Josh McRoberts
Josh McRoberts
Joshua Scott "Josh" McRobertsis an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. McRoberts, a 6 ft 10 inpower forward, played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils. He was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 37th overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth28 February 1987
CityIndianapolis, IN
academic athletic atmosphere coaching college continue decision develop duke excited forward further looking love major played receives relationships return role skills staff support university
I am very excited about my decision to return to Duke to continue my academic and athletic career. I love the atmosphere at Duke and the support the university receives from the community. There is no place better to play college basketball. I am looking forward to working with the coaching staff to further develop my skills as a player. The relationships that I have in place here played a major role in my decision.
guys situations
We've got some guys that have been in situations like that before.
great involved playing tournament
The ACC tournament is a big deal. It's great to be involved in and it's great to be playing on Sunday.
decision excited major played relationships return role
I am very excited about my decision to return to Duke. The relationships that I have in place here played a major role in my decision.
double full time
I don't even think we had a full double on. But it's like I've been in the right place at the right time some, I guess.
guy sets worked
When they went to the zone, it worked well for the sets we were in. And when you have a guy like J.J. around ...
feeling madison played square taste texas type
We got a taste of that type of atmosphere, that type of feeling when we played Texas in Madison Square Garden.
kindness quick respond run
We got a quick lift, but then we kind of let up. We had our run, and then they had theirs. We didn't respond to their run as well as they had responded to ours.
best easy hear player thick wants
You have to have a thick skin. Obviously, he wants us to be the best player we can be. ... He's not going to sugarcoat things for you. He's going to tell you the truth. It's not always easy to hear the truth.
cave lost straight team teams took
Those were big days. We had lost two straight and we're not used to losing, so you could go one way or the other. I don't think this team would ever give up, but I think a lot of teams could say, 'We lost two straight to end the season' and could kind of cave in. But we kind of took it the other way and wanted to improve.
best game knew stronger
We knew that we didn't play our best game the other night. We knew we had to come back and play stronger tonight.
great level obviously program takes
The expectations are obviously very high, but I think that's what makes it a high-level program and the level it takes to be great every day.
containing defense good knew playing relying
We knew we weren't playing good defense for awhile, and it had to get better. We weren't containing people, and we weren't relying on each other.
knew
We knew they were going to make a comeback, I don't even think we let up.