. He was terrific.
Who runs the apartment? They'd probably say I do. I'll say Jo does too, but it's my show.
That's the style we play and he's going to have to adjust to that. They're going to have to adjust. The bottom line is we are going to run all night. If he is not in good enough shape, I feel bad for him.
We always talked about how we were going to do big things.
We've just got to adjust. We've seen zone before. It's all about ball movement and attacking through the middle, and I feel like as the game went on, we did a better job doing that.
We just have to move on. You want to win every game, and we wanted to win here, but unfortunately things didn't go our way tonight.
We obviously had a lot of fun. We've done some great things here.
We're trying to keep the same mind-set we've had all season. You have to stay focused. You can't look past anybody.
We were struggling on offense in the first half so I did whatever I had to do to get us going. I knew I had to get everyone fired up.
We are going to the Final Four. Oh man, it's an awesome feeling. I don't have words to explain it.