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 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.
One injury can change the course of a season. You lose a key player, you've got to change your offense, your defensive schemes. It hurts your team. You don't want that to happen to anybody, but that's the way basketball is.
I look at Baron as the Steve Nash factor. Phoenix had all these guys, but they weren't winning. They got Steve Nash and they won. I look at Baron as that missing piece that helps us win.
It's the first road win of the season and when you play at the Garden, you always want to win.
I think we're too focused on the stars. When you focus on the stars, role players get off. Guys that usually don't have big nights are getting 20, 25 points. Once they get their points, the starters come in and kick our butts.
He is the top guard in the league, and he won the game. He knew they needed buckets, and he took the game over.
They want to sway away from the hip-hop generation, ... You think of hip-hop right now and think of things that happen like gangs having shootouts in front of radio stations.
There was a lot of desperation to win these games. Closing out the game. Hitting free throws. Valuing each possession of the ball. We did it all tonight and we pulled the game out.
Huge. We're on a nine-game losing streak. We were playing on national TV. We didn't want to go out and embarrass ourselves getting blown out in the game.
Neither team played defense. A lot of guys scored points and there was a lot of foul shooting and a lot of fouling. If we could have made a couple of stops, we would have won the game.
I think it's a sense of urgency. When we have our backs to the wall and we need to win a game, I think we really focus in. We've got to find a way to have that sense of urgency, whether it's a seven-game winning streak or a seven-game losing streak, every time we step on the floor if we want to make the playoffs this year.
The young guys got a lot of talent. Right now, they're playing with their talent, and they're playing better than what we expected of them.
I'm a jumper, he's a passer. So there's going to be some spectacular plays going on.
You still wear a suit, you still could be a crook,