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
free points rebounds special work
He's a special kid. To go out there and have 28 points and 26 rebounds is special. Now all he has to do is work on his free throws. But with Dwight, the sky's the limit.
awesome couple drew game messed offensive physical player points shut thinking tonight tried
He's an awesome player and all I as thinking about before the game was that 44 points he scored and how I was going to shut him down. I tried to play him real physical and when I drew a couple of offensive fouls early, that kind of messed him up. Tonight just wasn't his night.
guys home physical start teams
Other teams have started to feel like they're at home when they play in Orlando. We've got to start being more physical and let these guys know that this is our place.
played tough
I thought I played him well. We're just making it tough on ourselves. It shouldn't have come to that.
francis playing steve
Steve Francis wasn't playing like the Steve Francis we all know. I think he'll show the real Steve in New York.
awesome complain hard job plays says steve superstar
Steve did an awesome job off the bench. He didn't complain about it. When you've got a superstar like that who comes out and plays hard after being suspended, that says a lot for his character.
difference guard passing point scoring steve
That was the difference between having a scoring point guard and a passing point guard out there. Steve is a scoring point guard; Carlos is a passing point guard.
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.
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.
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.
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.
win
If we go out there and play defense, we can win games.
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.