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
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.
air dagger game took
That was a dagger right there. When he made that, it was pretty much over. The game was still close, but that took all their air out of them.
eliminate games step ways
We have to step our games up; we have to find a way to win. We just have to find ways to play well and eliminate our mistakes.
afford dropping game games hard necessary playing
It is crazy. That's why every game is so important to us. You can't afford to be dropping games because we're not playing hard or we didn't come with the necessary intensity.
changed foul game trouble
Shaq getting in foul trouble really changed the game for us.
games last together tough
We like our chances. They (Miami) are tough but we'll go in there and give it our. The last 16 games we've put it together on all levels.
anybody basketball best concerned four games
We have four games left, and we have to play the best basketball we can. We can't be concerned with anybody else.
games losing needed painful plays
It's a very painful loss. We just weren't able to make the plays we needed to down the stretch. It's just really frustrating. We're losing these games because of one or two possessions.
beginning game playing send
It's a very big game for us, especially playing in their gym. I think we can send a message, so we have to come out energized from the beginning and get the (victory).
everybody game good hopefully momentum
It was real good game for us. Everybody got to play and hopefully we can use it for some momentum in (Wednesday's) game.
bad game losing ourselves tough
It was a real tough loss. Every game is like a must-win for us right now. We're having a bad losing streak, and we need to get ourselves out of it before we get back to Chicago.
best came efforts everybody game guys team
This is right up there as one of our best team efforts of the season, especially having guys out. Everybody who came into the game contributed, and that's what we needed.
bring crowd disappoint game problem
We just have to bring it every night, especially at home. I don't know what our problem has been, but we can't disappoint our crowd like this. We have to show up for a game like this.
bumps felt games knew rest took
We took our bumps early. Some games when you're down, you're like, 'Uh, oh,' you get nervous. I don't know about the rest of the team, but I felt like I just knew we were going to win.