Greg Smith
Greg Smith
NBA player most famous as a member of the Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks. He was previously named WAC Freshman of the Year for the 2009-10 season at Fresno State University.
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth8 January 1991
CityVallejo, CA
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Our guards did a great job of getting the ball to Mike at the beginning, which is what you want to do with a guy shooting 56 percent from the field. But then Mt. Carmel started to apply more defense to the help side and we started to force it inside and weren't patient enough.
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We wanted to go at them, but if we were open on the outside, I had no problem with us taking the 3. But we were cold outside, and our big guys went away from the basket when they got the ball inside (against Hale's 2-3 zone defense). We just played scared.
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The ball blinks, and it's hard to see. It's like staring at a strobe light.
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I don't know what happened to us offensively. It's been a problem for us all year, taking care of the ball and taking good shots. Obviously, we didn't do that today.
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It was important to get going early on. Last time, we started slow and we didn't shoot the ball well. The difference tonight was defense, not giving them open shots and containing Johann (Jones) as best we could.
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Rodney was really active inside. He was keeping balls alive and giving us second and third chances.
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We spread things around pretty good, especially in the first quarter.
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I would be hard-pressed to say it's not going to be more difficult to raise money after all the money raised for Katrina, not to mention the tsunami. People only have a certain amount of money to give to charity. When it's gone, they don't have more to give.
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Legal deals were struck. It's pretty clear the treaties as a group oblige the U.S. government to provide services, especially when it comes to things like education and health care.
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I see it as an assault on the entire liquor industry by neo-prohibitionists.
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I saw those ads, I felt a little uneasy. I understood it was tongue in cheek. But it's still not necessarily in the best interest.
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Our spirits just got down early tonight. Every time we came back down the court offensively after they scored, we thought we had to make four points and just rushed things.
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We were getting frustrated offensively, and it felt to us from a coach's perspective that we were giving in on the defensive end.
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We were sluggish the first half, especially defensively. We were giving them too many open looks. We challenged the guys at halftime to play harder, and we did play with better energy.