Tayshaun Prince
Tayshaun Prince
Tayshaun Durell Princeis an American professional basketball player who is a free agent. The 6'9" small forward graduated from Dominguez High School before playing college basketball for the University of Kentucky. He was drafted 23rd overall by the Detroit Pistons in the 2002 NBA draft and went on to win a championship with the team in 2004...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth28 February 1980
CityCompton, CA
bit early executing fourth games gotten great hitting lazy quarter season second shots slow terms tonight
Early in games we've gotten off to slow starts, but tonight we got off to a great start. In the second quarter we kind of got lazy a little bit and they capitalized on it. But the fourth quarter has been our quarter early in the season in terms of hitting our shots and executing our plays, and that's something that we did tonight.
ball boston came great hitting job move moving second unit
In the first quarter, we didn't move the ball and Boston did a great job of hitting shots. The second unit came in and Chauncey got the ball moving for them and got all of them involved.
attacking looked second team tired
They looked a little tired in the second half. Once we started attacking them, they just looked like a team with tired legs.
giving lift second unit
That second unit has been great. We aren't giving them a lift at all.
beginning fourth game jump legs plays recovered second strong third tired wind
They recovered strong from our beginning of the game and really made some plays happen. One thing we wanted to do was try to jump on them early, but at the same time, some of the guys' legs got tired very quickly. Once we got our second wind in the third and fourth quarters, we were fine.
bell confused good guy job pick playing rip sat saw score screens switching
I thought Raja Bell did a good job of playing Rip a different way every time. You got a guy that can score off screens like Rip, you can't do the same thing every time. He'll pick you apart. They did a good job of switching things up. It kind of confused Rip for a minute. I think when he went and sat down and saw how he was playing defense, when he went back in there, he made some adjustments.
anxious easy fast free great missed normally word
I think we were anxious. Anxious is a great word for that. We missed some easy baskets, missed some free throws, made turnovers on the fast break, things like that, some things we normally don't do.
anxious easy free great missed normally settled word
I think anxious is a great word for that. We missed some easy baskets and some free throws...things we don't normally do. But once we settled down, we were fine.
drive hope looks pick rhythm tonight tried
That was just pick your poison. What you want to do is just let him get his rhythm out 20, 22-feet out away from the basket, or make him drive and hope that we'll be there to help. I think tonight we just tried not to let him get any looks from the perimeter.
amaze anybody capable
It doesn't amaze me. It doesn't amaze anybody on our team, because we know what he's capable of doing.
athletic guys hopefully mix problem quick
We like man-to-man. But with the long, athletic guys we have, and the quick athletic guys we have, hopefully it shouldn't be a problem for us to mix it up. But it'll be something new for us, and we'll see how it works.
coming court played playing quickly whenever worried
We were just worried about coming out here and playing tonight. Whenever you play how we played in Utah, you just want to get up the court as quickly as possible.
easy floor natural points presents scores stuff
What he presents on the floor is unusual. He scores from so many different areas, points come easy to him; rebounds, points, all that stuff comes so easily, so natural to him. It's like no other.
crowd lead plays respond tied took whenever
Whenever they took the lead or tied it up and got the crowd into the game, we made some plays to put the crowd out of it. They would make another run, and we would respond again.