Jason Richardson
Jason Richardson
Jason Anthoney Richardsonis an American retired professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association. Richardson was taken by the Golden State Warriors as the fifth overall pick in the 2001 NBA draft after playing college basketball for Michigan State University. He won the NBA Dunk Contest in both 2002 and 2003, becoming the second of four players, after Michael Jordan, to win the competition back-to-back. Other back-to-back winners include Nate Robinson, and Zach LaVine...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth20 January 1981
CitySaginaw, MI
We didn't execute our game plan. They had other guys scoring big numbers. Eddie Jones scored big. Shane Battier scored big. Bobby Jackson came in and had a big night.
We're not taking care of the lead. We have to be a lot smarter with the ball. When you have a team down by 10 or 15 points, have them on the ropes, you have to put them away.
We're still hoping. The Kings have got the playoff spot we want. We know we've pretty much got to run the table from here on out.
Whatever he ate, whatever he did, whoever said anything to him, we need him to play like that every night.
We know if we are beat, somebody's going to be back there. In the past, it wasn't like that. If you pressured up on somebody and you got beat, you were getting dunked on. This year, we're helping each other out.
We play good defensively for 14 seconds, and that other 10 seconds, we slip. The shot clock comes down, we don't get a rebound or we don't get help. Just little things we're not doing that we need to get back to if we want to be a good team and we want to win games.
We're learning how to play when the other team knows you're good. You have to find ways to win games. It's all part of the process, but we have to find ways. That's part of the adjustment when you become a good team.