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
We're playing our best basketball all year and we're a really tough team. You can't stop us.
We're just going to keep doing what we've been doing all year. It's the same routine. We don't really have to change anything.
We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.
He was hurt so bad. A lot of other guys would have quit.
I feel like our guys just figured it out. They figured out that they had to go after loose balls and finish out possessions.
Guys are sagging so much in the lane, especially this team. They want you to shoot three's. You can't leave a guy like Lee Humphrey wide open like that and try to sag off, and we made them pay tonight.
I committed to Michigan because that's what everybody wanted me to do, but it wasn't what I wanted. Once I got to hang around the guys down here, I knew where I belonged.
There was not much we could do (last season) because it wasn't our team. It was frustrating at times because we wanted to push the ball. (Anthony) Roberson and Matt Walsh just wanted to walk ... it ... up. I loved playing with those guys but it was frustrating at times.
It's all about confidence, and confidence comes from trusting your teammates. What's great about our team is we never know who's going to step up.
It's all about team chemistry. We're doing it as a group.
After Matt and David and Peep left, we decided we were always going to have to stick together. It was going to be about us, it was about the team, it wasn't about one unique player.
If they (sag) off Lee, it's over. I'm passing it out to him, and he's knocking it down.
That's a big part of our game, is blocking shots. That's the way we play, and if somebody gets it in there, we're going to try to get it out.
I think the culture is always going to be a football culture, as we well know. But I think this definitely impacts the way people are going to start looking at us.