Brandon Roy
Brandon Roy
Brandon Dawayne Roy is an American retired professional basketball player who played for the Portland Trail Blazers and Minnesota Timberwolves in the National Basketball Association. He was selected sixth in the 2006 NBA draft, having completed four years playing for the Washington Huskies. His nickname was "B-Roy", but he was also referred to as "The Natural" by Trail Blazers announcer Brian Wheeler. On December 10, 2011, Roy announced his retirement from basketball due to a degenerative knee condition, though he...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth23 July 1984
CitySeattle, WA
It makes it a lot smoother. At the beginning of the game, it's more my time. Then when Jamaal comes in, I can kind of concentrate on other areas and it's more his time.
It made me see the other side of life. It made me realize, I have a chance to do something special, and I need to take advantage of it.
It's fun playing Oregon. It's an up-tempo game. Hopefully, we'll make some shots.
It wasn't a big deal for me. It was a good game. I'm just happy we played a great game.
It was a great game to play in.
It's weird times. It's unfortunate, but we're just happy they took the right steps to make sure everybody was safe and allowed us to get out here and play basketball.
Any time you lose three in row it gets hard to put the game away, so I took it myself to put it away.
Arizona State has some bruisers on their team and they neutralized him a little bit. But Arizona, we don't think they are as tough on the inside and we think Jon could have a big performance. We are looking forward to him just banging in there and being relentless, and eventually we think he can wear on them.
They're going to stay packed in and try to force you to make jump shots. That's something we've been working on all week, going against a zone and a sagging man-to-man and making sure we still penetrate and don't just settle for outside shots.
They're on TV a lot. We have watched them all season long. I know their starting five. I know guys off their bench. I know their team.
There's always a weakness in every team. They have had a lot of games this season where they are down 15 and they come back. That just shows how dominating of a team they are, and it also shows that sometimes they are less focused for 40 minutes. That may leave the door open for us.
They were a tough team, you might not be able to tell from the stands, but out there, they were really physical.
The consistency of fans now is so much better. I think it has a lot to do with our play, and we're doing it together. The better we get, the better they get.
All these accomplishments wouldn't be as great if we were just a mediocre team right now.