Maurice Ager
Maurice Ager
Maurice Darnell Ageris an American former professional basketball player. He played collegiately for the Michigan State Spartans from 2002 until 2006. The 6' 5"guard was best known for being salary filler in the 2008 trade between the Dallas Mavericks and New Jersey Nets, which centered on all-stars Jason Kidd and Devin Harris. An accomplished music producer, Ager was considered for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards for his song "Far From Home." Ager released his debut album, Moe Town Vol. 1...
barely beat free missed
It was huge. They barely missed any free throws. They beat us on the free-throw line.
happened
It happened so fast. We were up there at first and now we're at the bottom. It's rough.
body care matter tired
I tell him he's got to do what he's got to do to take care of his body and play hard. Right now, it really don't matter how tired he is. This is it right now.
allow band ourselves
We just can't allow ourselves to get down. This is when we have to band together.
national top winning within
Winning a national championship. You really can't top that. ... I feel like I'll be kind of underachieving within myself if I don't win a championship before I leave.
stuff
We couldn't get into the stuff we wanted to do.
fight hard huge offense portion stagnant took
That was a huge portion of it. It was hard to get into a rhythm. But they took the fight to us early. Our offense was very stagnant today.
felt good nobody root
It felt good to come back and play at the crib. We ain't had nobody root for us in a long time, so it felt great.
celebrate feels finish good job team time tough
It feels pretty good right now. They're a tough team and we can celebrate right now but at the same time we still have a job to do and finish it off this weekend.
beat key passing tough
When we play that way, it's tough to beat us. The key was passing the way we did.
allowing good great offensive ourselves playing stop team together
We're too good of an offensive team to play the way we've been playing offensively. Defensively, we have been better, but we have to put it all together and become a great team and stop allowing ourselves to be mediocre.
afraid cream crop excited felt four played seen trust
Trust me, man, I've been here four years and I felt like I've seen it all. We've played the cream of the crop every year, so I don't think we're afraid of this schedule. We should be excited about it.
fortunate guys stepped
Those guys stepped up. I feel fortunate to have them as teammates.
behind coming earn guys job ncaa older senior tournament understand win year
When I got here, it was up to the older guys to make me understand how important it was here to win championships and go to the NCAA tournament every year. And that's my job now as a senior to make the guys coming up behind understand that going to the tournament every year just doesn't happen. You've got to earn it.