Al Harrington
Al Harrington
Albert "Al" Harringtonis an American professional basketball player who last played for the Sydney Kings of the National Basketball League. Selected with 25th overall pick in the 1998 NBA draft, Harrington played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Associationfor the Indiana Pacers, Atlanta Hawks, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets, Orlando Magic and Washington Wizards. He also spent a short stint with the Fujian Sturgeons of the Chinese Basketball Association...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth17 February 1980
CityOrange, NJ
We just want our goal to be to double our win total from last year. Over these last five games, we have to find a way to win two or three of them. I think that is our focus right now and to continue to get better as a team going into next year.
They always play hard. Every time we cut it close, they would come down the next three or four possessions and get exactly the shot they wanted. They really execute well.
Believe it or not, when it left my hand, it felt good.
We had way too many days off. We lost our rhythm. We lost our feel.
That was big because I let my team down (in the last game). I just had to come on -- be more aggressive and produce.
(Williams) played well, and he got it done for them. He hit all the big shots, got into the paint when he needed to, to find guys and get easy looks. He did a good job tonight.
I wish we played them 80 times this year. That's a great team over there, but for some reason we just out played them. We got the sweep but now we have to move on and win this game on Friday (against the Nets).
We could not put the ball in the hole, but the biggest thing is we did not get any stops defensively. We had the lead once again and they turned it up a little bit, but we went the other way.
(Hawks GM) Billy Knight told me I'm not going anywhere, so mentally that's where I'm at now. I'm not thinking about it at all. He said if there's something that comes along, something that he's thinking about doing, I'll be the first to know before he does it.
I don't think you guys realize sometimes how connected we really are in that locker room. We are a family. We lost a brother. The only consolation we have is that he left us making sure no one can ever say a bad thing about him, because Jason was such a good person.
I got the call when I was getting into my car. I can't (pretend); I cried like a baby. I cried as soon as I got in the car. Then I called my mom. When you realize you're never going to see somebody again, it hits you. We'll never see him again.
(We want to) give the fans something to look forward to next year. We're going to be a much better team, and we are going to be scratching and clawing our way into the playoffs next year.
We kind of got disoriented by not running our stuff. But we came out and played the way we're supposed to in the second half.
We owe these guys because one time in the year, they beat us pretty bad. Other than that, we were in close games with them and down the stretch, they would out-execute us.