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
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.
There was not much we could do (last season) because it wasn't our team. It was frustrating at times because we wanted to push the ball. (Anthony) Roberson and Matt Walsh just wanted to walk ... it ... up. I loved playing with those guys but it was frustrating at times.
They were leaving the wrong guy open. When you leave Lee, he's going to make you pay for it.
He was hurt so bad. That's my guy, and I've really got a lot of love for him. A lot of other guys would have quit, but he didn't quit for us. He was going hard.
He was hurt so bad. A lot of other guys would have quit.
How can you overlook them? They went to the Sweet 16 last year, they've got all their guys coming back and we can't overlook them.
I feel like our guys just figured it out. They figured out that they had to go after loose balls and finish out possessions.
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 knew I wasn't going to come in here and get 20 rebounds. Boxing out a guy like him is really a tough job.
With Lee going down, it's going to require Walter and David to step up and I feel like they are going to be able to do it. It's all about staying together and fighting through things together. We're going through some adversity, but I feel like it's a good time for us to come closer. We've got to stay together.
These days, there's nobody that's going to go unbeaten probably. There's too many good teams, so we're just trying to be the best we can be.
It would be great for (Donovan), our program and for the University of Florida to win a national championship. Our coaches have worked so hard, and we really want to give them this win.
Each game he's getting better. You can see it out there.
We didn't need an exclamation point. We'd already done it.