Marcus Ginyard
Marcus Ginyard
Marcus Darrel Ginyardis an American professional basketball player who plays for Hermine de Nantes Atlantique of the LNB Pro B. He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels after a high school career at Bishop Denis J. O'Connell High School in Arlington, Virginia. Ginyard’s role as a defensive stopper became his forte for the Tar Heels after his arrival. He has also previously played in Germany, Israel, Poland and Ukraine...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth8 May 1987
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I think Danny might be wrong thinking we'll have butterflies. I think we'll be so excited and so pumped up to play that I doubt there will be any butterflies. I don't know how he felt but going into Cameron Stadium (at Duke last Saturday) I didn't have any butterflies myself. I was so excited. I think the excitement factor will cancel it out.
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He's going to knock down tough shots, and you've got to make every shot as tough as you possibly can for him.
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He's going to make those shots. Even over great defense.
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Just staying behind him, not letting him make contact with you. Once he's feeling you for contact, that's when he can get his spacing. You just try to stay behind him. You try to stay close enough so you don't lose him, but not too close where he can get his hands on you.
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Danny was big-time tonight. He's always there kind of lurking around. He was a big lift for us this time. We know he can step up and take big-time shots.
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He just sent the message that obviously that five wasn't getting it done effort-wise. Any time a coach subs all five, you've got to know it's for that reason and that reason only.
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That's why they're outside and we're inside. We think more of ourselves than a lot of other people do, but that doesn't matter. We know what we're capable of.
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He won't settle for mediocrity. He says we've got five freshmen on the team and things like that, but over and over in the locker room he's telling us that we're going to be a good team. We can't settle for any less than that.
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It doesn't really matter to me who I'm coming in for. You've just got to come in ready to play, and I finally answered that call late in the game.
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It was tough to play defense for that long and have them down by that much, and for him to make that crazy shot like that, that just really got them going. From then on, they started coming back into the game. You could see everybody's head drop on the bench when the shot went it. It just started the story of the game.
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The jitters went away when I put my shoes on and walked out there. I didn't have any jitters when I was out there because we knew what we were in for.
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Not many kids would have wanted to have been in there. But he's just getting through to us that we've got to play a lot harder than we did.
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You lose the game by three points, there's three points right there. It's dangerous to give a team like that the momentum. It was a big-time shot.
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We understand we can't have any mental mistakes. Mental mistakes are what other teams capitalize on, and that's how you get upsets. We've got to get the mind strong for where we're going to go.