Al Horford
Al Horford
Alfred Joel "Al" Horford Reynosois a Dominican professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the University of Florida, and was the starting center on the Florida Gators teams that won back-to-back NCAA national championships in 2006 and 2007. He was drafted with the third overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks, a team he played nine seasons with before joining the Celtics in 2016. He also...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth3 June 1986
CityPuerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Maybe people thought of us as a running team. Or a three-point shooting team. A no-contact team. We've changed that image.
Guys are sagging so much in the lane, especially this team. They want you to shoot three's. You can't leave a guy like Lee Humphrey wide open like that and try to sag off, and we made them pay tonight.
Having him play at this level of confidence is really big for our team.
He's a dude that will just go in before the game and get shots up. Even for an all-star game, you don't see that. He was getting shots up when everybody else was gone. You could tell he was really committed.
We were struggling on offense in the first half so I did whatever I had to do to get us going. I knew I had to get everyone fired up.
I am feeling a lot better; I'm taking care of myself drinking a lot of fluids and stuff. So I feel pretty good for the game (today).
If they (sag) off Lee, it's over. I'm passing it out to him, and he's knocking it down.
I don't feel sorry for them at all.
I'd like to win another one. We'll have to sit down and talk about everything. I think we want to win another one.
Oh yeah. If you forget, they make you run for those.
Shoot it every time, that's the way I feel about him. Good shot, bad shot, I feel like it's going in with him. ... If he has that confidence, he's going to make them for us.
Maybe we don't look like we're tough guys, but the bottom line is we get the job done. I know, Villanova was tough. They were city kids. But we're going to play our game no matter who the other team has.
We're just going to keep doing what we've been doing all year. It's the same routine. We don't really have to change anything.
I have never heard the crowd that silent here at Rupp Arena before. So it was a good feeling, but I was a little shocked at the same time.