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
catch difference found hard playing
We found that streak, and we just started playing hard defensively. That's the difference we should play every night. We need to catch it.
catch chance last
Right now, we're in last chance -- last chance to catch the train.
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.
pay
They just out-played us, out-hustled us and out-rebounded us. We just didn't pay any attention.
avoid floor leave trying
I'm trying to avoid it. We're going to leave it in the organization ? coaches, owners. We're the players. Our job, go on the floor and play the game.
game heads keeping
This was very important for us. We're still alive. We are keeping our heads in the game and in the race.
cold confident felt free technique throw tonight
Everything was right, everything about my technique was good. Sometimes when you're shooting, you feel a little cold and that's a factor. But tonight I just felt confident at the free throw line.
ball executing hot matt trying
Matt was the only one who was executing our offense. He was hot and we were just trying to get the ball in his hands.
coach good job mad ourselves picking second
Of course, coach was mad and everyone understands. We can't play like this. I think we did a pretty good job of picking ourselves up in the second half.
energy except focusing fourth good held job lots portland quarter
I wouldn't say we had lots of energy but we did a pretty good job on concentrating and focusing on the game, and we held down Portland defensively except for the fourth quarter when Zach Randolph started scoring. I think we held them good. Offensively, we just executed well and didn't give them any chance.
article girls hotel lining outside
When this article comes out, girls will be lining up outside his hotel door.
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.
further good lost win
It's good to win one because if we lost we would have been even further back.
fought trying
They fought us. They didn't give up. Zach Randolph was trying to win.