DeShawn Stevenson
DeShawn Stevenson
DeShawn Stevensonis an American former professional basketball player who last played for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. Before his NBA career, he originally committed to play at the University of Kansas, but decided to enter the NBA directly from Washington Union High School in his hometown of Fresno, California and was picked by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd selection of the 2000 NBA draft. He is well known for his defense and his athleticism...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth3 April 1981
CityFresno, CA
everybody hard playing
Everybody out there is playing hard and playing like a game. When you do that, sometimes you can get hurt.
everybody good happy passing shows vibes
Everybody is happy with each other, everybody is passing the ball, there's a lot of good vibes and it shows on the court.
agree ask chain decision everybody maybe money people spend stop though tough waste wearing wrong
I don't agree with it, but there is something wrong with that. I'm all for wearing suits, even though I don't wear suits. I think jewelry-wise, that's a decision on how we want to spend our money. I feel like people want that. People like the watches, the chains. Even when I go out, when I don't wear it, people ask me, 'Where's the chain at?' It's going to be pretty tough to get everybody to stop wearing their $30,000, $40,000 -- maybe more than that -- chains. It's a waste of money if we can't wear it where we want to wear it.
ball beginning good passing sad vibes
Everybody's happy, we're passing the ball to each other and there are a lot of good vibes right now. It's sad because we could have done this at the beginning of the season.
ball behind dribble good hard job moves shoot
It's hard to read A.I.. He has a lot of moves and can dribble the ball and shoot the ball from behind the (3-point) arc. But I think we did a good job tonight. He had 36, but we did a good job.
ball court good happy passing
You can see on the court that everybody's happy with each other. Everybody's passing the ball to each other. There's good vibes.
eventually good guys playoff struggling talented team term though trades
We're way more talented than our record. After the trades we made, you can see that in the long term we're going to be a good team down the line. We've got a lot of young guys who are 23, 24 and even 20 years old, and we're eventually going to be a playoff team even though we're struggling now.
team worry
We do want to go to the playoffs, no doubt. But we've got to worry about each team that comes in here.
came couple dug game ourselves pressure shots slow stop third
We got it back down to a four-point game and Gilbert came down and made a couple big shots and Jamison, too. We started off slow and dug ourselves a hole, and when we got back, they put the pressure back on and went back up by 10 points. ... In the third we were making shots and they were making shots. It came down to who was going to stop the other first.
grant heads missing steve stretch tough
We're going through a tough stretch right now, but our heads are still up. We're missing Steve and Grant (Hill), but there are no excuses. We just have to go and play.
locker negative next players starting stops win
This stops the bleeding. Things were starting to get negative around the locker room, players were getting on each other. But we get a win like this, it relaxes us. Now, we've just got to come out and play and get the next one.
played speak
You can look at it on film, but I'm not going to speak on it. We played hard. We played real hard.
game talking team worried
We're not talking about the playoffs. We're talking about each game. We go into every game worried about the team we're playing.
ball demeanor forward good next seen year
We've got next year to look forward to. We've got a good ball club, and we've seen the whole demeanor of things change.