Brandon Roy
Brandon Roy
Brandon Dawayne Roy is an American retired professional basketball player who played for the Portland Trail Blazers and Minnesota Timberwolves in the National Basketball Association. He was selected sixth in the 2006 NBA draft, having completed four years playing for the Washington Huskies. His nickname was "B-Roy", but he was also referred to as "The Natural" by Trail Blazers announcer Brian Wheeler. On December 10, 2011, Roy announced his retirement from basketball due to a degenerative knee condition, though he...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth23 July 1984
CitySeattle, WA
I feel terrible for him. They were having a real good season, and he was a huge part of it. I always enjoy playing against USC at its best.
To me, I'm just really happy we played a great game and picked up a big sweep down here on the road. Right now we're just playing really good basketball.
We've got a lot of experience. When I was a sophomore, we were just excited to be there. Last year, being a one-seed, we just wanted to live up to expectations. This season is fun because no one is really saying much about us. We have the chance to go in there and surprise some people. We almost get to play the underdog role.
When Justin made that four-point play, that gave us the confidence to believe we could win the game.
When I was dreaming, this is exactly what I dreamed about, but it's tough to accomplish these things.
We had a chance to do something special. We feel we had a good chance to go to the Final Four. But I look at it, if it didn't happen, it wasn't meant to be.
We had a big lead and I think we just got content with trying to outscore them and not play defense and get stops. Part of it was me. I missed a lot of shots down the stretch. ... I made those shots at the end but I missed a lot that could have let us keep the lead. I'm disappointed in myself.
We got kind of frustrated. A couple of charge calls didn't go our way.
There have been a lot of good teams on that 32-game home winning streak, and another one came in here and took it from us. It is the only way it should end, it shouldn't end with us losing by 15 or us losing to a bad team.
It's too early to say that, but I think we can do it.
It's the only way to end (the streak). It shouldn't end by losing by 15 or losing to a bad team. It was a good team. This was the way to go out if we had to.
That's special the way that team beat us and broke our record at home. So it was good to come in here and spoil their Senior Night.
It was a play where I pass it to the right post and they were supposed to, on the opposite side, set a screen for Mike (Jensen). But the play got messed up as I was watching. I was like, 'Oh, wow, I've got to shoot this one,' because no one was popping out and everybody looked a little confused.
It was a matter of who was going to make the most plays down the stretch. We did a better job at that than they did.