Andrei Kirilenko
Andrei Kirilenko
Andrei Gennadyevich Kirilenkois a Russian-American former professional basketball player, currently the Commissioner of the Russian Basketball Federation. At age fifteen, Kirilenko began playing professional basketball in the Russian Basketball Super League. He spent three years with CSKA Moscow from 1998 to 2001, winning the Russian league MVP award in 2000...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth19 February 1981
CityIzhevsk, Russia
crunch hit hits knows last lots
Everyone knows that Mehmet can hit the 3, especially in crunch time. Lots of games, he hits the last shot.
further good lost win
It's good to win one because if we lost we would have been even further back.
ball beat denver fast forced forget push run worked
We started to push the ball and beat Denver at their game. They like to run a lot and sometimes they forget about defense. So we kind of forced them to get back with fast attack. I think it worked well.
fourth game opportunity quarter tremendous
We had an opportunity to keep (the lead), but Dirk had a tremendous game and in the fourth quarter he just killed us.
couple games moving previous stayed terrific tonight
We stayed with our game. A couple of the previous games we were terrible, but tonight we did a terrific job. We were happy, we were moving and rolling.
fought trying
They fought us. They didn't give up. Zach Randolph was trying to win.
ball broke fighting forced game half playing pushed third zone
I think we forced them to play our game in the third quarter. The first half was kind of just fighting back and forth. Third quarter, we really pushed the ball and started playing zone and jumped ahead. I think we kind of broke them in the third quarter.
offense playing putting rebounds rushing seconds
I think we just started rushing at the end and putting up a lot of jumpers. They were getting rebounds and playing 24 seconds of offense each possession.
defense fast playing stopping
I think we just started playing defense the way we should play it. We just started stopping them on the fast break.
good job orlando seattle team though tough
I think we did a pretty good job as a team tonight. Especially after those kind of tough nights, the Seattle (loss on Sunday) and the Orlando game, even though we got a 'W,' it was frustrating in the end.
effort establish everybody good helping job lead second williams
I think everybody did a good job helping each other out in the first half, not only Carlos, Mehmet, and myself. I would say that (rookie Deron Williams ) and Kris Humphries were also very helpful. It was a good effort all-around and we were able to establish a comfortable lead for the second half.
good orlando point
He's great. Orlando has got a good point guard.
pay
They just out-played us, out-hustled us and out-rebounded us. We just didn't pay any attention.
beginning crowd felt game happy help huge playoff stayed stretch tough
I felt that this game was a playoff game. This crowd was a huge help for them (the Hornets). I'm very happy that we stayed as a team. Even when we had a tough stretch at the beginning we still stayed together.