Craig Smith
Craig Smith
Craig Smithis an American professional basketball player. He recently played for Ironi Nes Ziona of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. After playing at Boston College from 2002–2006, he was selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2006 NBA draft...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth10 November 1983
CityInglewood, CA
although best chances compete create five good miss second
We just did not compete and were second best in most things, although we did create five good chances only to miss them all.
last lost past second
This is big. The last two years, we lost in the second round. Now that we're past that, the sky's the limit.
above against fired game gave goal kept played points score second state team
In the first game against Holton, we played with them, but we didn't play as well as we could have. In the second game, we were down by 10, and I gave them the goal to score 20 points before Holton scored 25 and we got to 23-21. It kept us fired up, because it showed us what we could do when we played the No. 1 team in the state in the classification above us.
assert game knew patient second
I just knew that I've got to be a little more patient and it will come. In the second half, I wanted to assert myself. We want to make a statement. Going 0-3, every game now is important for us.
bit crunch guys knew offensive open second shots time
In the second half, I knew it was going to open up for me a little bit because guys were making shots and getting it done on the offensive end. I just knew it was going to be my time in crunch time.
fell focus last past second tried
It's big. The last two years we fell off in the second round. This year, we really tried to focus on getting past this. Now that we're past this, we feel the sky's the limit.
bit fairly gave good great knock player shot
I think we did a fairly good job. Obviously, we just gave him a little bit of space. When you give a great player like that a little bit of space, he can knock the shot down.
easy finding hot jeff nice stop teammates tried
Jeff was really hot early. And that's the nice thing about having so many options, they tried to stop him and my teammates started finding me. I got a lot of easy baskets.
came court feeling team
We came off that court feeling we were a better team than them. We just didn't execute.
bit goal national win
Our goal from Day 1 was to get back to the national tournament. But there are two championships to win in our conference. We're a little bit greedy. We want to win them both.
game plan rhythm
Our game plan was to come out and be aggressive. We were just in a rhythm and got it going.
eating interested
I think more of us are interested in eating better.
ankle confidence knowing run
Just knowing (Andrus) was able to run on her ankle is a confidence boost.
thinking won
I was thinking we had won a hard-fought battle, and I was going to celebrate.