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...
chance close strong ten win
We have to close out as strong as we can. It's still a possibility, there's still a chance for us to win a Big Ten championship.
front love natural though win
You can tell he's excited. It's only natural when you come play in front of your family. We'd love to get a win for him. We know how important it can be even though he doesn't show it.
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.
defense ultimately win
It's all about defense. Defense is ultimately going to win the game.
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.
advantage focus hope main taking win
The main thing is we can't focus on what they're going through and hope we get a win out of taking advantage of that.
chance close depending hard last ourselves position possible strong sure ten
We have to close out as strong as we can. It's a chance for us to get a Big Ten championship, depending on how things go. We have to make sure we close out hard and do everything possible as much as we can to put ourselves in position in these last games.
definitely game guys motivation motivational step
We've got to get stronger. A lot of guys have got to get quicker. This is definitely a motivation game to show guys we have to step our game up another level, another notch.
early guys mistakes practice seems understanding
We're young. Mistakes come early in practice but it seems like the young guys are getting better and better at understanding things.
game plenty stick time
We just weren't finishing. But we wanted to stick with our game plan. There was plenty of time left.
competing earlier fighting happened knew past stay tough
With some of the things that happened in the past and earlier in the season, I knew we were going to go through a tough stretch. We have to stay strong. ... we can't give up. We have to keep fighting (and) keep competing every night.
along chance friend good high james lines meet talked whenever wishing
We talked about old times, about high school. James is a good friend of mine. Whenever we get a chance to meet and talk we do. So, it was along the lines of that and just wishing each other good luck.
coming energy prove
We wanted to prove something by coming out with a lot of energy.