Alando Tucker
Alando Tucker
Alando Forest Tuckeris an American professional basketball player, currently playing for Maccabi Kiryat Gat of the Israeli Premier League. Tucker played five seasons at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and wore the number 42...
chance cherish everybody guys last left looking lose minutes ncaa ready realize
I want all our guys to realize that if we get a chance to play in the NCAA tournament, that's our last chance. If we lose then, there's no more looking back and saying, 'OK, we can get it back.' You can't get it back. If we have 40 minutes left (in) our season, we have to cherish that. Everybody has to be ready to play. We have to just think we can't get that back. So we have to play with that urgency.
name opportunity player scare team win
The name of a team doesn't scare me. The name of a player doesn't scare me. It's an opportunity for us to win a ballgame.
closing floor
They're two freshmen, but they're out on the floor closing out the game.
closing confidence floor freshmen shows
They're two freshmen but they're out on the floor closing out a game. It just shows the confidence that he's got (in them).
ball minute player screen
You never know what to look for. The minute that you think they're going on a screen they backdoor you. ... Their passes, they put the ball there before the player is there. They keep you on your heels.
chance close depending happen hopefully ourselves position strong ten
You never know what's going to happen in the Big Ten. We have to close out as strong as we can. There's still a possibility for us to get a Big Ten championship, depending on how things go. We just have to do everything we can to put ourselves in position to hopefully have a chance to win.
coach confidence gets tells
Defensively, his confidence is really growing. Everything coach tells him he gets done.
Definitely. I could breathe. It didn't feel like I had windshield wipers.
close clutch confidence couple games handled knock last lately minutes playing shots situations totally
That's why I have a lot of confidence still. It's not like we're just playing totally bad. We have to be able to close out games when it's getting tough, when it's getting down to the last couple of minutes and being able to knock shots down. Clutch situations lately we haven't handled very well.
coming concentration games win
That's how you win games - if you're attacking, aggressive. That was a big concentration coming into the game.
attack saw watched win
That's how you win games, if you attack and you're aggressive. The Northwestern game, we watched that and saw where we had a lot of opportunities where we could (have) and we didn't attack.
cut guys seeing seemed time touched
They never stopped. Every time it seemed like I made a cut or touched (the ball), I was seeing two or more guys coming.
bounce good jump knew loss recover taking tough
We knew we were going to jump back into the Big Ten. It was tough taking that loss but you can't think about it. That's one of the things we've been doing so good as a team. We've been able to recover and bounce back really well.
believe believing matter
I know what Kam can do. I know the abilities he has. I believe in him. It's just a matter of him believing in himself.