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 here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.
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.
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.
He's a dude that will just go in before the game and get shots up. Even for an all-star game, you don't see that. He was getting shots up when everybody else was gone. You could tell he was really committed.
It's a great story, but we'd be a lot happier if it's a story that ended now.
He was hurt so bad. A lot of other guys would have quit.
The guards were supposed to pop out and get the ball, but it didn't work out that way. We just didn't execute that well.
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.
I knew I wasn't going to come in here and get 20 rebounds. Boxing out a guy like him is really a tough job.