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
This means a lot. This is my last go-around. I don't want to go out a loser. I want to go to the NCAA tournament. We could be the first UW team to go three times in a row since I don't know when. So this is all stuff I want to be part of.
There's a lot of good teams on that 32-game home win streak. Another one came in here and took it from us. It's the only way it should end.
They're so experienced and so talented. We're definitely going to need them to make some mistakes to win.
This is the first night that me, Bobby and Jamaal all got on the same page. It's important that we step up and be seen. If we get on the same page night in, night out, we can be a really good team.
This is the first night me, Bobby and Jamal got on the same page. We need to lead this team. I think tonight we did a good job.
After beating Gonzaga, we knew were good enough to beat anybody. Now I'll be disappointed if we don't go deep in the (NCAA) tournament.
Coach said just push it up the court. Push it and pull it. That's what I did.
Coach knows that when the game gets tight, a light switch goes off in my head.
That's going to be a struggle between two teams trying to impose their wills on one another. If they can get it in the half-court set, they'll have the advantage.
A Pac-10 championship is on the line, but more than that, I want to go out a winner at (home).
Any change right now can be good for us. I don't feel we have very good chemistry offensively.
They get up to play us. I don't know if they can beat Oregon, but if they got us in the first round, maybe. ... It's their ability to get us to play their style of basketball. We can't play at that pace. ... If you ask me if the Cougars are a last-place team, I'd say no.
There are no Americans or Morgan States in the Pac-10.
We're ready to try to get this monkey off our back. We got one monkey off our back with the Gonzaga win, so hopefully we can do it again.