Zam Fredrick
Zam Fredrick
Zambolist "Zam" Fredrick, Sr.is a retired American professional basketball player. He spent his professional career playing in Italy from 1981 to 1987 after graduating college from the University of South Carolina in 1981. Although Fredrick played in Europe, he is best known in the United States for leading NCAA Division I in scoring as a senior in 1980–81 with a 28.9 points per game average...
exactly game knew situations worked
Oh, I reamed them out pretty good, because like I said we worked too hard. We knew exactly what we wanted to do. And the game was really progressing the way we thought it would. But we weren't capitalizing on the situations we had.
tried
Sometimes he just doesn't feel like doing stuff. I told him, 'You can't feel like that.' And I tried to tell him in a way where he'd respond.
capable coach father game knows nation people prove taught
I know what I'm capable of doing and the people that taught me the game like my father and coach Hewitt, he recruited me, so he knows what I'm capable of doing. I just have to go out there and prove it on this level. I just want to play. I want to show the nation and the world that I'm capable of doing big things.
decisions situations
Situations like this, you have to make your own decisions to be where you want to be and do what you want to do. This is my career, and I've got to live with it.
dictate score seems
Seems like when I score early, I play better. I can't let that dictate how I play.
hour maybe talked
We talked for a long time, maybe an hour or an hour-and-a-half. And it was all about basketball.
best felt guys needed pull slow
We needed to slow it down. I felt the best thing to do was to pull our guys back.
came forced half second style
We came out in the second half and reasserted ourselves. We started to play our style and forced them into turnovers. We forced them to play like we wanted to.
beat good happens mindset next
We didn't play a good game, but we still showed we could beat them. Our mindset is to play much better and see what happens next time.
drought free hit hitting period second
We hit a drought in the second period and Buford started hitting its free throws.
hoping
We were hoping to get away early, but we were unpleasantly surprised.
difficulty great knew overcome passing shots
We had difficulty with their zone, but we got some shots and they weren't going down for us. (The Tigers) play great defense. They get out into the passing lanes all the time, and we knew that but couldn't overcome it.