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
They were physical. They were banging me. I came off screens and they were grabbing me.
They were physical, they were banging me. Coming off screens, they were grabbing me. It was one of those games.
It's important that we step up and be seniors and lead this team, and this was the best job we've done of that all season.
It's a matter of how much they accept him. I can't see him coming up here, I think it would be tough for him to show his face. If I did that to an Oregon player and walked into their gym in the summer, people would wonder what I was doing there.
It's different. Last year, our chemistry was extremely high. You see it now, there are stretches where we don't have a lot of chemistry.
It's awesome that top players from the state of Washington with a year difference in age are considered top players in the country. That says a lot for the state and how we've come along as basketball players. When I was a kid, I dreamed about this.
There are no Americans or Morgan States in the Pac-10.
When I was a kid I dreamed about this. It's an incredible honor to be recognized nationally like this.
What makes it hard for us is that we're used to playing a fast-paced game and they're used to slowing it down. When we play each other it's a really awkward game. It's a battle of who imposes their game plan on the other one. They're a tough team to play against. You never look forward to playing them.
We're just hoping to take care of business, and if we finish strong, we'll be fine.
We're still kind of kicking ourselves for those two losses at home. But we got two really big wins on the road and now we've got to go back and defend our home court, like we usually do.
The refs could have called a foul every time down the court on both teams.
We'll be fine. We've just got to get ready for the tournament now. This is what we played all season for is this moment. The next game we lose, I'm done, so I have to make sure I go out and know that we gave it our all and we lost instead of saying we played bad in the second half. We don't want to go out with a bad taste in our mouth. I'm just looking forward to getting to the tournament and making a special run. I think we still can.
We're ready to try to get this monkey off our back. We got one monkey off our back with the Gonzaga win, so hopefully we can do it again.