Tarence Kinsey
Tarence Kinsey
Tarence Anthony Kinseyis an American professional basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Premier League. Standing at 6'6", he plays the shooting guard and small forward positions...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth21 March 1984
burns half huge lead leave mentality second
That burns us up inside. That was a huge lead to have over a team. Right now we have the mentality to come out in the second half and just leave it on the line.
beginning defense ourselves playing prove trying year
I think we've been guarding better, playing better defense and rebounding better. We didn't prove ourselves at the beginning of the year and we're trying to make up for it now.
motivated seemed team
You just get so motivated to play a team like Florida. Everyone just seemed to be on the same page.
aggression built leave mean
That don't mean anything in tournaments. We've got a lot of aggression built up. ... Let's leave it at that.
coaches developed feels heads last putting toughness year
It feels good. Last year we were one-and-done, but I think right now we developed some toughness that we don't want to lose. The coaches keep putting it in our heads that we're champions, play like champions.
anybody chance gone good season though win
We think we've got as good a chance as anybody to win it. Even though the season hasn't gone like we wanted, we know we can play with anybody. We're going in there with the idea that we can win it.
coming hype publicity stuff team
Truthfully, I think we play better under the radar. Coming into this game, there was a lot of hype and publicity and stuff that I think this team probably right now we don't need.
everybody gotten jackets type unity
Usually, when we travel, we used to have our jackets zipped up. We'd gotten away from that. It was a unity type thing, to let everybody know there are no individuals.
afford bring lose
We know, right now, we've got to bring our A-game. We can't have an A-minus because we can't afford to lose anything.
everybody lose tournament until win
We want to make it through the tournament. Everybody can be in the tournament, but you're not really in the tournament until you win a game. We know right now that if we lose we go home.
gets
When he gets going, you have to. He just gets wild.
dwell games time
But we can't dwell on that. We just have to take games one at a time and see what we can do.
basketball game runs
Basketball is a game of runs. We had had some runs, but they had more runs and better runs than we did.
basketball easily everybody game points respond run start
Basketball is a game of runs. Everybody can easily run off 10 or 12 points real quick. It is just how we respond when they start going on a run.