Ruben Patterson
Ruben Patterson
Ruben Nathaniel Pattersonis a former American professional basketball player. During his career, he played as a small forward and shooting guard. During his college career at the University of Cincinnati, Patterson earned third-team All-American honors and helped lead the Bearcats to Conference USA titles in both of his seasons there. Drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1998, Patterson began his career with the Greek team AEK Athens BC before joining the Lakers in his rookie season. Later, he played...
coach effort guys kept team total win
It was a total team effort and the guys kept fighting. Like the coach said, if you go out there and play defense, we win games.
hard hill night
It's hard when you try to gout out there and play well every night and your season's just went down a hill from the beginning.
hustle
It's hustle and energy. That's what we do.
crazy difference establish guys half necessary nice runs team type veterans
It was kind of crazy in the first half with all the runs by each team, but we are the type of team that can do what's necessary to come out a establish control. There is a lot of difference between this team and (Portland). We have veterans and guys who compete. It's nice to be here.
game last second tired
He had a long game last night, and I think he showed he was a little tired in the second half.
good kicked loose motivated playing second
It really got me motivated when Nate got kicked out. Because we was getting cheated, man. I ain't going to get into it with the refs, they were good to me in the second half, but that kind of got us loose and started us playing well.