Chris Bosh
Chris Bosh
Christopher Wesson Boshis an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. A high school "Mr. Basketball" in Texas, Bosh left college at Georgia Tech after one season with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball team to enter the 2003 NBA draft. He was selected fourth overall by the Toronto Raptors in a very competitive draft class that included multiple future NBA superstars such as LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Carmelo Anthony. While at...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth24 March 1984
CityDallas, TX
We were just watching him shoot. He takes the type of shots where you don't think they're going in, but suddenly he's rolling, so he's kind of hard to stop. We tried three or four guys on him, but it seemed like nobody guarded him tonight.
We didn't come out with any energy. We know we're not good enough to let the game come to us. We have to come with high energy, play hard team basketball and do everything the right way. Coming into the season, we all knew we didn't have too much room for error.
We play in our position. If we're tied, we play like we're tied; if we're behind, we play like we're behind. We don't have a constant intensity and that's what we have to keep working on. We've got to learn.
We definitely have to shoot our free throws better because if make our free throws it's a little different ballgame.
We work off of each other very well. He can shoot and I can shoot and he crashes the boards and does a good job of playing aggressively and cleaning up some of our misses.
That's when my thoughts started to change, and I continued to talk to Bryan, and we developed our relationship we have now. He said 'I think I have a good reputation and I don't want to change that.' He doesn't want to ruin his name by not making this franchise better.
That's free points. You're going to have to reward yourself for taking it hard to the lane and putting pressure on their big guys, putting them in foul trouble and making them pay.
You play anybody and if they shoot 70 per cent from three, they're going to be tough to beat.
They executed well, they made a bunch of tough shots. When you play a team like that, you look at them, and you can learn a lot.
They play pretty good without Iverson. They have a lot of guys who really step up to the plate and accept that challenge without him. It's still really a good team without him.
The whole coaching staff talked about going to the line as much as possible, taking advantage of the mismatches and getting to the free-throw line. Whenever we play unselfish at home or on the road, we are a tough team to beat. When we play unselfish, we play better defense and we move the ball and play better offense.
The mood always lightens after a win. People are nicer, the food tastes better, practice is a lot more fun,
Coach ( Sam Mitchell ) told us at the half that they (Charlotte) seem to want the game more than us, and we came out in the second half with more intensity.
After the first quarter, we look up at the score and we hear the fans getting on us, that's when we come to play harder. But we have to play like that in the first quarter.