Allan Ray
Allan Ray
Allan Rayis an American professional basketball player who currently plays for Virtus Bologna of the Lega Basket Serie A. He played college basketball for four years at Villanova University. He played one seasonwith the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. Ray is known as an above average, but streaky, three-point shooter, who is skilled at creating his own shot. At 6'3" and 205 pounds, he is an average-sized guard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth17 June 1984
CountryUnited States of America
It was fun for us. For Louisville to be hitting 3s like that, it wasn't that fun. For us to be hitting it, it felt pretty good. Coming down on the other end and giving it up was kind of a bad feeling right there.
It was real hard, but it was a great learning experience. It taught us how to deal with adversity.
It was important to us to at least finish with the best record at 7-1,
They remind me of us. They didn't quit. They kept fighting. They're a tough team.
That's one thing Coach stressed early in the season, that if we're going to play four guards, we better rebound.
That is most important with our program -- defend the rebound. When you go against Boston College, you have to keep them off the offensive glass. That's most important with us when we go against bigger teams.
It was just a little pushing and shoving and words were exchanged.
It's just another game on our schedule. You can't put too much on this game.
It's just having the will to win. ...Just having faith in ourselves and believing in ourselves - that's what allowed us to pull it through.
For a freshman, that was a great play, just having the confidence to go up there and make a play like that at that time in the game. He went up and challenged him and made a great play.
It's pretty sore right now, but the doctor said it's going to be like that. You just have to do what's best. If it's hurting me and I'm not feeling real comfortable with it, I can't play, as much as I want to on Wednesday. I'm just going to take this day by day and see how it feels. If I feel I can go 100 percent, then I'm definitely going to play. If not, I'll just have to sit the game out.
They matched everything we did. We made a run. They came out and stopped it. If we missed a wide-open shot, they came down to score. The transition, they got the stops when they needed to, and they grabbed the big rebounds at the times that they did.
They have a couple of great shooters, and we have to get out and contest their shots. And they have a big guy down low that is going to be a handful.
Sometimes, you have to take the good with the bad. As long as the good outweighs the bad, then you're all right.