Antawn Jamison
Antawn Jamison
Antawn Cortez Jamisonis an American retired professional basketball player who played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels, when he was named national player of the year in 1998. He was selected by the Toronto Raptors in the first round with the fourth overall pick of the 1998 NBA draft before being traded to the Golden State Warriors for former Tar Heel teammate Vince Carter. Jamison was named to the...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth12 June 1976
CityShreveport, LA
That's the way we have to play, and we know it.
Our Achilles has been the beginning of the third quarter and the last five minutes of the game. But we did a good job of keeping our composure today. We stayed focused and stayed positive.
I think it's a slap in the face for people to say that we're not going to be a good playoff team because Larry's gone. We didn't make the playoffs last season because of one player.
Gilbert told me going into the second half, 'You can't do anything if you don't let it ride,'? He shouldn't have to tell me that.
Gilbert, Caron and myself have got it going offensively. We know that night in and night out that we can do it offensively, it's just that on the defensive end we have to really give the effort 100 percent and really make it tough on our opponents. Once we do that, we really put ourselves in position to win games.
From Day 1 to now, it's a testament to how much he loves the game and wants to be the best.
He's hands-down the best player on this team, and hands down a top-five guard in this league. But still, you get the feeling he's flying under the radar.
He's done everything that you ask an All-Star to do. It was definitely disappointing for his peers not to recognize the job he's been doing, pretty much being one of the best guards, not only in the East, but in the NBA.
He didn't really look to look for his teammates as often as he did in the first two games. I think he really took this game personally and he wanted to really come out and play well.
Guys just got tired of not playing up to our standards and not finding ways to win basketball games.
He'd rather go bowling on a Friday night than go out to the club and party with his boys.
When we first left, I think the most important thing was to come back and play well, like, 'You should have kept me around,' or 'You should have re-signed me. After that, it's just a point where you want to win, and we were fortunate enough to get the win, but also play pretty good games individually.
We know what our crowd is going to do. It's going to be fun.
We know what Juan is capable of doing when he starts to feel it. We know he is going to be in the mind frame to show people why we should have kept him.