Tyrus Thomas
Tyrus Thomas
Tyrus Wayne Thomasis an American professional basketball player who last played for Eisbären Bremerhaven of the Basketball Bundesliga. He played college basketball for Louisiana State University before being drafted fourth overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2006 NBA draft. He was then traded to the Chicago Bulls where he went on to play three and a half seasons when in February 2010, he was traded to the Charlotte Bobcats...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth17 August 1986
CityBaton Rouge, LA
began campus couple experience helped point pull realized shared team
That was one of the times that the team began to really pull together, because we realized that at any point that could have been our campus that was hit. We helped out, and a couple of us shared tears. It was an eye-opening experience for us.
means school
It means a lot for the school as whole, the state, the city.
basketball displaced orleans people traveled
It's just basketball. But as we traveled around this season, we had a lot of people come up to us ? displaced people who are from New Orleans ? and they tell us that we make them happy.
hard hurts sit
It was hard to sit out. It just hurts to sit out. There is no way to get used to it.
close media nine realize until
I didn't realize that I was so close to a triple-double until I got to the media room. I had no idea I had nine blocks.
coaches knew
You said I was on nobody's radar. That's other people's fault. I knew what I could do. Coaches knew what I could do.
besides challenge feels fight mental physical
Besides the physical pain, it's also going to be a mental challenge for me to come out and fight through how it feels every day.
call leave man soldiers
Sometimes we call each other soldiers. And soldiers never leave a man behind.
man
Let them think what they want. Like my big man said, we are still hungry, we still have a lot more to prove.
flame lost national program ready supposed
They used to be a powerhouse program. I know they have 11 national championships. They lost their flame for a little bit, but now it's back burning. We've got to be ready to play because they're going to try to put their program back where it's supposed to be.
woke
It kind of woke us up. It could have been any of us.
full good head noticing people shot stutter toward
People are noticing I'm a good shot blocker. I used to see people going full throttle toward the goal. Now, I see more head fakes and stutter steps.
head saw trying
When I saw him with his head down trying to dribble, I went over. With .5 I had the ball.
final
Yeah, we did it. Final Four! No one thought we would.