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
I think they thought Walter was going for the dish, but Walter was finishing. He just made that read, and Walter was good for us.
We told them to be ready, you never know what's going to happen. And they went in and did a good job.
We're playing with a lot of confidence right now.
When he's making threes, that's big for us. Teams can't sag off us in the lane.
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.
You always dreamed about getting to this point. It is big in my mind. I'm pretty excited about it.
We really understand that in order to win, we have to play together and play team ball. I think everybody's OK with that.
That's the style we play and he's going to have to adjust to that. They're going to have to adjust. The bottom line is we are going to run all night. If he is not in good enough shape, I feel bad for him.
I could have shot the ball, but when I saw he had a better shot, I just gave it up to him. I always know that he's going to be around.
I committed to Michigan because that's what everybody wanted me to do, but it wasn't what I wanted. Once I got to hang around the guys down here, I knew where I belonged.
I can't consider them a mid-major team. I don't look at them that way. They're a really good team.
All I know is that we kept coming at them.