Elton Brand
Elton Brand
Elton Tyron Brandis an American professional basketball player who last played for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association. After playing college basketball for Duke, he was selected with the first overall pick in the 1999 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls, and later played for the 76ers, the Los Angeles Clippers, Dallas Mavericks and Atlanta Hawks...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth11 March 1979
CityCortlandt Manor, NY
dearly moral paid rather rotation trying victories
We got out of rotation and we paid dearly for it. We're not trying to take any moral victories ... we wanted to win. It's encouraging but we'd rather have that 'W'.
sloppy
We got sloppy at the end, but we accomplished what we wanted to.
decided good stops
We got some good stops once we decided to play defense,
blew few guys line team whistle
The referees blew the whistle a lot. Anthony got to the line a lot. Our guys on our team got to the line a few times.
best
We're 5-1 but we're not happy. We didn't play to the best of our ability.
opportunity stretch taking tough victory
We just had a tough stretch there where we couldn't make anything. Taking them to OT, that's one thing, but we had an opportunity for a victory here.
benefit coming energy game run speed spent tried
We tried to speed up the game and do some things that would benefit us. There was a lot of energy spent coming back from the first-quarter run they had.
tried
We tried to take them out early. This was a must-win for us.
close deny door knew
We knew that play was coming. We were going to close the door and deny all options.
corey exactly talking
To have Corey back ? that's exactly what I'm talking about,
absolutely forward goals hard looking next ourselves proud worked
We can be proud of ourselves but we still have goals. We have to be looking forward to the next round. This is absolutely satisfying. It's like vindication because we worked hard and this organization didn't give up.
flat prove screens towards
We still need to prove that we're still a top-notch organization, ... We're going towards that road. I don't have PlayStation in my locker, flat screens or DVD's in my locker.
flat prove screens towards
We still need to prove that we're still a top-notch organization. We're going towards that road. I don't have PlayStation in my locker, flat screens or DVD's in my locker.
learn
We can learn from it. We're going to have to play harder. We have to sharpen up.