Chauncey Billups
Chauncey Billups
Chauncey Ray Billupsis an American retired professional basketball player who played 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association. A star at the University of Colorado, he was selected third overall in the 1997 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics. A five-time NBA All-Star and a three-time All-NBA selection, Billups played for the Celtics, Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks, and Los Angeles Clippers during his NBA career. He won the NBA Finals MVP in 2004...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth25 September 1976
CityDenver, CO
It's a lot of fun to play in this building. It's been a long time since we've had that college-game feeling. A standing-room crowd. The fans didn't sit down until they scored the first basket. You don't see that in the pro game.
They've got a really good team. They're deep, they play hard, and they've got a lot of great shooters. If they get that three-ball going, they're tough. There are a lot of different situations we've got to be aware of.
We're just an entirely different team in the fourth quarter. We're so mentally tough and we've seen every different situation so many times that when we face something, we know which way to attack it.
We're battle tested. We're been in that situation so many times. We just had our confidence.
Winning 63 games is unbelievable. Of course, I've never been in a situation like that, so it feels great. I've been on the other end, winning 23 or 25 games. It's unbelievable to feel that way, to feel like you're going to win every time you step out there - and most nights, you do.
Larry is great and made a difference on our team, ... But I think we were great before he got here. We may have made the Finals the year before Larry got here, but I was injured. He came into a good situation and he made us better. It is going to be our chance to show we have a great team.
We take nothing from this. We're lucky that we've got a game tomorrow so we don't have to sit too long on it. It'll give us a chance to start a new streak at home.
I'm sure they get up to play us. Anytime you have the best team in the league coming into your building, you know that's the case.
I'm sure he was probably a little frustrated. When you're a good team, you expect to win, and when you don't, you do something you might not be prone to doing.
I knew it would be tough. I didn't know it would be this tough. I didn't know they would struggle this bad with the players that they have ... I don't know how it's going to work out this year, but they're going to be all right. They've just got to be patient.
I knew it was going to be tough. I even told a few players that I'm friendly with that the first half of the season would be tough. Just getting to know what (Larry) likes, getting used to how he coaches. But I didn't know it was going to be this tough. I didn't know they'd struggle this bad with the players they have. They've got some great talent on that team.
I like games like this much better than the ones we win by 10, 15 or 20 points. I don't like playing games like that.
I like Flip because Flip is an offensive-minded coach,
The bench was big, no doubt about it. All those guys played great tonight. We're going to need that from them in the playoffs.