Carlos Arroyo
Carlos Arroyo
Carlos Alberto Arroyo Bermúdez is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player who last played for FC Barcelona Lassa of the Liga ACB. Arroyo had previously played in the National Basketball Association with the Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, Miami Heat, and Boston Celtics. In the 2008–09 season, he played for Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Israeli Basketball Super League, winning the league's championship, and being named the Final's Most Valuable Player. He has also played...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth30 July 1979
CityFajardo, PR
In the first quarter we were a little slow to get into our motion. Our job is to come off the bench and provide energy.
I didn't think it was going to be kind of weird, but it (was). I was having fun. I love those guys and I miss them.
We beat Dallas at home. Hopefully we'll have a game like we did against Dallas. We're looking forward to playing a team like that. It gives us an opportunity to know where we're at as a team, how much we've grown, and where our confidence level is.
We're playing our best basketball right now. We're playing together. That's the main thing.
I think the energy we play with at home, we need to bring that on the road. That's what it's all about.
I think we stayed hungry. But ... we can't put ourselves in a position to be down 20 (points) to be able to start playing basketball.
He has a smile almost every day, and just his game speaks for himself. You can tell he's having a great time.
My situation couldn't get any worse in Detroit. I was playing what, six minutes? I was just there. I was a little annoyed, you know? But I got through it. Our job is to maintain ourselves ready to play, take advantage whenever called. Hopefully I will get that opportunity here.
I wish it never happened. Not so much for myself - I can handle it on my own - but it involves my family. They're trying to adapt to a new city. Now that I have a daughter, it's way different. That's the sad thing about the whole thing. You leave friends and people you're really close to behind.
I think just looking back at this game, we all have to sit down and think about the energy level that we brought out the second half of the game. We're the underdog every game now and we just have to bring that energy out with us every game from the beginning.
We needed to come together at the end and we did. We helped each other on defense. We were up 20 once, but the most important thing was we came away with the victory.
We got the monkey off our back. It feels great.
I saw an opening and I took it. It was important for us to get a win like this. Every time we win one like this it makes us stronger for the future.
This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great.