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
He was a star before a lot of those guys were stars. We saw a tape of his eighth-grade team with Tyson Chandler and Josh Childress, and he was the best guy on the team.
He's back to being scrappy-tough, and that's the makeup of our team. When we stop doing that, we're not very good. He understands that. We need him 100 percent going hard, and he knows that.
I agree with that. We don't want to go in with a big head, but we know what we can do.
He just couldn't get in the groove tonight. I have to thank my teammates for that.
He knows I won't hesitate to pass the ball to somebody else to hit the game-winning shot. He knows I just want to win.
Guys made shots tonight. It didn't have to be a 'Brandon Roy makes shots down the stretch' night, and that's fine with me.
Some guys who go through big emotional swings like that want to transfer or drop out. But he's doing a good job of adjusting and trying to help his team win, so I think that's great.
Any time you lose three in row it gets hard to put the game away, so I took it myself to put it away.
Arizona State has some bruisers on their team and they neutralized him a little bit. But Arizona, we don't think they are as tough on the inside and we think Jon could have a big performance. We are looking forward to him just banging in there and being relentless, and eventually we think he can wear on them.
I just tried to come out tonight and play hard and get a win.
I remember sitting here last spring saying I want to leave out of here through the front door and not sneak out the back window.
Illinois is a physical team. Coach said to keep penetrating, keep trying to get to the line and open up things for the other players.
I know exactly why he did it. Because he felt like Appleby tried to elbow him.
I'm excited about it. Besides our home crowd, I've been pretty disappointed everywhere we went. I look forward to it being a high-level, high-energy game. That's part of college basketball. That's part of the experience.