Carlos Boozer
Carlos Boozer
Carlos Austin Boozer, Jr.is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. As a member of Team USA, Boozer won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and an Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. The two-time NBA All-Star has also played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Utah Jazz and Chicago Bulls...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth20 November 1981
CityAschaffenburg, Germany
win
Any win for us right now is a big win.
handled mature people situation stepped
He's really mature, a lot more mature than most people think. I think every situation he stepped into, he's handled everything very well. I don't see anything changing.
focus
Hopefully, we showed him that we do want to make it and our focus is still on making the playoffs.
felt great leg won workout
I had a great workout yesterday. Had a lot of fun. We won the scrimmage and my leg felt great.
beating building felt heart school
I felt like the first day of school or something. My heart was beating a little faster, my anticipation was building up. It was like the first day of school when you go to kindergarten or something.
gotten healed painful
It's just constricting. It's only painful when I try to do too much. It's fine. It's gotten a lot stronger. It's healed very nicely.
confidence fear tearing
I have much more confidence in being able to play without the fear of it tearing on me again. Now I'm able to have an impact.
aggressive decided decision earn either free offensive shoot team throw
They're an aggressive offensive team so we had to make a decision to either let them shoot or make them earn it. We decided to put them on the free throw line.
decisions
I want to play a lot, but he makes those decisions.
bring energy excitement guys help minutes people pick playing pump regular team
I know I am not going to be playing my regular minutes for a while. When I come in, I am one of those guys that doesn't want to bring people down, I want to pump people up and pick it up a little bit. I want to bring energy and excitement and I want to do everything I can to help the team win.
ball fun share
It was a fun game. It's always fun when we share the ball with each other.
loyalty picking respect signing trust
If you respect me by not picking up the option, I'll show trust and loyalty to you by signing with you.
along care couple everybody seen students took tv white
I've seen a couple things on TV about it. When I was there, and it wasn't too long ago, the white students got along with us great. Everybody took care of each other on campus.
basically break games hopefully momentum road three trip
This road trip is basically going to make or break us. We've got to hopefully take this momentum on the road. All three of those games are going to be tough, because they're all fighting, too.