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
It makes it a lot smoother. At the beginning of the game, it's more my time. Then when Jamaal comes in, I can kind of concentrate on other areas and it's more his time.
It made me see the other side of life. It made me realize, I have a chance to do something special, and I need to take advantage of it.
It's fun playing Oregon. It's an up-tempo game. Hopefully, we'll make some shots.
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.
It would have been really special if he had come here. We would have been really good.
I've seen where you can score 35 in two games in a row, and once you lose, you can't get it.
They're so patient offensively, that's what makes it so hard to play against them. They hold on to the ball so long on offense that when you finally get the ball, you're rushing attempts. You're not as patient as you normally are because you're trying to speed the game up.
They're so experienced and so talented. We're definitely going to need them to make some mistakes to win.
They're going to stay packed in and try to force you to make jump shots. That's something we've been working on all week, going against a zone and a sagging man-to-man and making sure we still penetrate and don't just settle for outside shots.
They're on TV a lot. We have watched them all season long. I know their starting five. I know guys off their bench. I know their team.
There's always a weakness in every team. They have had a lot of games this season where they are down 15 and they come back. That just shows how dominating of a team they are, and it also shows that sometimes they are less focused for 40 minutes. That may leave the door open for us.
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.
That really made us feel like we had a chance to win the game.
Everyone's a Gonzaga now. Everyone has a chance to beat us.