Chris Duhon
Chris Duhon
Chris Nicholas Duhonis an American former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team. Duhon was a point guard for the Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team from 2000 to 2004. He then played for the Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks, Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers. Fellow basketball player Jarrett Jack is his cousin...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth31 August 1982
CityMamou, LA
feet gets happened help others people situation until
It's very unfortunate what has happened there, ... It's up to me and others to help those people get back on their feet until the situation gets better.
allowed bodies compared contract floating houses mean people situation tough week
Compared to this, things like my new contract don't mean that much, ... There are bodies floating in the water. A lot of houses have been destroyed. When all of this is over in another week or so and people are allowed to go back home, what will they go back to? It's a tough situation to handle.
defense extra guess putting situations starting
Our defense has been suffocating to where we've been making them make extra passes. We've been rotating and putting them in situations where they're uncomfortable. I guess the frustration is starting to get to them a little bit.
compete fun guys loosen playing situations type understand
A lot of these guys have been in these type of situations before. We understand that we're not playing to our capabilities right now. We just have to all come out, loosen up, have fun and go out there and compete every night.
expecting gives opportunity
Everyone is expecting us to lose. It just relaxes us and gives us an opportunity to go and play our game.
discourage focused plenty shot thinking time
I'm not thinking anything, I'm just concentrating on the shot. I had plenty of time to see the rim when I was going there. I didn't want him to discourage my shot in any way. If he's going to make a play, he's going to have to make a spectacular play. So I just focused on the shot and let it go.
beat definitely division good plays start team
It's definitely a good start to beat a team in our division that plays well at home.
close control games lost ourselves redeem slip
It's been frustrating. We've lost so many close games we should have won, games that we had control of and let slip away. So we have 14 games to kind of redeem ourselves and get into the playoffs.
point
It's better, but it's still not at the point where it would make sense to try and play.
defense guys hurting needs tidy
Their other guys are really hurting us right now. Our defense is not really where it needs to be. We have to tidy things up.
control effort foul four people sees successful team three time
We've been successful because he sees three or four people every time he penetrates. So, every time he penetrates, it's going to take a team effort to control him and keep him off the foul line.
felt importance knew played relaxed
We just played our game. We knew the importance of this and we felt that they had all the pressure. We knew that we could come out, be relaxed and play our game.
bring capable coach effort full games given needs shows sustaining
Tonight, we really showed what we're capable of. It shows that we haven't given our full effort all year. Some games we bring it and some we don't. Sustaining that effort is big for this team. Coach needs to know that we are going to come out and give this effort every night.
caught easily loose test thinks
This was a big test for us. Everyone thinks you're going to win, and you can easily get caught up into that and play a loose game. It was important for us to come out focused.