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 crowd destiny disappoint problem rest
We still have our destiny in our own hands; we just have to bring it every night, especially at home. I don't know what our problem has been. We can't come and disappoint our crowd like this. For the rest of the season, we've got to show up in games.
problem
We didn't come to play. I don't know what our problem is. We've got to show up for games.
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.
bringing hands home quit start
Things are still in our own hands but we will have to start bringing it every night, especially at home where we have to quit disappointing our home fans.
people
Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1.
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.
days decided throw wear
I usually don't wear those. It was one of those days I decided to throw them on.
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.
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.
mental
We had mental lapses all over the place.
energy fought leveled start
We had a lot of energy to start the game, but then we just leveled off. We fought all the way to the end, but just couldn't get the win.
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.
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.
lapse mental worst
We can't come out and have all these lapses. If they get two, at worst we're going into overtime. It was just a mental lapse on our part.