Dee Brown
Dee Brown
Daniel "Dee" Brownis a retired American professional basketball player. Brown played at the University of Illinois from 2002 to 2006, receiving numerous awards and accolades, including the 2005 Sporting News National Player of the Year. Brown was selected in the second round of the 2006 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz, and was the starting point guard for 11 consecutive games for the Washington Wizards. Brown played for several international basketball teams from 2007 to 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth17 August 1984
CityJackson, MS
CountryUnited States of America
He's a great talent and he likes to talk trash.
Guys are a little confused, and coach is yelling all the time. It's going to be a grind. The Big Ten is a grind-out conference.
I'm going to shoot 'em, anyway. I'm going to go 1-for-9, 1-for-30, 1-for-50. If I don't make one more shot this season, I'm still going to play the way I play and do the things I do.
The girls have been working very hard. They all have ran for the past four years and will be tremendous assets for our program.
He wanted me to do more and get involved by running off screens. I wasn't doing that, and he got in my ear. ... That's what coach wants, and I have to work on it.
I don't see anything we'd be feuding about, ... What's there for him and me to be mad about?
Right when it left my hand I thought it was good, then I saw it was long. I usually make them. It just didn't go in for me.
If he gets his confidence I have confidence he can play like this every game.
That's the way it goes. We have to focus on basketball.
I think every team comes out and just gives it their all and plays good team basketball, and we've got to be focused every game and come out with intensity.
It's a wonderful thing. He rebounds, he runs the floor, he's a terrific guy. He's a first-round pick if he continues to get that killer mentality and feels like every rebound is his. This is a great accomplishment for him. But I know he's not going to get complacent. He's going to continue to get better.
Not everybody gets to play for Illinois. That's the way it goes. His future wasn't with us.
Five rebounds, five assists, no turnovers. He played solid. He always plays solid.
I expected us to go to California. You have to expect the worst.