Raja Bell
Raja Bell
Raja Bellis an American retired professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association. He was twice named to the NBA All-Defensive Team in his career...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth19 September 1976
CitySaint Croix, VI
obviously watch
You never know what he's going to do. You can watch him on film, and obviously everyone has their tendencies. But you really never know what he's going to do.
board drawing
I don't know. We'll have to go back to the drawing board and see what we can get done for Sunday.
minutes offense seven shoot time worry
You know that your time is going to come. It's an offense where you shoot it and if you miss, you won't have to worry about going seven minutes before you shoot it again.
bear grin guys man similar superstars time today understand
I don't know, man. It's tough. Just understand that your time will come. A lot of guys who are superstars today went through similar situations, so you just have to grin and bear it.
floor good high knocked nice percentage playing running shoot understand
Its always nice to shoot a high percentage but I think we have to understand why we were able to shoot a high percentage - our floor spacing was awesome, we were running the floor and really playing unselfish. You're not going to shoot that well every night, we got to understand why we knocked them down, and that's a good thing to take away from the game.
expected
I'm a little surprised, yeah. I don't know that I would've expected us to be in first with that record.
everybody four game involved knows seen win year
I think everybody knows who's going to show up. I think he's going to come out and be more aggressive. There's no guesswork involved with that. We've seen that four times this year and every other game he's played. So we game-planned it. We'll do what we need to do to get another win at home.
knew
If we lost, we knew we were going to go out swinging.
becomes game high size teams trap
If we can play the way we want to play, we can do it without (size). But if teams trap us into their game or take us out of fours, that's when size becomes a factor. It's important for us to keep it at a high tempo.
guard high people percentage reason shot tough
The reason we shot a high percentage is what I think is important. We were able to space. We were very unselfish, and we were out in transition. When we do that, it's tough for people to guard us.
everybody good translated
We've pitched in by committee, and it's translated into everybody having a good year.
battle deal engage hope rest score series shoot somebody team understand
We were going to try to engage him in a 1-on-1 battle and let him shoot as many times (as) he wanted and hope that the rest of his team won't be able to help, and that's what happened. In a series like this, you have to understand that and be professional enough to be able to deal with somebody who can score that much.
best came defense eddie locked quarters second seen team third
We are a team of spurts. Eddie really came in and got us going in the second quarter. We really locked down on defense in the third quarter. I thought that was one of the best quarters of defense I've seen this team play all year.
definitely excited healthy last piece puzzle ready sure
We're excited about what we have already, but we feel getting that last piece of the puzzle will put us over the hump. We want to make sure that he's healthy and ready to give us everything he can give us. We're definitely excited to get him back in the lineup, without a doubt.