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
We feel we played a great game. Not many teams can shoot 31 percent and win the game.
Like I've said before, teams are coming after us. That's why we've been in so many of these close games. Every team that plays us comes with their best.
Most teams would go, 'Oh, man!' and have their heads down. We just looked at it like it's just another obstacle we have to overcome.
Monmouth is a great defensive team or they wouldn't be here. This is the NCAA Tournament and there are a lot of great teams here. We kept our composure. We knew there were times when we weren't going to be able to score, but that's when we relied on our defense to keep us in the game.
Like coach always says, 'We play to be the best team at the end of the year.' At the end of the year, you can look back at all the accomplishments that you made. For right now, we're just going out there game-by-game. We're not trying to get all caught up in everything that's going around us.
We just feed off each other. Sometimes Randy gets it going and everyone on the team knows that and we'll try to find him. Sometimes Mike (Nardi) gets it going and we find him. Sometimes I get it going and everyone finds me.
When we jumped out on them early, we were all saying in our heads, 'We've got them exactly where we wanted them to be.' ... That was the best position you could have the No. 1 team in the country: 21-9 in the first half. We couldn't ask for anything more.
We lead in different ways. I think the team does a great job in following us. There have been times where the team has picked us up, too, and I think that's most important, that everyone is together on the team. That's what me and Randy do the most, make sure that everyone is together.
We're two different teams right now. You really can't look back.
The real good teams and the real great teams find a way to win.
We had a chance to see a lot of different styles of play and you had to adapt to the different style each team plays. That?s going to help us come tournament time because the game in the Pac-10 is different from the Big East and we know how to adapt to the different styles. I?m glad I had that opportunity.
The great teams find a way to win.
We were just like, 'Man, listen, the No. 1 team is out and it could easily happen to us. We don't want to be the ones going home. We worked too hard for it.
That's why I was hanging my head. When it first happened I was like, 'You can't be serious, not another knee injury.' That's why I was so scared. We've had a lot of knee injuries on this team and I didn't want to be another one.