Ben Gordon
Ben Gordon
Benjamin Ashenafi "Ben" Gordon is a British-American professional basketball player who last played for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association. Gordon played college basketball for the University of Connecticut and won a national championship with them in 2004...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth4 April 1983
consistent continue putting together
I think I'm putting together more consistent games. That's important for me right now. We need to continue to play like that.
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I think we continue to gain confidence within ourselves. We're starting to mature a little more and understand what it takes to be successful.
continue focused stay taking win
We're not taking a breath. We've got to stay focused and continue to win the games.
continue defensive doubt good key last maybe mind scoring team year
It's no doubt in my mind I can be a starter, but that's not my role. It wasn't our scoring that got us there. We didn't have any all-stars. It was our defensive intensity. That's the key to this team being successful. You got to continue to do that and we can be good as last year and maybe better.
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It's frustrating, but what are you going to do? There's no doubt about it in my mind, we can turn it around. We have a great bunch of guys. We just need to continue to grind it out.
continue defensive fourth held help plays team
If I can continue to play like this and help my team win, that's what I'll continue to do. We made defensive plays when we weren't scoring, and held them off (during the fourth quarter).
knock shot
We got a look at the hoop. We just couldn't knock the shot down.
bring chances control effort game games moment seize win
Every game our chances are getting slimmer and slimmer. We just have to seize the moment and win games that we have control over. We've got to bring our 'A' game every night. Especially our effort, we have to have the same effort consistently every night.
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Both teams got really tired out there. That's because we were playing until exhaustion. They played last night and we played last night. It really showed up in the fourth quarter.
complain gonna
What am I gonna do? Complain about it?
complain concerned help job team
What am I going to do, complain about it? I just have to go out there and do my job and try to help my team win. That's all I'm concerned about.
ball care job offensive poor taking threw
We did a poor job of taking care of the ball. There was too many times when we just just threw the ball away and we had to many offensive fouls.
doubt doubts early grind mental parts people whether worked
We had some doubts early on as to whether we'd even make the playoffs. It's been an up-and-down season. People said we weren't going to make the playoffs. It's been a mental grind and frustrating at parts of the season, but we worked through it.
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Tonight was probably our best chance to get a win on their home floor. They had D-Wade out. He was hurt for a little while. They had Shaq out with foul trouble. We just weren't able to capitalize on it.