Carmelo Anthony
Carmelo Anthony
Carmelo Kyam Anthony is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association. Anthony attended Towson Catholic High School and Oak Hill Academy before playing college basketball at Syracuse. In Anthony's freshman season, he led the Orangemen to their first ever National Championship and was named the NCAA Tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Anthony then entered the 2003 NBA draft where he was selected with the third overall pick by the Denver Nuggets...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth29 May 1984
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
We have seven games on the road coming up. If we can win at least five of those games on this trip, it will define us as a team.
We knew that it was a division game and we wanted to win it and we showed that.
Tonight we stuck to our game plan which was to get out in the open court. We just needed to get back to playing basketball and having fun.
I think in certain situations last year and the year before last I would have tried to take that shot with three people on me. But I've seen even if I don't shoot the ball to win the game, I can win the game by passing it out of a double team.
I think we just came together seeing we were down. We couldn't lose our first game after the (All-Star) break so we had to focus in and we did a good job of that.
I was edgy my first two games just to get out there and start my career. You saw me settle down more than I did the first two games.
We knew they were going to make a run but we kept our composure and finished off the game. It was a great game out there.
We have to keep shooting. We had our bad shooting game out there tonight. So we are bound to have a good shooting night.
I wasn't going to miss no time, not in a game like that.
We can build some confidence and we can build off the way we played in the first three quarters. We ran pretty well tonight. Maybe not as well as we wanted to, but we ran pretty well. Next game we can go out and try to do a couple of more things than we did.
I'm feeling really good about our chances in the series. Me knowing how much fight I have in me and how much fight we have as a team. We always rebound. We're not going to steal Game Two; we're going to earn the win.
I knew they were going to double- team, triple-team me. I was missing shots that I would never miss. Shots that I have to take. Shots around the basket. . . . That was their game plan. They want somebody else to beat them.
I'm just playing my game and not worrying about who we're playing against. It's nice to come home and show the fans what we've been doing on the road. We've been playing well, especially the past eight games or so.
The whole series was kind of an embarrassing moment. They didn't just beat us by two or three points in the games they won. They beat us by, like, 20. That's embarrassing.