Deron Williams
Deron Williams
Deron Michael Williamsis an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the University of Illinois before being drafted third overall in the 2005 NBA draft by the Utah Jazz. The three-time NBA All-Star has also played for Beşiktaş of the Turkish Basketball League, and was a gold medal winner on the United States national team at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth26 June 1984
CityParkersburg, WV
CountryUnited States of America
We're just trying to stay alive. We're going to play 'til they tell us we can't play anymore.
As a team we feel pretty good. (Next year) we should definitely make the playoffs. I won't guarantee it like some people do, but we feel that we should. We feel we should have made it this year.
I'm sure it will be a lot different, but we've just got to do the same thing as tonight. We've just got to keep fighting. We got down in the fourth quarter, then fought back and won.
All I can say is we stunk. We were never in the game. It seemed like our heads weren't in the game, and we really had no chance.
This doesn't feel like a regular win. This was special, because of their streak. This was a statement-maker.
That's something we struggled with at the beginning of the season. We turn up our defense, and we execute. That's the reason we were losing games early on. We weren't doing things that got us to that point.
I just tried to stay in front of him and not foul. I just tried to put my hands up and hopefully they didn't call a foul.
It was tough because we tried to play good D. Allen Iverson is definitely one of the best players. He's the toughest person I've ever had to guard.
As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.
We needed this one bad. We need these next two really. We're on the outside looking in right now. We've got 28 games left. We've got to make a run. Getting these two right here definitely helps our case.
We've just got to get some wins. We're still alive in this thing, the season's not over. We've still got a chance, whether it's a slim chance or not. If we keep winning and some teams lose, we're right there.
We got some shots, they missed some shots, and we converted. We forced some turnovers and they weren't able to run as much. That was good for us.
We cut the lead and started coming back, but we just had some mental (lapses) on defense at the end and that cost us the game.
We've been trying to get there (.500). We've been battling every night to get there. We look around our league and teams are losing, it's the perfect time to make a run before the All-Star break.