Devan Downey
Devan Downey
Devan Deangelo Downeyis an American professional basketball player...
concerned living thinking whatever
Right now I'm just living on this. After the season, whatever happens, happens. Right now I'm not even thinking about it, I'm concerned about this team.
beat beaten double figures james team
There's no way that team would've beat us with James and Jihad. We would've beaten them double figures with those two.
coffin shut somebody
Somebody was going to get their coffin shut tonight, and it wasn't going to be us.
confidence game needed
I just needed a game to get my confidence back. We can't give up on each other.
carolina feeling gut south
I just had a gut feeling that South Carolina was the place for me.
explosive figured knew
I knew Padgett wasn't an explosive shot-blocker, so I figured I could get it to the rim.
finally glad pick practice talk team
I'm ready, and as a team we're ready. We talk about it all the time. I'm glad it's finally here. We know we've got to pick everything up, pick practice up and just play.
calming mistake teammates trusting worried
I'm just calming down and playing. My teammates are trusting me. I'm not so worried that I'm going to make a mistake and they're going to be mad.
anyone bob came excuses gave kicked leading lost ourselves proud
I'm so proud of our team, we've been through so much. I was proud we were able to come out and fight. We lost our leading scorer and our third- or fourth-leading scorer and we still came out and never gave ourselves any excuses from (the dismissal of Bob Huggins) to anyone getting kicked off the team. We never gave ourselves any excuses.
hurdles overcame proud tonight
I'm so proud of our team. We have been through so much together. We overcame a lot of hurdles all year. Even tonight we didn't give any excuses.
five hold looked saw seconds time took
I didn't know how much time was on the clock. I was going to hold it for one shot. Then I looked up and saw five seconds left, so I just took off with it.
couple games gave last nobody playing ready step
He told me, 'You have to step up, you haven't been doing it, it's not the Devan I know.' But he used some different words. He had me ready to play. The last couple of games I've been playing bad, but nobody gave it to me like he gave it to me. I wanted to show up.
gets help hope job next people whoever
I hope whoever gets the job gets some people to play around me, because we're going to need a whole lot of help here next year.
basketball college control far guard guards people players post takes tempo trying
In college basketball, you can only go as far as your guard play takes you. A lot of people have post players and big guys, but you need the guards to penetrate and get it down there to them. I just think guards control the tempo of the game. That's what I'm trying to do.