Rasual Butler
Rasual Butler
Rasual Butleris an American professional basketball player who last played for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association. He has previously played for the Miami Heat, New Orleans Hornets, Los Angeles Clippers, Chicago Bulls, Toronto Raptors, Indiana Pacers, Washington Wizards and San Antonio Spurs. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in the Point Breeze area of South Philadelphia...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth23 May 1979
CityPhiladelphia, PA
bit bumps crowd feed gives goose home jump run
When we are at home and the crowd is going, we run just a little bit faster, jump a little bit higher. This crowd was so electrifying, it gives you goose bumps at times and as a young team, we feed off that.
couple defense gave good guys job looking opportunity reading run time
Once I made a couple of shots, guys started looking for me. When it was my opportunity to run off some screens, I think I did a pretty good job of reading where the defense was going and gave myself some time to get off some shots.
felt help left team
It felt really good. It's something that I'll think about - that I was able to help this team get one (victory) before we left this city.
against coach continue days drives good job last open worked
I didn't do a good job against Denver. So the last two days I worked on my stroke. Coach (Byron Scott) told me to continue to take my shots. I had a lot of open 3-pointers and some open drives to the basket.
crowd crowds loud loudest
With that loud crowd out there, I think we're going to have one of the loudest crowds in the NBA, if not the loudest.
believe definitely needed win
We definitely wanted to the win for this city. But we also needed to end this streak. We really believe we can make the playoffs.
ball chance everybody expand good guy opportunity passes saw shooting shoots specific team
You play for a good team like that, everybody has a specific job, ... If you're a guy who shoots well, that's all you do. If you're a guy who passes the ball well, that's what you do. But I saw this opportunity with the Hornets as something different, not just to be a shooting specialist, but having a chance to expand my game.
david good luckily rhythm saw shooter swung west
They had to rotate to David West because he is such a good shooter from 17 feet. But once they rotated, he saw me and swung it to me in rhythm and luckily for us, I was ... able to make the shot.
kept knocked plays wind
There were a lot of plays that knocked the wind out of them. We kept them at a distance.
couple hit knew
After I hit my first couple of shots, I knew I had it going a little bit.
defend players
I want be someone that they know will defend them, ... They're all one-on-one players who come at you every night.
crowd definitely great support
We had great crowd support. I think that it definitely had something to do with it.
allow chris david defense extend guys hit knock open operate paul role room shots tonight understand west
I was a little surprised. But I understand my role on this team. I extend the defense and allow guys like David West room to operate down low and Chris Paul and Speedy Claxton to penetrate. When they get you open looks, it's up to me to knock shots down, and tonight I hit them.
coming crashed fighting fights-and-fighting hard high left riding scratched since victory wins
We were riding high and then the thing crashed on us a little bit. We've been fighting ever since and because we were working so hard to get these wins and coming up short, it was devastating. But ... we've still got a lot of fight left in us and we scratched and clawed our way to a victory tonight.