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
Each game he's getting better. You can see it out there.
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.
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).
It's a loss, but we've got 12 more games to go and we'll make the best of it. These days, nobody is going to go unbeaten.
We're so anxious for the game to get here.
I just have to step my game up, I just have to get those rebounds - there's no other choice. I've had it all along. It's tournament time now. You feel me?
We've just got to adjust. We've seen zone before. It's all about ball movement and attacking through the middle, and I feel like as the game went on, we did a better job doing that.
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.
I mean, it was like that. We're used to playing against bigger players and stronger players. But we had to come in and just get the job done.
I knew I wasn't going to come in here and get 20 rebounds. Boxing out a guy like him is really a tough job.
Everybody was really excited, but we all know what time it is. We all know that this is just the beginning.
The best part is you always have friends around, no matter what. It's either one, two or all three of them. You always have somebody to be with or walk to class with or just hang out and talk.
That has nothing to do with it, that was last year. It is exciting to play against Villanova, and we're looking forward to it.
Against a team like this, you're going to get 10 or 15 blocks the way we play, but we know we're not going to do that against an SEC team, so it's just something that happens, I guess.