Chauncey Billups
Chauncey Billups
Chauncey Ray Billupsis an American retired professional basketball player who played 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association. A star at the University of Colorado, he was selected third overall in the 1997 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics. A five-time NBA All-Star and a three-time All-NBA selection, Billups played for the Celtics, Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks, and Los Angeles Clippers during his NBA career. He won the NBA Finals MVP in 2004...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth25 September 1976
CityDenver, CO
We've done nothing. We've held serve with home-court advantage.
With the tough game we had last night and traveling as well, this team was waiting on us.
We wanted nothing but a win, not showboating or any of that. That's just how we play. ... We don't have the personnel to play that other way.
We go back to the hotel instead of to the airplane.
We will be fine. I guarantee we will be fine.
When you have to take the ball out, you can't run. This last couple of weeks our defense hasn't been the same. When you have to take that ball out, you can't get transition baskets.
We come out this way and it's an advantage to have him and his staff because they've been in this conference for 10 years, and they know all these teams and all these players, all their tendencies. We know the basic stuff about these teams. We know what they like to do -- meat and potatoes. But they know them inside-out.
We don't like to rely on it, but everybody knows we can turn it on. We're one of those teams that have an extra gear on both ends.
Yeah, we play with a little extra incentive when we're here at our building. Our fans are the best fans in all of basketball and we want to give them a treat. We play with a little special chip when we're at home.
We were running around having fun. We were pretty much playing pre-season minutes, which is working out well.
We'll be on their turf, where they beat us before, so we'll be looking forward to it.
We changed up our scheme a little bit defensively and made them take tougher shots. Once we made our adjustments and changed our scheme a little bit at halftime, we started hitting some shots as well, and our defense picked our offense up, too.
We felt we had a chance to win this series, but nobody else felt that. We knew we were the only ones who believed in us.
We enjoy that challenge of beating a team on their own turf, when their fans are going crazy and screaming for them like they should. We enjoy that challenge and that level of competition.