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
We do want to go to the playoffs, no doubt. But we've got to worry about each team that comes in here.
You get into a city at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning off a back-to-back, you don't want to have put all of that stuff on. I just think it's a little too excessive.
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.
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.
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.
You can look at it on film, but I'm not going to speak on it. We played hard. We played real hard.
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.
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.
There are a lot of games left. With the NBA, you never know.