Kyle Korver
Kyle Korver
Kyle Elliot Korveris an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for Creighton and was drafted with the 51st overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft by the New Jersey Nets. Korver became an NBA All-Star for the first time in 2015, and holds the NBA record for the highest three-point field goal percentage in a season. He held the NBA record for most consecutive games with a made three-pointer...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth17 March 1981
CityLakewood, CA
We've just been playing harder. I don't know why this has all of a sudden clicked like it has. We've said all along we have tools, we have talent. For a while, our effort just wasn't there, but I can't put a finger on why it was that way.
We are playing with a greater sense of urgency, and Allen is leading us. I really feel like he's the key. He has a different look in his eye. When he has that look, he's pretty tough to stop.
We?re just playing together, we?re playing with a greater sense of urgency, and Allen is leading us. I really feel like he?s the key. He?s the leader and he?s been playing great. He?s been a lot more vocal. He has a different look in his eye. And when he has that look, he?s pretty tough to stop.
We've been looking for something to get us going for a while. We had some long practices, we had some long meetings. But we got back to having fun out there. When you're having fun, you're going to player harder. When you're playing harder, you're playing better defense.
We've talked more about defense in practice. When we watch film, that's all we watch is defense -- we don't even watch our offense right now. (Defense) has just been our focus. We're playing a different style of basketball right now in terms of slowing it down. We're playing well.
It's all about fitting together and playing together. If we do that, we really have a nice team. That's the key for us. If everyone feels like they're playing at both ends, they're going to play harder.
Allen just comes out and performs, and the numbers he puts up are great. He's just playing really really well right now.
It changes everything. They're two guys with the same athletic makeup. They're blocking shots and getting rebounds. Second-chance points are something that's really hurt us this year. And when those guys are both playing like that, (the opponent) isn't getting any of that. It really does change a lot of things for us. This is really what we had envisioned at the beginning of the season.
You always wanted to get that last win at home. The season hasn't gone exactly the way we wanted it to go, but you want to end it right - so that's what we're trying to do.
We kept saying in the huddle that we're not going to lose to this team four times.
This was a huge boost for us. Now we feel like we can do some things. We've just played together. We talked all year about doing that.
We gave up 86 points in an overtime game. We've given that up in three quarters a lot of times lately.
We gave up 86 points in an overtime game. It seems like we've been giving up 86 points in three quarters in the last month.
We just didn't play well in the first half. That second, we played harder, played a lot better, a lot more energy.