Andrew Bogut
Andrew Bogut
Andrew Michael Bogutis an Australian professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association. The 7-footcenter was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the first overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft. He earned All-NBA Third Team honors with the Bucks in 2010. He was traded to the Golden State Warriors in 2012, and was named NBA All-Defensive Second Team in 2015, when he won an NBA championship with the Warriors...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth28 November 1984
CityMelbourne, Australia
CountryAustralia
I grew up watching him play on the Bulls. Between him and Michael Jordan I would've rather seen Toni score 30 points in a game.
That's the sort of thing that I have spoken to him about as a friend - I've told him you've got to bulk up,
I remember when I was a kid having the Friday night games or the Saturday night games - a South East Melbourne versus Melbourne . . . they were huge, sold out, you couldn't get a ticket,
That's not my goal, to win rookie of the year. I don't care about that stuff. Individual goals. Usually, the rookie of the year doesn't make it to the playoffs. I'd rather make it to the playoffs.
There is always room for improvement in every area.
We win this game, everything changes. That's the story of our season. We make things very hard on ourselves.
The public's got it right, a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and like to spend lots of money and have lots of girlfriends and all that.
We come out soft. Every team that has come in here has probably run the first quarter.
We have the toughest team in the league. But we've got the mind-set we can win.
We put ourselves in a position to make a move and then it collapses. It's never ending.
We'd rather get five and get Cleveland, but it's going to be a tough game.
We didn't want him to go off for 50, but he shot the ball so well coming out that it's was kind of hard to stop him. Other guys didn't get involved in the second half and that keyed us.
We tried to make him shoot the jumper in the first half and we brought help on him (in the second half). He started to find teammates, and that's the sign of a great player. He didn't try to come out and get 50. He came out and nearly got a triple-double. The smart players know how to do that.
To be honest it is going to be hard for him. Teams are going to sit on him and make him pass the ball. Teams know they cannot allow Michael to score 30 or 40 because it keeps us in games. So they are going to make him pass the ball. At the same time we need more from other players.