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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 feel like our guys just figured it out. They figured out that they had to go after loose balls and finish out possessions.
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.
I'm going to try to just go around him and use my quickness.