Alando Tucker
Alando Tucker
Alando Forest Tuckeris an American professional basketball player, currently playing for Maccabi Kiryat Gat of the Israeli Premier League. Tucker played five seasons at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and wore the number 42...
closing great guys heck plays rebound saw step
They did a great job; everyone saw it. Just closing out the game, for them to step up and rebound and make big plays defensively, that's what we need. If we're going to be a great team, you need that, and those two guys did a heck of a job.
defense great playing rattled staying
They were playing great defense and it kind of rattled us. We weren't staying focused. We weren't staying relaxed.
performance shooting worst
That has to be the worst shooting performance that I've ever seen.
great honor individual named teammates thanks wonderful
It's great to be named All-Big Ten, it's a wonderful honor. It's all thanks to my team, because if it wasn't for my teammates I wouldn't get any accolades. It's not an individual award, it's a team award.
defense ultimately win
It's all about defense. Defense is ultimately going to win the game.
coming crowd media pick saw size trying wearing
We were trying to size them up. We didn't want to come out too fast. We saw where we were wearing them down. That's where we wanted to pick it up coming out of the media timeout. We really wanted to get the crowd into it and use it to our advantage.
bounce good jump knew loss recover taking tough
We knew we were going to jump back into the Big Ten. It was tough taking that loss but you can't think about it. That's one of the things we've been doing so good as a team. We've been able to recover and bounce back really well.
crucial game good milwaukee resemble start
Those are crucial minutes. We wanted to get a good start because we didn't want this game to resemble the Milwaukee game.
faces home lose realize
You look at their faces after a loss, it's tough. You lose one at home in the Big Ten, it's always tough. You have to realize that this is still early.
When a team's making a run, you've got to be able to respond.
cut guys seeing seemed time touched
They never stopped. Every time it seemed like I made a cut or touched (the ball), I was seeing two or more guys coming.
close clutch confidence couple games handled knock last lately minutes playing shots situations totally
That's why I have a lot of confidence still. It's not like we're just playing totally bad. We have to be able to close out games when it's getting tough, when it's getting down to the last couple of minutes and being able to knock shots down. Clutch situations lately we haven't handled very well.
coming concentration games win
That's how you win games - if you're attacking, aggressive. That was a big concentration coming into the game.
attack saw watched win
That's how you win games, if you attack and you're aggressive. The Northwestern game, we watched that and saw where we had a lot of opportunities where we could (have) and we didn't attack.