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...
ball minute player screen
You never know what to look for. The minute that you think they're going on a screen they backdoor you. ... Their passes, they put the ball there before the player is there. They keep you on your heels.
chance close depending happen hopefully ourselves position strong ten
You never know what's going to happen in the Big Ten. We have to close out as strong as we can. There's still a possibility for us to get a Big Ten championship, depending on how things go. We just have to do everything we can to put ourselves in position to hopefully have a chance to win.
coach confidence gets tells
Defensively, his confidence is really growing. Everything coach tells him he gets done.
Definitely. I could breathe. It didn't feel like I had windshield wipers.
name opportunity player scare team win
The name of a team doesn't scare me. The name of a player doesn't scare me. It's an opportunity for us to win a ballgame.
closing floor
They're two freshmen, but they're out on the floor closing out the game.
closing confidence floor freshmen shows
They're two freshmen but they're out on the floor closing out a game. It just shows the confidence that he's got (in them).
confident course environment felt good season stuck
I was confident in what we had done over the course of the season that we were going to get in. I felt good about it. It's just that you're anxiously awaiting to see where you're going, what environment you're going to get stuck in.
few guys hard hard-work motivation past pays work worked younger
I think it's motivation to show these younger guys that hard work pays off, to show that what we've been doing in these past few years has worked. And if it's worked in the past, it can work in the present.
coming emotional involved
He said he doesn't get involved in all the hoopla and everything before, but you can see that he got emotional coming out of the game.
alter dunk figured step
He didn't look like he was going to dunk it, so I figured I could just step in and try to alter his shot.
confidence excuses losing losses showing start talked
We talked after the game, but that's enough talking. We just have to go out there and get it done now. We can't say anything else about it. Everybody's been making excuses about the losses that we have (after) losing Greg and Marcus, but with my teammates, I have a lot of confidence in them. I think they have confidence in themselves, too. We just have to start showing it now.
figured knew offense running stay stick
Stay poised. We knew they were going to get up. We just figured if we stick together, keep running our offense and don't get rattled, we could still come out with a win.
coming emotional game great
It was his day. He even said he kind of got emotional. You could tell he got emotional coming out of the game, and even before the game started. It's great to see that.